Are our brains wired for math?
28th February 2008
Only non-Westerners, apparently. Of course, this is the New Yorker….
Steve Sailer has some thoughts on the subject.
You just have to have the Times Table pounded into your head over and over as a kid, but our education system is against “rote learning,” so school kids aren’t usually forced to chant them like in the good old days. But kids actually kind of like rote learning. (It’s adults who hate learning that way, and especially hate teaching that way.) Kids like singing the alphabet song, for instance. You’d think educators would find a times table rap that today’s children would like.
Indeed.