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Is Doing Math Enough?

1 pointsby 3h agoclarified.life
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2h agoHN ↗

Math did not occur to me until after 30.

I was mathematically unengaged in formative years.

Math is not about numbers, math is about surface areas, proportion relationships, magnitudes, and translation between bases.

YouTube opens the gates, allows everyone to see the abstract applications applied visually over time.

Consider learning Fourier transforms or other signal processing twenty years ago. Go watch a video. Oh, that’s the math? Got it, thanks, the math is a short foreign phrase to express an extradimentional relationship.

The extradimentional relationship is the “think about it” this article wonders where young minds might begin.

Yeah, let’s get them all thinking extradimentionally.