Math Education is a War Zone
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Once you get away from โI can empirically test this right now, right in front of me, like I can test that 2x3=6,โ itโs tough to keep arguments productive.
They often spiral into disagreement about assumptions: who interprets what to mean what, who has what preconceptions.
Funny enough, one of the reasons I went into math was to avoid these sorts of argumentsโฆ little did I know that math education is a philosophical and political warzone ๐
Seems like it doesnโt matter what you start with โ once you append โeducationโ or โpolicyโ or any kind of descriptor that implies managing the experiences of other people, you get a warzone.
Math? ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ
Math education? ๐ฃ๐ฅ
Math education policy? ๐
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