Many of them hate it from the getgo b/c, as some students tell me, they didn’t go into psychology to do “math”! That attitude—supported by those who decide curriculum—is precisely the problem. If you want to learn a science, you must learn and understand the tools of a scientist.https://twitter.com/mountainmums/status/1144849864771153920 …
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Been told our stats curriculum doesn’t need a refresh b/c many of our students aren’t here to be scientists and it will put them off. Just *imagine* if we treated other sciences this way. “A Brief History of Time” would be a UG physics text b/c students would *like* it more.
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Ultimately what drives this is a desire to keep UG numbers high. The fear is that students will go elsewhere if there is too much quant content even just on paper (this isn’t even getting to the issue of how it is actually taught!)
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Have you read this piece?
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ @o_guestI keep seeing people talk about maths (stats and programming too!) on Twitter and criticising how it is taught in the West, myself included — but I don't know what to do other than beg people to read: A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf … pic.twitter.com/cIGV4cXGLNShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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No, not yet, but it looks up my alley! I liked the excerpt
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Helps contextualise, in part, why people hate maths.
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or, *think* they hate math. Like how people *think* they hate aubergines :)
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