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

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669 points sonabinu | 3 comments | 21 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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ChaitanyaSai ◴[21 Nov 24 10:25 UTC] No.42202829[source]▶
"mathematics is a game of back-and-forth between intuition and logic" I teach/guide Math at our school (we run a small school and currently have kids under age 10) and this is so so true.

I just wrote about this. In fact, you can even see this at play in the video of the kids talking https://blog.comini.in/p/what-happens-in-math-class

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1. rnewme ◴[21 Nov 24 11:06 UTC] No.42203089[source]▶
This was a very tiring blog post for me. And I have a quip about posts that open with questions but close without obvious definite answer, no matter how simple it is.
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2. ChaitanyaSai ◴[21 Nov 24 11:55 UTC] No.42203419[source]▶
Tiring because the answer wasn't revealed? That was the whole point :) It's the path, not the summit.
3. GrantMoyer ◴[21 Nov 24 13:51 UTC] No.42204284[source]▶
Does the quip have to do with someone asking what the quip is?