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Book Burn Math Class And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself pdf Book Burn Math Class And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself pdf By Jason Wilkes Publisher: Basic Books, Year: 2016 ISBN: 0465053734,9780465053735 Search in Amazon.com Description: Forget everything you’ve been taught about math. In Burn Math Class, Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we learn math—with...

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Day 10 - Ex nihilo and re-inventing mathematics for myself

When I was a kid, I learned how to fix an electric fan. I didn’t have an instruction manual. I simply reverse engineered in my head how I think it was made, and I ended up fixing it.

In highschool, I had the same line of thinking but in terms of numbers. I liked playing with equations in my head and discovering the fastest way of mentally solving a problem. It proved to be an asset since it felt like I own math, rather than being a topic forced on me. In college, I lost that excitement. I bent my ways to simply memorizing a formula rather than being curious of the origins. (Which is probably why I lost interest and dropped out.)

In the book Burn Math Class, Jason told me (or the readers, rather) to forget everything that was taught to us and rediscover and reinvent math for ourselves by figuring it out from the beginning.

It’s fascinating because I’m learning math from an entirely different perspective. It’s definitely not a textbook type where a formula is introduced and you have to memorize and learn how it’s used.

I like how he reiterates the beauty of this subject and that the only reason students are afraid and intimidated is because of a preconceived notion that it will torment their brain. He explains that it’s a problem on the part of the education system, not the students.

Update: Désolé! I'm posting reflections instead of practical learnings, again. I got too excited 😂 Next time, I will definitely solve a math problem using his teachings. For now, I need to finish the book! I’m in Act 1 still.

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Why do textbooks always use x? The answer is pretty funny. It's actually a bastardized translation from Arabic. See, back in the old days, some Arabic mathematicians went through a train of thought similar to the one we've gone through here, and they decided to use the word 'something' for the same reason that we used 'stuff'. Perfectly reasonable. Then came this problem. The first letter of the word 'something' in Arabic makes a sound similar to the sound 'sh' in English. It turns out that the Spanish language has no 'sh' sound, so when all of this Arabic mathematics was translated into Spanish, the Spanish translators chose the closest thing they could think of. This was the Greek letter "chi" which looks like an x. - Burn Math Class, Jason Wilkes

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Day 9 of #96daysoflearningbydoing - Making predications from scatter plots

I'm deeply in love with statistics right now 💚 I know this because I've spent 3 hours on Khan today, but I feel like only a minute has gone by. I can go on for another 3 if I didn't have to sleep 😄 However, the thing about interpreting the equation and making predictions out of scatter plots is, it's not applied statistics. Although the given problems are real-world scenarios, the questions and answers are theoritical - from my perspective 😭 Oh I know how to use and manipulate equations. I can pick that up easily. But where did the equation originate from and why do I have to use it? Will be reading Burn Math Class by Jason Wilkes tonight to find the As to my Qs.