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Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video]

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In his JPBM Communications Prize lecture, 3Blue1Brown founder Grant Sanderson uses the metaphor of King Midas's touch to argue that mathematics's precision is both a gift and a "pedagogical curse" — it makes rigor easy to measure, yet makes teaching clarity hard to verify. He therefore advocates "raising the ceiling of mathematical exposition while lowering the floor."

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