well, the extent of my understanding of math is at best rudimentary —but I think I understand the argument against your point about intuition in this case.
getting the math right enables you to communicate the solution person to person. not just the result but how you got there.
intuition can communicate the result but how you got there—not so much. so its difficult if not impossible to replicate.
math forms the tool kit for doing other stuff.
These days I tell interested middle school students that the money math is algorithms & c++ if they’re interested in writing software and statistics if they’re interested in management.
Not what I meant. I can communicate it in words. Just can’t do the numbers. Numbers and mathematical formulas are different. Formulas I can do. Numbers, I will write down wrong even if I am looking straight at them and the answer is right in front of me on a calculator.
If this, then that.
Dyslexia is hard to deal with at times. If I am tired, my words are just as incomprehensible as they can possibly be, even if I have formed them inside my head. Have to double check every post I make for backwards spelling, mixed up letters, and sometimes a string of unrelated letters that don’t even LOOK like a word.
At any rate, as I said earlier, the balloons illustrate the point. Sometimes a picture makes it easier to understand.