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Some Thoughts on the Teaching of Mathematics -- ten years later

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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}
}

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10 pages, to appear in Notices of the AMS