This essay is different from what I'm used to writing. By a lot. I feel as though I'm at my best when doing cultural commentary, or web development, but I've never really written about pure mathematics. I love mathematics, and there is such beauty to be found in the field. Some of the best examples of this are Grant Sanderson's animated explanations. Mathematics is not a catalogue of facts to memorize, but a way of seeing. We have failed generation after generation of children with the pedagogy of mathematics. School teaches maths as a sequence of procedures to execute correctly, a set of hoops to jump through on the way to a grade. The ritual of the "mad minute," the multiplication speed drill, have been the cause of the lifelong math anxiety many have. I myself came to mathematics late, and sideways. I personally don't have education on mathematics beyond freshman classes in university, so I apologize beforehand. Mea culpa. Technical and dense posts like this, which I deeply admire,…
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