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This is a tangential question, but I wondered if there are any materials out now for those of us curious about these methods that might want to give them a good try. I feel like I got a lovely math education that followed me all the way through getting an engineering degree. There were a few spots here and there where the stuff was making sense. Say, the precalculus class I had senior year was taught by the math department head, and that person was pretty drat good at actually teaching math. There were a few good spots in the early part of college, but it was poo poo for most of the rest of it. I chalked my problems with math to a general lack of discipline since in a 5-step calculation I'll inevitably bungle it completely, but I'm starting to wonder if I would have benefited from another method. Like, I suspect for other folks that alarm bells start going off when the fuckup arrives, not at the end of two pages of hand calculations when the answer doesn't seem to pan out. That was a major problem for me in college. I'd set everything up correctly, get in a few steps, gently caress up, and follow everything to its illogical conclusion. It only came to me a decade later that, you know, that equal sign means I should be able to smash some numbers in at any time and get the same thing on either side of an equation. I felt like an idiot. Having that stigma over my head made it much harder for any theory to stick, and I feel myself at a loss for fundamentals I feel like I should have. What I understand now is that if you treat math like a technical skill, you're more likely to become proficient in it than if you consider it to be a talent.
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