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Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking

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669 points sonabinu | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source
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tracerbulletx ◴[21 Nov 24 04:57 UTC] No.42201269[source]▶
A nice sentiment but clearly a large % of people never do learn even basic mathematical thinking and seem very confused by it. So is there some scientific study backing up the claim that all these people could easily learn it or are we just making it up because its a nice egalitarian thesis for a math popularization book?
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1. barrenko ◴[21 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42202246[source]▶
We are not really taught (thought) to think, we are taught to memorize. Until one actually tries to think, you really can't tell if they're able to do it.