This. I believe we are ripe for another leap in math education, or at least computer science education. A new approach to teaching that in a generation will make current methods looks like rhetorical algebra.
That page is a sort of rosetta stone for me after years of learning to code while also struggling with math notation. I find a similar fog lifts when I look at set theory through the lens of SQL and relation databases.
It amazes me that we still can't clearly demonstrate to children why math is important and instantly and universally instill a love and curiosity. Instead we have unforgiving educational models that are "well, you either get it or you don't."
It angers me to think of all the potentially _effective_ programmers who get their dreams squashed because they can't pass Calculus II (or other prereq.), and thus are literally not allowed to enroll in a programming course.
I didn't know about Karnaugh Maps but I use truth tables constantly in the design phase of tasks. Thank you very much for this. If you've found other tools like this please share. Not really related but for requirements I find gap and SWOT analysis to be vital tools as well as weighted pairwise comparisons. Throw in some UML diagrams and I start feeling good about things. These things impress far more people than they should.
I think this is a great example: https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
That page is a sort of rosetta stone for me after years of learning to code while also struggling with math notation. I find a similar fog lifts when I look at set theory through the lens of SQL and relation databases.
It amazes me that we still can't clearly demonstrate to children why math is important and instantly and universally instill a love and curiosity. Instead we have unforgiving educational models that are "well, you either get it or you don't."
It angers me to think of all the potentially _effective_ programmers who get their dreams squashed because they can't pass Calculus II (or other prereq.), and thus are literally not allowed to enroll in a programming course.
I didn't know about Karnaugh Maps but I use truth tables constantly in the design phase of tasks. Thank you very much for this. If you've found other tools like this please share. Not really related but for requirements I find gap and SWOT analysis to be vital tools as well as weighted pairwise comparisons. Throw in some UML diagrams and I start feeling good about things. These things impress far more people than they should.
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