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(this post is a continuation of yesterday’s post - Why do we have to show the work?)
This youtube video is by a woman with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism). Her observations are very insightful. I encourage you to watch it in the entirety, because she covers a lot of interesting points that are not limited to [...] It’s a control issue; pure and simple. They will not give it up. They will not admit it. They will not even face it themselves or even consider that it might be true. They feel threatened, and they will use every bit of rhetoric and rationalization they can dredge up to try to legitimize [...] Many mathematicians and some math educators are aware that a lot of the stuff that passes for “math” in schools is simply number manipulation, or rote memory of math “facts.” [...] |
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