How to Force Your Kids to Do Math?

ogogmad · 2025-04-19T21:06:37 1745096797

Maybe find an application of the subject that they might find interesting. I suppose if you can't find anything that interests them, then it's much harder to teach it.

For instance, perspective drawing might provide a nice application of 3D projective space, its subspaces, and perspectivities between those subspaces. Some of the theory of conic sections might be relevant too.

Computer graphics provides a nice application of coordinate geometry. This covers elementary algebra, Pythagoras's theorem, etc.

Even eating pizza can provide an application of differential geometry.

jvanderbot · 2025-04-19T21:19:09 1745097549

I tell my kids they can have letter cookies if they pick a word that starts with the letter, and can have 5 treats if they ask for 4 but know what "plus one means" or can have 4 if they recite "2 plus 2 equals ... ".

They're 3, so I don't expect that to scale, but I'm hoping it's normal reward-for-knowledge by the time we get report cards.

CBLT · 2025-04-19T21:22:32 1745097752

Something that might work for getting your kids interested in modular arithmetic: The Chicken McNugget Theorem.

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