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by AnimalMuppet 1933 days ago
The thing is that visual metaphors don't scale. And when the problem gets too complicated for you to visualize it accurately, if you can't do the chain-of-steps-on-paper approach, you're stuck.

So, this approach may be fine, to get kids interested in mathematics and give them some intuition about what's going on. But an actual education can't stop there.