Timeline for To 17 year olds, how can I explain that two numbers with arbitrarily small difference are equal?
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| Nov 22, 2023 at 10:24 | comment | added | AnoE | @user95017, I notice that you added that comment to almost every answer - I appreciate that you give a reason for accepting a different one, but it's not really necessary; There Can Only Be One, anyways, so it's fine. :) That said, the way I interpret the word "intuitive" it would expand to an intuition about how to structure a (possibly formalistic) proof. I had not interpreted the question as to "how can they just 'see' the statement and automatically 'know' (out of thin air) the solution". If that is the normal meaning of "intuitistic" in teaching circles, then I stand corrected. ;) | |
| Nov 22, 2023 at 4:09 | comment | added | user95017 | @MichaelBächtold I agree. This answer is WAY too formalistic and theoretical. I seek intuition, NOT proofs. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 3:27 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | This would not work if your student was intuitionist. | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 7:22 | history | edited | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 18, 2023 at 9:06 | history | answered | AnoE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |