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School is just one simplification after the other (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by illectrility@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] plistig@feddit.de 63 points 2 years ago (4 children)

To learn to count to 10, we first have to understand quaternions.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The fundamentals of math takes like 700 pages before it gets to 1+1=2

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah, time to stop coddling those kindergarteners!

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Depends into how much detail you go.

My prof. at uni. did a nice summary in two and a half pages.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago*

Building axioms from the ground up, with proofs

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

You blew right by creating the universe first. Your apple pies probably come out terrible.

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[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

Can you really talk about 1 or 2 before giving a proper set-theoretic construction of the natural numbers?

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[–] odium@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Come on, that's way too complex. But how can one count to 10 if they don't know what base to count to 10 in? We should definitely teach them bases first.

Base 11, base 12, and base 16 are all better number systems to teach first imo. A prime number has some benefits when it comes to fractions, but so does a number like 12 which is divisible by many other numbers. Base 16 is useful as you can easily convert between that and the other bases of powers of 2.

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