“I’m trying to avoid showing The Steps and instead show them enough of The Idea that they can reconstruct what the steps MUST be. Many students want to know the formulas, so that they can float them on top of their short-term memory, ace the exam, and then skim them off. Why do they want to know that? Probably because, for their entire mathematical careers, math has been a sequence of Steps, and if they get them wrong, they get red pen, bad grades, No No No Look What You Did. Plus, bonus, there is no apparent relevance of these algorithms other than To Get The Answer.”
The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics – Technoccult interviews Tom Henderson | Technoccult
Tom ‘mathpunk’ Henderson on why an understanding of mathematics stacks the odds of life in your favour, how he attempts to communicate this, and how our ‘how-to’ culture may have been fostered in the maths classroom. ‘The Steps’ are to be avoided at all costs.
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