I think Americans hate learning math concepts by doing 100s of practice problems.They want to just "get" it via 1 example, then use computer
@kragen I didn't say lots of easy. That doesn't work for anything. Math training is progressive difficulty usually.
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@vgr Oh, in that case I agree — hundreds of *different* problems, each a little harder than the last? That's ideal. -
@kragen yeah, look at the books of S. L. Loney (Brit) and I. E. Irodov (Russian) for the sorts of math regimens classmates and I trained on - 4 more replies
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