I think this article - "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart - is something everyone should read Not exactly an answer to your questions and not exactly aimed at math beginners, unfortunately, but it's a really engaging rant about this topic https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf …https://twitter.com/graciegcunning/status/1298804338727489536 …
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And Lockhart is just like "Well they can't Most people don't remember how to do any of that shit after they're out of school for like two years It's a total fucking waste of time and money already so why yell at me that my version of math education is 'impractical'"
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"The kids are right, most of them are just going to become English majors and rely on a calculator"
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I think it's likely my math education was really, really, shitty and I had zero support
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Hell, I'm a maths graduate, and I'm not sure I could work that out using the traditional method. (I could do it by an iterative process, mind. "OK, I know 27/10 is a decent approximation, so 70/27 must also be, and their average will be better...")
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