[latexr]

I remember a teacher in ninth grade warning students who up to that point found maths to be easy without studying: that would no longer be the case. From anecdotal memory, I think what happened was a shift from real problems to abstract concepts. Up until then maths problems had been rooted in the real world and could be solved with logic, but suddenly there were graphs and asymptotes and cosines and a bunch of other stuff without a clear connection to their usefulness to the world.

High school teachers didn’t fare better. One of them, when we were learning statistics, said there was no way we’d be able to complete the given homework on our own without a tutor. On the contrary, it was the most enjoyable and approachable maths had been for years. Finally something which connected to the real world again.

In retrospect, I think I had a string of mediocre teachers which sapped my excitement. As an adult I watched two second gif loops which clicked in my head ideas which weren’t made clear by previous explanations.

To answer your question, I’d be interested in analytic geometry and any concepts which would related to computer graphics.

Where would you post? Is there a feed we could subscribe to?

[wadd1e]

>From anecdotal memory, I think what happened was a shift from real problems to abstract concepts

Funnily enough, I am the exact opposite; I struggle with statistics and mechanics since they are very linked to the real world and I seem to thrive in understanding abstract ideas. The more abstract, the better :)

I like to think of abstract mathematics as a bunch of code in a library, the code on it's own is vast and has no real purpose when it is standalone, but it becomes immediately useful when a program with a purpose uses it in tangible ways. I would definitely love to make abstract mathematics make sense as a part of the project.

>To answer your question, I’d be interested in analytic geometry and similar concepts which would related to computer graphics.

Those are good suggestions that I didn't think about at first; function transformations and polar coordinates are definitely worth exploring, and a lot of computer graphics involves calculus and linear algebra that I do plan on covering already.

>Where would you post? Is there a feed we could subscribe to?

Still figuring details out, but probably on my .github.io domain(and if the project receives enough attention, I might move it onto it's own domain) and I'll likely use an email based system or an RSS feed after I tackle the "make good learning resources" problem.