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A video which discusses this subject and compares different schools of thought https://youtu.be/AmySxYHqQCQ




Oh god, I love that Look Around You (What are...) skit so much. It's just so incredibly silly.


I particularly like the closing comments about how we teach math. It is something of a theme that we do a bad job of explaining why math should be taught. It took me many years in academic research to realise that not only was math useful to me, but that I liked it. If we could do a better job communicating what math can do - make us rich, predict the future, win at games - maybe it would hold the attention of our students better.


Came here to post this. It's absolutely wonderful!


I'm not even epileptic, but that video felt like it would give me a seizure at any moment.




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