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'm actually kind of serious, like when I was in high school the LA Times ran a story called "Should Math Become an Elective?"
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Highlighting stories like a high school girl who's brilliant at every subject that has no quantitative component, but "Math is ruining my life" She's on the brink of flunking Algebra 2 and having to repeat it, her math scores on the SAT are dragging her down
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