Spanish Translation


[...] Cuando se lo digo a la gente, generalmente tienen dos reacciones, una justo después de la otra.


Normalmente dicen: "Matemáticas... bueno, me gustaban en el instituto. Me gustaba mucho!", "pero en realidad nunca  entendí los logaritmos", o "nunca entendí trigonometría", o "las fracciones me mataron".


En realidad es bastante habitual.

Y lo segundo que dicen es: "Bueno, eso no es para mí", o "no tengo cabeza para eso...", "simplemente no se me da".


Y lo que de verdad, de verdad me frustra, es que la gente se divorcia de este bonito y profundo campo del conocimiento

que tenemos ahí.


Y me pregunto: "¿por qué? ¿Por qué nos hacemos
esto a nosotros mismos?"


Creo que parte de la respuesta está en la manera de la que nos educan y en cómo aprendemos. Especialmente a edades tempranas.


Pienso que la manera de la que aprendemos es que empezamos por comprender.


Comprendemos cómo decir nuestro nombre, comprendemos cómo montar en bicicleta,

empezamos por comprender muchas cosas, y la suma, comprendemos la suma.


Pero, ¿por qué no las fracciones?

Creo que la razón es que durante nuestro aprendizaje nos hacen preguntas cada vez más complicadas. Y, con el tiempo, nos saltamos una pregunta que no entendemos
al primer intento y nos rendimos[...]

 

Original

 

[...] When I tell people that, they usually have two reactions, one right after the other.


They usually go, "Math, aww, I loved that in high school!",
"That was great!", "But I never really got logarithms," or "I never really got trigonometry," or "ratios...ratios killed me"


It's actually not that uncommon. But the second reaction is,

"That's just not for me." like "I don't have the brain for it..." "that's just not it."


And what really, really, frustrates me, is that people divorce themselves from this beautiful, deep body of knowledge that's out there.


And my question is "why?" Why would you do that to yourself?


I think part of the answer is in the way that we're educated
and the way that we learn. Especially really early on.


I think the way we learn is that we begin by grasping.


We grasp pronouncing our own name, we grasp riding a bicycle, we grasp making change for a 20, and addition, we grasp addition.


But why not "ratios?" I think the reason is, in our education, we're asked more and more complicated questions. And, eventually, we'll always come across a question where we don't grasp it immediately on the first try, and we fall down. [...]