For ppl who are skilled with language, I remain convinced the solution lies with teaching deductive logic.
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whatever the solution for how to meet students with different capacities and ways of thinking, it is just the case that colleges need to do far more remedial education. What is the point of forcing so many kids to do a calculus class they are unprepared for and then tutting when you get bad outcomes
aug 19, 2025, 9:27 pm • 3 0 • view
This is probably primarily a question of funding, but how it works in practice is having adjuncts pick up the pieces as everyone else abdicates responsibility for meeting people where they are at
aug 19, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Also just how degree plans are thought of; in many cases there isn’t really any flexibility for not passing a course, especially if that course is a prerequisite of something else.
aug 20, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
The expectation to graduate in four years is definitely a part of this, but I’m not sure what else feeds into this mindset.
aug 20, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Honestly for me, the secret was “teaching myself math with code/programming”
aug 19, 2025, 9:25 pm • 6 0 • view
the one neat trick i had to figure out was to be alone with the book and do all the exercises. worked wonders. is very very high-effort. any less rigid structure did not work at all
aug 19, 2025, 9:26 pm • 5 0 • view
That’s the other thing that works for me - I don’t want to be or need to be in a class, just give me a textbook and R and leave me alone
aug 19, 2025, 9:28 pm • 3 0 • view
class is okay for a review if i already know because i just have to show up to be reminded of everything but yeah i find it completely unhelpful for first exposure to anything. pen and paper because i'm old or something
aug 19, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
I wish I knew where it came from, but I’ve always taken notes in a physical notebook for my college classes because my mom said she’d read research showing that physical writing interacted with memory differently than typing.
aug 20, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
And these are very close to each other. In fact, the one makes the other easier.
aug 19, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
So if you're a wordcel with a visual learning disability you should just suck it up and do the deductive learning textbook
aug 19, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
using programming to learn math is the answer for those people
aug 19, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
or at least for some of them
aug 19, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
If you want to try, Goldfarb’s DEDUCTIVE LOGIC is very good. It gets you all the way to first order logic, which basically all undergrad math and the bulk of grad math is done in.
aug 19, 2025, 9:33 pm • 4 0 • view