You should be commended for an honest question, but why the hell are you home schooling your kid if you have no idea what you're doing? That's child abuse.
Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
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Re: Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
#22Teach math and CS anyway.
It's better to learn commutativity with "integer" than with "simple groups". You hand needs to know how to do the operation to get intuition to understand what the computer is showing in the screen.
You can probably drop long division, like we dropped long square root a long time ago. They are nice algorithms, so it's nice to revisit them if he is interested when he is a grow up. (Even logarithm tables and slider rules are interesting, but not for everyday use.)
Long sum and long multiplication are too important, don't drop them, probably only for 3x3 digits. Left the 17x16 digits cse for the computer.
Approximation is super important but super hard. I've seen a few attempt to teach that to 7 y.o. kids, but I think in most cases small kids should learn exact calculation that are easier.
Re: Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough, but I fear the necessary foundational knowledge becomes smaller and smaller as LLMs get better.
I don't think this is true. For math, even with an LLM, you need to know how to ask the question properly to get a good answer. If you don't know the basics you'll end up talking in circles to describe what should be a pretty basic problem. Instead of 120/6, you'd end up writing, "I'm on lunch with a few friends, we got the bill and it was $120. There are 6 of us here. How much should each of us pay if we want to spl…
That's fair, thanks for your thoughts.