Timeline for How do you approach your child's math education? [closed]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://mathoverflow.net/ with https://mathoverflow.net/
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| Feb 14, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | Danu | There is also a Parenting site now. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | TRiG | matheducators.stackexchange.com | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 12:51 | comment | added | David White | I like this question, but soft questions like this are often closed nowadays as no longer relevant, and that's good too. We can't have this big hulking old questions lying around for anyone to revive. In this case I would say perhaps the reason for closing is the wrong reason, but it's correct for this to be closed at this moment. | |
| Apr 16, 2010 at 12:48 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | I don't fathom why this is closed. The argumentative posts I see are about the decision to close it. I propose a new rule: if a [closed] post gets 1000+ views, and has multiple answers with 20+ upvotes, then the moderators admit they were wrong. | |
| Apr 5, 2010 at 15:29 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @Scott - fair enough. [BTW, I do not know how to put this politely, but I am not particularly crazy about my first name being misspelled.] | |
| Apr 3, 2010 at 23:27 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Regarding Valdimir Dotsenko's comment: I think this discussion has taken enough of the community's time, and we can "put it to pasture" now. | |
| Apr 3, 2010 at 23:18 | history | closed |
Andrew Stacey Harry Gindi François G. Dorais Kevin Buzzard S. Carnahan♦ |
not constructive | |
| Apr 3, 2010 at 21:56 | answer | added | Jeremy Teitelbaum | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 2, 2010 at 18:15 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | In the early days of MO (gosh, makes me sound old!) I thought that it would be a great place to canvas opinion on a range of matters "of interest to mathematicians". I had many discussions with Anton (+ others) on this which are over on meta. Eventually, he persuaded me that it is best to let MO do what MO is designed for and recognise that whilst it is tempting to ask questions like this, it just doesn't work. It took a while for me to see this and I (probably) irritated quite a few people doing this before I got it. I recommend going over to meta and reading the discussions there. | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 20:59 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @Andrew (and Kevin) - whilst I can see your point here, I still think that rgrig's question is not particularly irrelevant, as he is not asking for educators' opinions on how to teach kids, but rather for mathematicians' opinions on the matter... and for a question that an author intends for mathematicians, there is no other expert to answer but a mathematician :-) It's true that asking that on a maths blog etc. would be better, but this is the cost of MO popularity: now everyone knows that to have many mathematicians notice a question, it makes sense to get it posted on MO! :-) | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 12:58 | vote | accept | rgrig | ||
| Apr 1, 2010 at 12:48 | comment | added | rgrig | Kevin, I think I understood the first time what Andrew said and I agree that it is a good argument for closing the question. Hence, when I'll have such questions in the future I will not post them on MO. Consequently, I want to know of alternatives, so I asked. | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 12:25 | comment | added | Kevin Buzzard | @rgrig: You say to Andrew "If there is a better place to get such opinions, then please let me know.". But even if he doesn't know, this was not his point. "This is not a good place" is not the same as "I know a better place". I agree with him that this is not a good place. Didn't stop me answering, but I am actually surprised this isn't already closed! My personal take on questions like this is "answer 'em quick and then close 'em before they get boring". | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 6:59 | answer | added | Dev Sinha | timeline score: 35 | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 0:41 | answer | added | DoubleJay | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 23:42 | answer | added | thiago silva | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 22:42 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | Anyway, I think I won't teach my child any math unless it asks me to. There are some books such as Flatland which could be very inspiring, but I definitely won't set the child on the same track ... | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 22:38 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | I'm really dying to read some answer "and then you should teach him stack theory and $\infty$-categories" .. ;-) | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 22:13 | answer | added | Eivind Dahl | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 21:36 | comment | added | rgrig | Andrew, it is very easy for me to get the opinion of someone specialized in pedagogy: I can simply ask my wife, who has such a degree. Here I wanted to get the opinions of professional mathematicians, which, I believe, are relevant. If there is a better place to get such opinions, then please let me know. In any case, even if the question is closed now, I want to thank again for the very useful answers given so far! | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 20:49 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | I'm voting to close this question. My difficulty with it is that whilst there will be many people here who have an opinion on how best to do this (including myself), the majority of those (if not all) will not be experts in this matter. I would like to keep MO a place where one can be sure that an expert will see the question, and here I don't see that happening. (I should clarify that I don't expect an "expert" to answer each question, but that I know that if one sees a howling error then they are likely to step in and correct it.) | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 20:44 | history | edited | rgrig | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
quote from gowers
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| Mar 31, 2010 at 19:07 | answer | added | Bruce Westbury | timeline score: 104 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 17:59 | comment | added | Jan Weidner | My father used the following trick to teach me my first "mathematics": He gave me pocket-money. However he did not just give me say 50 cent per week, but the amount was derived by a more sophisticated formula involving the number of milk-tooth I already lost: 37cent+2cent per milk tooth lost or something like this So I needed to learn some counting and addition to figure out, how much money he owed me. | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 17:13 | answer | added | Sammy Black | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 17:12 | comment | added | rgrig | Ryan, which part sounds like I'm trying to be hyper-vigilant? He will definitely not be home-schooled. Other than that I'm not sure what's best, which is why I posted this question. Before I make up my mind, I will consider all the approaches that are suggested below plus the one of Papadimitriou's father. I still have some time so I don't want to rush deciding now. Thanks a lot to all who answered so far. It is very helpful! | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 17:01 | answer | added | Scott Carter | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 16:59 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | It sounds like you're trying to be pretty hyper-vigilant, are you home-schooling your child? I think as long as your lines of communication are open with your child they should feel comfortable asking you direct questions. I asked my father to clarify the notion of a variable (grade 3? 6?). After that I preferred to do everything on my own. | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 16:33 | answer | added | Joel David Hamkins | timeline score: 25 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 16:20 | answer | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | timeline score: 19 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 16:11 | answer | added | user1161 | timeline score: 22 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 16:09 | answer | added | Kevin Buzzard | timeline score: 50 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 15:59 | comment | added | rgrig | It's possible I don't remember correctly. I'll check when I get to the book this evening. | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 15:34 | comment | added | Tom Smith | Having been lectured by Tim Gowers I would guess that his comment about his son was a joke rather than a serious statement. I could be wrong though. | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 15:33 | answer | added | Steve Huntsman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2010 at 15:31 | history | edited | rgrig | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
fixed spelling in title
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| Mar 31, 2010 at 15:20 | history | asked | rgrig | CC BY-SA 2.5 |