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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

argondamn posted:

when i was in elementary school and they introduced fractions i had a hard time remembering if the numerator was on top or bottom.

I've taught kids in elementary school who were somewhat baffled trying to get half of an odd number. In some cases they could visually do it, but they couldn't tell you the right answer since they'd never seen that combination in fractions before.

I've also taught middle schoolers who assumed X or X^2 meant 0X or 0X^2 (which obviously fucks up the quadratic equation).

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Frankly, rather than teaching proofs directly, kids might be more receptive to basic Symbolic Logic and then transitioning that into proofs.

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