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by vector_spaces
1104 days ago
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I guess first consider that you might have math trauma -- read about it, own it (if it applies, of course), and recognize what it feels like when it rears its head. Lots of people -- mainly in the US, but it's a thing in other countries too -- were taught math in a pretty shitty way, often by people who don't want to be teaching it in the first place because they themselves have math trauma. Then build up fluency in the basic manipulations: do lots and lots and lots of exercises until those manipulations become second nature. You might need to start with fractions[2], and that's fine. One of the nice things about math at the elementary level is that you nearly always are guaranteed to get better with practice. This absolutely isn't the case for proof-based math, where you really need to be intentional about truly digesting the material and thinking careful about the ideas. But if you're shaky on absolute fundamentals, you can get incredibly far with grinding. At some point you'll need to engage with the ideas, but I think that's easier once you've built up some pattern recognition. But others will (surely) disagree [1] https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-how-to-help... [2] https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/fraction-phobia-the... |
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