Fireside Chat: Mathematics

Sarah Deconink, our head of the math department, laid out some pretty brilliant insight on how we try and teach math classically. I was amazed and excited about what she shared. We really only know what we can build from the concrete. From the concrete we then begin to abstract as we developmentally reach that age where we can do that. By continually going back to concrete things we know we never lose math to the very tempting abstract processes they can become. When math is simply a set of steps to follow as opposed to problems to solve we can lose the whole purpose to math: to understand creation and thereby our creator.