> > What a lot of math learners fail to understand is that grinding through concrete examples imbues you with intuition that you will not get if you jump directly to studying the most abstract ideas.
> I feel that's more a lesson for a lot of math teachers to understand.
That's certainly true, but the teachers who teach that way were probably once students who tried to learn that way (I was one on both counts, though I got better), and it'll be better for them as teachers if they learn the lesson as students.
> I feel that's more a lesson for a lot of math teachers to understand.
That's certainly true, but the teachers who teach that way were probably once students who tried to learn that way (I was one on both counts, though I got better), and it'll be better for them as teachers if they learn the lesson as students.