What People Get Wrong about Math
Most people think math is boring, terrifying, or only for geniuses. But that’s not true. The problem isn’t math itself — it’s how we teach it. Math, at its heart, is a creative, playful language and if we learn it that way, we can learn any math we want. For much of the late Mercantile to the end of the pre-industrial revolution era, formal education, as we understand it today, it did not really exist for the common person. ...