Thread: What Should be Taught in Schools?
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Unread 13 Aug 2007, 16:34   #13
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Re: What Should be Taught in Schools?
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Originally Posted by Tietäjä
Maths is sort of double-edged. Some will be needing it a lot, some won't. Also, it'll be piss impossible for some people to understand a bit of, so I guess for "mandatory" education maths is only necessary on low levels. I'll skip the science part. Also, I'll skip the art and drama because they're bullshit too. (People who are really interested in art history or how to paint penguins better will do it irregardless, most people gain little from these).
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its nothing to do with 'needing it', the whole "maths as practical" philosophy is the reason why school maths classes are so mindnumbingly boring and why most of the population hates maths. It should be taught as an artform with emphasis placed on the more logical/intuitive/beautiful aspects of pure maths rather than forcing students to memorise forumlae and solve word problems until they never want to look at a polynomial again.

A good highschool maths class imo would focus around basic number theory which everyone can understand and appreciate (starting with stuff like proofs that root(2) is irrational and that theres no greatest prime number etc), before moving the students who are interested onto slightly more advanced number theory and introducing deeper/wonderful topics which dont need that much prior background to understand, like Turing machines and the halting problem, Mandelbrot sets, Cantor and infinity, philosophy of the axiom of choice, and so on.
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