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People hate math formalism because it only makes sense if you already understand it.

It's more: you can only see how simple it really is once you understand it and it seems incredibly complicated until you do.

And that's incredibly frustrating for both sides of the student/teacher relationship.

>And that's incredibly frustrating for both sides of the student/teacher relationship.

This article, and your comment, reminded me of 'Math Class (Imagined by Kids)' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdxEAt91D7k (2 minutes long)

Heh, hadn't seen that before. I mostly remember wondering why the teacher was always talking about pizza.

And we already have man pages for that, thank you very much.

how to teach recursion

  def teach(something):
      lesson = None
      // Aye, there's the rub...
      if knowsHowToTeach():
          lesson = createLessonForSomething(something)
      else:
          lesson = teach(something)
      return lesson

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