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by azmodeus 566 days ago
practicing computation is important in math education, I think Eastern Europeans and Asians often have an advantage due to working through 5-10K problems / year
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> practicing computation is important in math education

no, 100% no on this -- we have computers that can compute for us, and we have since the 50s

the problem that this company is perpetuating is the idea that humans need to learn how to compute, we don't

we need to learn how to identify that a problem we're facing has a mathematical solution and how to translate the problem into an equation that a computer can solve for us