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
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The "100s of problems" approach is very British/European/Russian.
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What would help would be if the hundreds of practice problems were interesting in themselves.
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. I disagree. That's asking for candy for every try. Key is to get addicted to method itself, not effects or insights it produces
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Like Mathletics competitors? I think that's asking too much of the method itself.
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I mean, think of any skill you perform daily on easy problems: dialing a phone, touch-typing, crossing the street, making coffee.
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those are easy and limited in scope rather than generative in scope like math methods
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I didn't say lots of easy. That doesn't work for anything. Math training is progressive difficulty usually.
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Oh, in that case I agree — hundreds of *different* problems, each a little harder than the last? That's ideal.
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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
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yeah, they're all cheap out-of-copyright texts with 10-20% concepts, 80% exercises of increasing difficulty
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