Distracted by the hard part

1 · John Cook · Dec. 3, 2019, 12:16 p.m.
Summary
Last night I was helping my daughter with calculus homework. I told her that a common mistake was to forget what the original problem was after getting absorbed in sub-problems that have to be solved. I saw this over and over when I taught college. Then a few minutes later, we both did exactly what […]...