You know how, when you take a language class, there’s often a couple kids who speak the language at home and think the class is super easy?
You can do that with math.
When you pre-learn the material in a math course before taking it at school or college, you’re basically guaranteed an A in the class.
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Basically, you can use pre-learning to kick off a virtuous cycle.
Even if you aren’t a genius, you appear to be one in everyone else’s eyes, and consequently you get a ticket to those opportunities reserved for top students.
Students who receive and capitalize on these opportunities can launch themselves into some of the most interesting, meaningful, and lucrative careers that are notoriously difficult to break into.
I do think this kind of proactive approach to life, not only in math, is characteristic of most successful people...
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It's still in the factory model mindset of education though - that's the problem..
Learning math (or anything) should be applicable to a problem you want to solve... Getting an A or a high mark is irrelevant at this point, and certainly in the future.
For example: student wants to create an experiment for a new type of IOT project to help with power consumption: one of the things they will need to get to that goal is subnetting skills to build a network to support the project - binary and subnetting become integral to the project, so they'll remember it forever.
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I had a friend who taught math. He told me there weren't many opportunities for pure math. Basically teaching or get a grant and go experimental.
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