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An idea I roll around in my head from time to time, not as an idea to be taken literally (i.e. not as something to implement literally), but as a tool to generate new ideas, is trying to imagine what a '''[[Duolingo]] for math''' would look like.
 
An idea I roll around in my head from time to time, not as an idea to be taken literally (i.e. not as something to implement literally), but as a tool to generate new ideas, is trying to imagine what a '''[[Duolingo]] for math''' would look like.
  
One problem with "duolingo for math" is that in math, if you want to think about a problem or a theorem or whatever, you often need to load a lot of things into your [[working memory]]. So even just being able to "play" requires this initial loading. Once you have loaded things into WM however, you can often play in a fun way, and mini-tasks like in duolingo can work well.
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[[Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]]
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 00:00, 27 March 2021

An idea I roll around in my head from time to time, not as an idea to be taken literally (i.e. not as something to implement literally), but as a tool to generate new ideas, is trying to imagine what a Duolingo for math would look like.

Tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory

See also