Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
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Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
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Re: Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
#2I have no doubt they can. There's so much negative cultural conditioning towards mathematics by eliciting negative emotions that it's ridiculous (i.e. math is scary, math is hard, math is for smart people, etc.). I believe kids who excel at math is not due to them being smarter but due to the bypassing of the cultural conditioning. The bypassing can be due to the parents, teachers, some mentor, or their particular fascination for a math subject.
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#3I'm not even sure.. arithmetic really needs learned as much anymore... as a dev I rarely use my times table... if I need to calculate something I'll pull up a console and go into a repl and just ask php or ruby to calculate it for me...
I know HOW the calculation works and why, but I don't need to know and remember times tables. I like the idea of thinking outside the box on how to teach math and science, as I feel modern schools were built with factories and the industrial complex in mind, not technology, arts, and sciences.
Re: Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
#4I have no doubt they can. There's so much negative cultural conditioning towards mathematics by eliciting negative emotions that it's ridiculous (i.e. math is scary, math is hard, math is for smart people, etc.). I believe kids who excel at math is not due to them being smarter but due to the bypassing of the cultural conditioning. The bypassing can be due to the parents, teachers, some mentor, or their particular fa…
I think that negative cultural conditioning is an interesting point. The same thing can be said towards statistics. However, once your own personal lens is shifted to show practical application it makes the basics easier to understand.
Re: Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
#5I'm not even sure.. arithmetic really needs learned as much anymore... as a dev I rarely use my times table... if I need to calculate something I'll pull up a console and go into a repl and just ask php or ruby to calculate it for me... I know HOW the calculation works and why, but I don't need to know and remember times tables. I like the idea of thinking outside the box on how to teach math and science, as I feel m…
The how is what is supposed to be being taught to children at the moment and why the math classes are shifting away from times tables and such. Rote memorization doesn't produce as good of a result as understanding how the calculations work on more intuitive level. I can't find it at the moment since I'm in the metro with poor connection but there was an article about how geometry was taught in such a way to teach kids to distrust their own common sense and instinct by relying on Byzantine rules from the getgo instead of letting kids naturally explore geometry and get a feel for shapes, angles, etc. (with the rules coming later)
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#7Poor child.
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#8uoaei posted the link in a comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164429
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#9Please DO NOT show this to Indian/Chinese parents. Think of the children!
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#10I have no doubt they can. There's so much negative cultural conditioning towards mathematics by eliciting negative emotions that it's ridiculous (i.e. math is scary, math is hard, math is for smart people, etc.). I believe kids who excel at math is not due to them being smarter but due to the bypassing of the cultural conditioning. The bypassing can be due to the parents, teachers, some mentor, or their particular fa…
The negative impact of a bad teacher is overwhelming. It really reflects our species' dependence on a (recently often-recorded) oral history, even in the sciences.