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How to Teach Maths

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Mathematicians - It's Mass Time!

When i was yong, my dad would give me maths to do as a treat. I didn't know any bettert but it means that when i shut up at school, i'm like, all right, it's mass time. And id my first emotional opinion was i preferred addition to subtraction. As i went through and changed all the subtraction signs into plus signs, and i go this easy fix. It's a self filling prophecy, almost. Still, everyone finds mass difficult. That's the kind of the secret of mathematicians, massed people aren't people who find masts easy. They just enjoy the fact they have to wrestle with it until they learn it.

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