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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Math pedagogy at the K-12 level in the US is TERRIBLE, it turns a lot of kids off of math forever for absolutely no fucking reason, and it's not good at teaching ANY actual SKILLS like abstraction or back-of-the-envelope approximations. These are all MAJOR FLAWS.
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Yeah the state of math education has far, far too many people who report that 1) they remember nothing of it and gained nothing from it whatsoever, and 2) they remember it as one of the most painful and tedious experiences of their entire lives for it to be acceptable
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