Basically saying that, yes, schools teach math wrong and give everyone the wrong idea about what math is and why it exists And that forcing math down kids' throats as facts and procedures to memorize gives them a totally wrong idea about it
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A *lot* like if we taught music and art by saying "This is what a painting is supposed to look like! We discovered that in 1519!" "This is what jazz is supposed to sound like! We discovered that in 1943!" and then just made you carefully copy someone else's work
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The actual answers to your questions take a long time to learn, in the same way that a musician explaining in words "What makes this chord the right one to play at this point in the song?" would take a while But it's a very worthy question, it's the whole point
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And I think Lockhart does a really good job of at least getting across to non-math people - like me - how the way he thinks about math is all about those questions and it's night and day from the stuff bad math classes make you think math is about
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(Kind of like how you'll find a lot of professional authors, including really famous ones whose books are taught in school, who don't have much nice to say about their 7th grade English lit classes)
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I appreciate she's asking questions about the topic. I don't understand math at all, never did, and I counted myself lucky to pass math with a C-. I hated it all with the burning intensity of a thousand white-hot suns
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to me, it was all... blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blahpic.twitter.com/Ig2iwKz9BL
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The PBS Idea Channel episode about it seem pretty accessible.https://youtu.be/TbNymweHW4E
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Really not true at all.
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