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by jeffsco 3884 days ago
I was taught the "New Math" as a child and did not hate it. It was wonderful. When I look at math blogs today, they use notation and terminology I learned back then. This is a tremendous advantage (or so it seems to me).
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And everyone else just curses when they open a Wikipedia article for smth that is supposedly (and actually) not that complex, but is explained in those terms, still :)
This is a big problem in my opinion. I read a blog post recently that kind of discussed it: http://rajlaboratory.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-over-mathificat...

Wikipedia should be a resource for the average layman, not mathematically mature individuals who comprise the minority.