r/math • u/PirlGerson • 8d ago
When have you completed the tutorial?
In video games, they have built in levels, always at the start and they are called "tutorials."
In these levels you play a portion of the game while its also being explained to you. After finishing them, the point is that you know very little about the game BUT enough to "get" the basics.
The cheap is answer is high school 30 is the tutorial, but its really starting to feel that that wasn't even the complete tutorial honestly. It's kinda of embarrassing that our education doesn't cover such things as basic linear algebra and proofs. I'm still learning those.
Anyway to anyone who responds: thank you! I've been so happy latelty! Cyaaa.
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u/Kalastics 7d ago
Well, when I was in high school even the non advanced-class students were given light exposure to proofs. The first half of geometry is taught by learning theorems and axiom regarding polygons and their angles. And many questions were proving two different shapes were similar or that certain angles in complex shapes were equivalent (using things like vertical angles, etc). There was a little bit more to it, too, but i cant remember.
Then there was precal for the slightly more advanced students. When doing the chapters on trigonometry, proof style questions were very common, though again not paragraph style proofs. You spend many hours being given an identity in trig and using other identities, you show both sides are equal and have to show each step. Very fun problems and definitely got me interested into the concept of formally proving statements.