Mike, what a fascinating post! Although your understanding is clearly deeper than my own, your thoughts about math debt remind me why I am uncomfortable when students try to oversimplify concepts without *any* understanding (just picking the number at the end for y-intercept, for example). At the same time, you refreshingly concede that a little bit of math debt is not a bad thing. I’ll definitely be chewing on these ideas for a while!
Mike, what a fascinating post! Although your understanding is clearly deeper than my own, your thoughts about math debt remind me why I am uncomfortable when students try to oversimplify concepts without *any* understanding (just picking the number at the end for y-intercept, for example). At the same time, you refreshingly concede that a little bit of math debt is not a bad thing. I’ll definitely be chewing on these ideas for a while!