Some Thoughts on the Teaching of Mathematics -- ten years later
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2014-01-07 v1
Abstract
I describe some deep-seated problems in higher mathematical education, and give some ideas for their solution -- I advocate a move away from the traditional introduction of mathematics through calculus, and towards computation and discrete mathematics.
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@article{arxiv.1401.0828,
title = {Some Thoughts on the Teaching of Mathematics -- ten years later},
author = {Igor Rivin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0828},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, to appear in Notices of the AMS