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We teach maths, and music, as if to make people hate them

We give the solution away and skip the wonder and the struggle (Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament); a reader who hated maths at school was taught badly, not born without it.

Decided by. Dinis, in Connect the dots backwards (the first name was corrected by the checking)

Where it comes from

• Connect the dots backwards We teach maths as if to make people hate it (article)

What it answers in the 2018 book

• Love Maths unanswered outline, Life Patterns

Where it goes

Chapter Connect the dots backwards, part Before you start (drafting); topic Everyone who can brief an agent is a developer now.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Learning can be made for you, not for a mythical average student, Think with the AI; never delegate your thinking to it, A path only makes sense looking back, The edge is now multidisciplinary, Generative AI lets you explore and communicate again, By reading this you are already in a small minority, and geography no longer decides, Flow and deliberate practice are the science of the zone and of learning, Know where your ideas come from: keep your own register.

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