Math: How We Teach It V.S. How We Do It
4 min readJul 4, 2023
I came to teaching in an unusual route: I got my Ph.D. in Space Physics before becoming a teacher of remedial math for the army. This means I had several decades of using high-level math before trying to teach low-level math. When I started teaching, I realized that I didn’t remember how I was taught, and so decided to just teach it the way I did it. This was mind-blowing to other teachers. My students would ask me why…
