I want a culture of “cool” that’s all optimism & wonder — super compatible with & at least partially enabled by the presence of children. The joy of being with someone as they experience something incredible for the first time works against the insidious creeping banality of lifehttps://twitter.com/Halikaarn1an/status/1100164836355264512 …
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The irony is that it’s hard to convince my kids.
Totally get this. Sometimes I think I sound too reverent of kids, who are obviously messy & immature human beings... but I also think some pernicious societal norms constrain kids’ ability to do the incredibly fast-paced learning + practice they’re biologically compelled to do
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It just underscores your point. When my kids were young they loved being able to add large numbers in their heads. Now that they are teens they doubt that math could possibly be awesome. Something happens along the way and I hope to help them unlearn whatever that was.
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Today I showed my son how move between the algebraic and graphical versions of standard xforms (translate/scale/reflect). Now he can look at a linear or quadratic equation like y = -3(x-2)^2 - 5 and draw it. He'd never admit it but it clicked and he was excited.
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