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1 - Alex Kontorovich: Improving math

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Is There a Risk of Drilling on Multiplication Tables?

There's a risk that, by service of trying to make things easier for people, by having them just drill on their multiplication tables or their fraction division, they lose sight of what it's actually supposed to mean. You need both fluency and deep understanding in order to move forward with math. As early as possible you have to build up an understanding of numbers before you build up algebra,. Before you bild up geometry, trigonometry and so on. And the more calculations you've done, the more intuition build. It's like the more intuition you have, the easier it'll be to do a calculation. There's all this stuff that's happened as far as what it feels like...

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