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Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma'
I teach people how to teach math, and I've been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I've met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it comes to doing mathematics.
When people share their stories with me, there are common themes. These include someone telling them they were "not good at math," panicking over timed math tests, or getting stuck on some math topic and struggling to move past it. The topics can be as broad as fractions or an entire class, such as Algebra or Geometry.
[...] One of the biggest challenges U.S. math educators face is helping the large number of elementary teachers who are dealing with math trauma. Imagine being tasked with teaching children mathematics when it is one of your greatest personal fears.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday November 05 2018, @03:22PM (2 children)
I've always seen mathematical induction over the integers as being a for-loop in a proof.
There's a remarkable correspondence between proofs and programs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @04:35PM (1 child)
And there should be a lot of similarity, proofs are what you do if you need to know that the program is correct over whatever set of inputs you need to run it on. For many programs that's overkill, but if you're wanting to make sure that your plane doesn't kill people from above, that's the kind of thing you do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @11:03PM
And even if you do!! Military need those.