nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyqf5xxxzllg5cdlszyc7w3zzgjcqhsynp6l2vrdatz98geayvwda5x4e4ry (nprofile…e4ry) My experience as a tutor and a teaching assistant in math-heavy subjects was that, while it's not everyone, there are a lot of kids who basically get the material but who need someone to occasionally encourage them that they're on the right track when they seize up and second-guess themselves.
The second-guessing can be useful in more advanced study if it's targeted appropriately. If I didn't know for sure that that diagram was supposed to represent Euclidean geometry, I *couldn't* actually say that the congruent angles followed from the symmetry of the triangle without further assumptions. (Maybe the metric space it's in doesn't share that symmetry!) Then, that student's suspicion of intuition would be warranted. It's just misfiring in situations where it's not.
Matt McIrvin
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