I’ve had word problems all the way through calculus, so this connection of reality with math is not novel to me. Sorry about that. Or maybe you could use that for math education?
Lucky you:) that”s not something to be sorry about. Neither was it novel to me; but many of my acquaintances seem to take pleasure, almost pride for finally proving themselves right and their math teacher wrong, in not having to apply anything beyond arithmetics and the simplest geometry in actual life.
I kind of think that education is good, but it is ‘aggressive’ and will always remain so, and there ought to be a quiet, utterly innocuous ‘place’ in people’s lives, of simply remembering things.
I’ve had word problems all the way through calculus, so this connection of reality with math is not novel to me. Sorry about that. Or maybe you could use that for math education?
Lucky you:) that”s not something to be sorry about. Neither was it novel to me; but many of my acquaintances seem to take pleasure, almost pride for finally proving themselves right and their math teacher wrong, in not having to apply anything beyond arithmetics and the simplest geometry in actual life.
I kind of think that education is good, but it is ‘aggressive’ and will always remain so, and there ought to be a quiet, utterly innocuous ‘place’ in people’s lives, of simply remembering things.