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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I don't think I could even tell you what a square root is.
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Anyway, so my big math education story: I nearly failed algebra. I go to my mother and point this out and say I don't understand it at all. She shrugs and says "you'll do better at geometry, you're a visual learner like me, that'll make sense to you!" Narrator: it didn't
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And they'll say "Don't give me that shit about how Mozart played games with music and how Duke Ellington etc built a whole tradition around improvising etc Most kids aren't geniuses For most of them sight reading their way through Für Elise is the best they'll ever do"
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And it's like okay Well why do that then If a creaky, mechanical interpretation of Für Elise is the best they can do why make them do it at all What the fuck is the point of having 10,000 kids play a horrible butchered version of the same great piece of music every year
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