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Scenario

How Mathematical Wonder Gets Systematically Destroyed

I love explaining mathematical concepts to my five-year-old because she gets excited about infinity but I am dreading the day school teaches her it is just abstract nonsense.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The institutional presentation of mathematics often kills the natural philosophical curiosity that children bring to abstract concepts.

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Patan
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mathematical thinking as universal language?”

Peri

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