Jennie should learn math

[Onamuji]

Article Accelerator wrote:
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[quote=Onamuji]I wonder whether learning math as an extension of English vocabulary and syntax is more effective than the rote repetition of formulas that we had to do when I was a kid.

No need to wonder: It's not.
It seems a reasonable supposition that treating math as a language might tap into evolutionary/instinctive learning mechanisms in children.
That seems to imply that math is somehow unnatural for humans. I don't think that's the case.
I think that it depends upon the specific kind of math. The concept of zero, for example, seems to be an invention that must be taught (tho as a learned concept it's so easy to pass on that pigeons and rhesus monkeys can learn it). And nobody seems to have an instinct for calculus.