"Part of the problem is the way mathematics is taught at schools: from the earliest days of kindergarten onwards, mathematics is taught as if everybody is going to be an engineer. (Please don’t take this as a slight against engineers, for whom I have an almost infinite respect; this is merely a comment on the sort of mathematics that engineers are taught and use.) There is a careful gradation from counting, measurement, through to arithmetic, algebra and geometry, culminating in calculus. You’ll notice one thing missing: proofs!"
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