calculus and signal processing should be taught before arithmetic in kindergarten and im not joking

@deersyrup elaborate

@sterophonick I wanna write something longer on this but in the interest of getting my point out there: i think it would encourage a more intuitive, sensory, open ended, and creative understanding of the way math can be used to describe real-world experiences, rather than just manipulating quantities. then symbols and arithmetic could be introduced to “compress” or “store” or “share” the experience without “the experience itself” having to be in the space

for example you could do a pouring water play exercise and later on introduce “∫” and ratios as shorthand to record/describe the experience. Kids are already exploring sight and sound so I think it would fit right in

my impetus for the thought is based mostly in distaste for my own math education; I didn’t realize I loved math until years after college. This is probably not ideal for everyday numeracy but I think it would produce fewer people who think they hate math and better intuitive sense of math as descriptive language

@deersyrup @sterophonick
As a young kid in school they used to bus me to another school once a week (for "gifted" kids) and the math lessons were mostly logic puzzles and word games. It got me to consider that math has a purpose outside of numerical manipulation.

Honestly, if someone had shown me a visual proof for integrating the area of a circle then i might have loved it

@RnDanger @deersyrup @sterophonick
Same, when I learned how the formulas for a circle and a sphere were related was when math became magical for me.