[TED] Teaching kids real math with computers

Conrad Wolfram talks about the use of computer in our education on mathematics. He says that we are wasting our time trying to "calculate" which computers can do easily. He shows how the real math in this world is used in much more diverse settings and problem solvings, whereas the math we teach in schools are far more about calculation. The crucial steps he explains is that we have to be smart about using technology and not waste time solving problems by hand.

He also answers popular controversy where people say solving by hand is beneficial. However it is relatively smaller compared to what we really need to know for real world math.

Questions: How did we discover technologies that can do things we can't ever do better or faster? (A whole new mind, where he says that we have to find a job that no one and nothing can do faster or cheaper)

I think our education system should have a variety of real world teachings. Although we are learning the basics, we should be outside more often, actually discovering the world, not sitting in a classroom doing some math problems.

One word: imagination
-we need to think in terms of the big picture of the world. We shouldn't just look at the short term gaining and loss, but also consider the long term effects. And to do that, we need to use our imagination.