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by unicornfork 1069 days ago
Also why math is never an experiment apart from geometry? For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses. The small difference between resulting numbers in class and yet their closeness to 1/2 should make this day a success for a teacher.
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> For example one could easily do the coin toss and write down the actual 1s and 0s coming out of the tosses

This is a really common teaching activity for the topic.

It's not that maths is 'never an experiment', but that people make uninformed assumptions about what maths education involves.