/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8931263
>...maths is taught at school so that students would learn math. This is false.

I think it may be sufficient to support the claim that
>math ought to be taught at school so that students learn math.

I'm this guy >>8931963 so you can see how I feel about V. I. Arnold.


>>8931459
Multiplication tables, drills, and exercises do not teach math.

Math is about understanding concepts, not about working out computations.

>I would like to see more of the equivalent of creative writing in math
There is some writing on the subject, particularly in the context of proof writing.
>where the student is not only fed word problems, but encouraged to invent their own scenarios where math would be useful and then do the math for them.
There is also writing on this subject but it has very little to do with math.

>>8931204
I agree to some extent in the sense that I believe most math books out there attempt to do this. However I disagree in the sense that I don't believe many math books actually achieve this. Instead what you get are books that are too wordy and informal to be clear and too terse and formal to be interesting.

>>8931935
>...of 1000 different methods to """intuitively""" understand computations.
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If Common Core focused on math instead of computations it would be this.

>>8930796
Another great book to check out is Ralph Abraham's
Dynamics: The Geometry Of Behavior.
The book uses a novel style that focuses primarily on images in a sequential explanatory style to give an intuition for Dynamics concepts (particularly differential equations, though Ralph has other literature on Chaos Theory and other areas of Dynamics).

>>8930959
>I read the entire thing.
Actually you only read a short 25 page essay which was later expanded into an entire book.

Also, he is a teacher.
http://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_03_08.html

>>8931979
GEB is a shit-tier pop-sci book and you are a retard for thinking it has anything to do with this.