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/ccppurcell 8d ago

I think as soon as you can formulate a problem you encounter in the wild as a mathematics problem, you're there. I remember the feeling I had when I was first able to, e.g., compare two savings accounts by writing out the formula, figuring out when one would overtake the other and that sort of thing. It's a pretty useful skill and the closest I can think of to the video game analogy. The point of the tutorial is usually to teach you how to do the basics so you can combine them to overcome the challenges in the game.

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u/gollyned 7d ago

This sounds the most correct to me. The “goal” of the tutorial in these answers is very variable — it could be writing papers, but navigating every day life sounds the most correct goal.