one of those weird things about math is that i “know basic calculus” in that i know the fundamental differential rules, but i feel like i don’t really “know calculus” in that i could not even begin to explain why they work
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@coriander to be fair, imo a good math education would encourage the student to at some point stop trying to interrogate the conceptual understanding and just accept that the purroofs work out the way they do—otherwise there’s just too much to try to Get
@aescling Yeah there's gotta be a balance, I'm not saying everyone who takes high school algebra also needs to know theoretical math reasons why algebra works the way it does
But if you're up to calc there should be at least a little bit in there