Imagine if every student in America had access to Jon Rappoport's three courses. A non-painful and immensely more useful alternative to math classes (aside from the basics).
Back in the day, in the 60s and 70s when there was an earlier version of "new math", I often "translated" what the teacher/textbooks were saying so that some of the other students, who didn't "get it", could come to understand the material, and how to "get from A to B".
I took great delight in correcting the teacher's test answers in my 9th-grade Algebra class. The other students enjoyed that too, especially those that the teacher said had gotten the answer wrong. Oops, they got it right, the teacher didn't.
So much of "math" involves having the right teacher, the right textbook, or ideally both. And if not, someone to help "translate". A textbook from a different author can serve that role too.
In contrast, my college Statistics teacher was horrid, and insisted we use the textbook she had written which was likewise horrid.
I think it is important for people to learn math, not because they will utilize trigonometry and the rest in their adult lives, but rather as an exercise to sharpen/train the mind to analyze using logic and reason.
Imagine if every student in America had access to Jon Rappoport's three courses. A non-painful and immensely more useful alternative to math classes (aside from the basics).
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Back in the day, in the 60s and 70s when there was an earlier version of "new math", I often "translated" what the teacher/textbooks were saying so that some of the other students, who didn't "get it", could come to understand the material, and how to "get from A to B".
I took great delight in correcting the teacher's test answers in my 9th-grade Algebra class. The other students enjoyed that too, especially those that the teacher said had gotten the answer wrong. Oops, they got it right, the teacher didn't.
So much of "math" involves having the right teacher, the right textbook, or ideally both. And if not, someone to help "translate". A textbook from a different author can serve that role too.
In contrast, my college Statistics teacher was horrid, and insisted we use the textbook she had written which was likewise horrid.
I think it is important for people to learn math, not because they will utilize trigonometry and the rest in their adult lives, but rather as an exercise to sharpen/train the mind to analyze using logic and reason.