Hey math students and parets,
Today math gets compared to real life: Get rich quick! Get math quick!
One is frowned upon, the other encouraged.
One is recommended to avoid, the other seems to be engrained in our math culture.
Both encourage a, do less work to get high rewards.
Both skip steps, take shortcuts.
Both are difficult to repeat on an ongoing basis as key learning steps and habits are skipped – challenge for ‘rich quick’ would be replicating it and for ‘math quick’ it would be remembering it.
Both can lead to unrealistic expectations.
If someone approaches you with a ‘get rich quick’ scheme or a ‘get math quick’ trick, well,