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saw a thing ripping at a list of pedagogical prompts which presuppose the social construction of mathematics earlier, and i want to take a minute to say that the philosophy of mathematics is weird and hard and confusing, and was an obstacle to me learning math when i was weePermalink Look on archive.org
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i found "Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being" very helpful in making a lot of these questions clearer, and providing plausible mechanisms for working through themPermalink Look on archive.org
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i remember, for example, being in a swimming pool changing room and talking about infinity with my dad, and really puzzling at the difference between nought point nine recurring and one. with more time to think about it: yeah, that's really confusing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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and the fact that teachers generally wouldn't talk about this stuff, and instead took my halting confusion as a lack of understanding of the things they were trying to teach and doubled down on explaining it a different way without addressing my fundamental confusion...Look on archive.org
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a big moment of realization when i read about fencepost errors and realized why i lost the ability to do addition in school for a day or twoPermalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, here's a mathematician @_julesh_/1179026611649335296Permalink Look on archive.org