Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
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Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
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Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#2“Me before #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I know Haskell
Me after #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I knit”
Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
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Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#4Appslure is a Brilliant mobile Application Development Company in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and Mumbai. Our app developers team are expert in iOS, android, iPhone and iPad app development. For more visit on- http://www.appslure.com/
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Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#5Appslure is a Brilliant mobile Application Development Company in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and Mumbai. Our app developers team are expert in iOS, android, iPhone and iPad app development. For more visit on- http://www.appslure.com/
which growth hacking strategy is this?
Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#6While I will agree America’s math curriculum is a giant turd, this is simultaneously the common fallacy of a smart person thinking that more people would give a crap about their field if it were taught with more metaphors in it. For example, there’s no point whatsoever in teaching topology to anyone but people with a serious interest in math who are proficient in calculus and elementary analysis
Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#7I knew a grad student who used a ball of yarn to learn knot theory.
Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#8“Me before #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I know Haskell Me after #strangeloop: I'm not a real programmer unless I knit” https://twitter.com/adam_chal/status/914207020215042048
Same, but #joyofcoding. And apparently, Jon Skeet agrees[0].
Re: Learning advanced math by drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting
#9I knew a grad student who used a ball of yarn to learn knot theory.
It is quite interesting how our brains tend to deny the role of the rest of our body in the process of thinking. After seeing Alan Kay's "Doing With Images Makes Symbols", and his TED Talk "a poweful idea about ideas", I realised how silly that line of thinking was[0].
Using the right things to fiddle with physical manifestations of an idea lets "my hands" think along the more "abstract" parts of my brain. And doing that kind of parallel work is actually very useful.
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#10Is there a book full of this type of stuff that would be useful with young children?