I gotta say....

[conuly]

This is the first time I've ever been in the math debates against a guy who thinks kids spend too much time on the procedure and not enough on the conceptual. (Though he also wants them to spend more time on the procedure. There's no winning with this dude.)

Suffice to say, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. You'd think he'd figure that out at some point and shut up, but nooooooooooooo.

Edit: And we can add child development to the list of things he doesn't understand.

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Comments

[lusentoj]

Wow, you end up running across a lot of people to argue with lol (unless it's all the same people...!)

[conuly]

I've been in a really, really cranky mood these past few days and have expended my energy on reddit. Like, a lot.

[adrian_turtle]

Why, WHY, do people think everybody has to learn math the same way? With some students, the abstract conceptual stuff only snaps into focus after they go through the process enough times to see a pattern for themselves. With others, they can't do anything with the process until they know something about the abstract concept to point them in the right direction.

[fred_mouse]

This.

Also, the assumption that one has to start with a visualisation and then work towards the abstract, which is how I was taught a lot of the time. I'm a mathematician, but I got through year 12 geometry by rote learning bits, because I had no understanding of how it worked, because the simpler versions were all taught visually, and I couldn't do the diagrams for the more complicated.