Learning mathematics is based on the human nature
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Learning mathematics is based on the human nature         


Author: Hannele.Tervola
Date: May 5, 2008 22:51

There is no mathematics in the nature. There are only sizes to measure
and numbers of individual entities with roughly but not exactly the
same qualities. Mathematics is just a tool invented by humans. It
leaves away the complexity of the nature and concentrates on single
easily measurable charachteristics. It is good for the building of
tools but not for the guiding of actions which should be more complex,
like the nature is. So if we take something as an example of what good
quality thinking is like, that should not be mathematics but the
natural perceptions of nature: of life in the action. Since if we
learn how to handle the complexity of the nature, we can handle also
simple things like mathematics but not the other way around!
Humans are adabted to a life in the nature where nothing is twice the
same, even though some significant charachteristics repeat themselves
again and again. No two bushes are alike, there is always some tiny
variation, which can be quite big if you take a closer, slower look at
the thing: Here is a branch to the north, there to the south, here are
three bush trunks, there just two,... This is what the human eye and
the whole human perception ability are adabted to, so mathematics too
becomes easier if it is done WITH the natural variation, with each
single object being different, and not without it. So it is easier to ...
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