I know it sounds ridiculous, but do you ever wonder if school level maths was called something else (maybe Arithmetic but I know it involves more than that) and then maybe starting age 12 you got proper maths lessons more focused on understanding theoretical mathematics than on simply learning and applying algorithms?
Or you could put it together as a group, maths, formal logic and philosophy. I feel like when I was in school no-one really told me what maths was and if I knew I'd have been a lot more excited about it. The most exciting thing I did in maths class was have a race with the boy next to me to get through the problems the fastest. I mean all the useful facts and algorithms are important, but they didn't really have much to do with mathematics. When I was in university I got really interested in mathematical constructivism and I felt like I really did myself a disservice by not doing maths after age 16 which I think I would have if anyone had told me what it was.
Submitted February 22, 2018 at 07:07AM by your_mom_on_drugs http://ift.tt/2ELGkxd
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