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if your dad said he would buy you a car if you made deans list, what would you have to demonstrate in order to get your car? was that so hard?
pentazoid said:I think college is way tooo late to learn how to write mathematical proofs! Proof writing should begin at least either in elementary school or middle school. Proof writing is just as important to a students education as learning how to write sentences and learn how to combined those sentences to create paragraghs and learn how to combined paragraphs together properly to write a decent term paper, because PRoof writing will improve your deductive and reasoning skills. I think a lot of people hate mathematics because they don't understand how the equations were derived . In high school, math was just memorizing formulas and algorithms . When I got to college, They just threw proofs right at me, and now my system that I have been using all my life to passed mathematics failed because you had to apply systematic methodology for writing proofs and so sadly I dropped my math major.
Howers said:Math is not for everyone. People should get out of the mentality its the schools fault. Schools provide all the proofs and motivations if you actually read the textbook. If not there are excellent resources in public libraries.
Unfortunately mathematical proofs are not that simple, even if they could be, because they're combined with a whole new set of terminology, jargon, and strict rules that turn a conversation with your father into a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlei9fyz80ocg6y .mathwonk said:if your dad said he would buy you a car if you made deans list, what would you have to demonstrate in order to get your car? was that so hard?
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