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Does your book try to teach math abstractly or traditionally?

When I learned math in school they just told us operations and the rules to use them with.

But my love of math really started when I learned more pure constructs like functions as a means to map from a source set to a destination set.

I realized that all the rules that people found hard to remember came from these abstract principles, where they made sense, and we're not simply arbitrarily defined.

But abstract math also seems much more complex to reason about.

So to ask my question again in a different way, is your book teaching applied mathematics or pure mathematics?

Awesome! Thanks for doing this AMA.

A follow-up question. Have you had any success teaching abstract math concepts at that grade level?

I want to look at building a Comp-Sci curriculum that could be integrated into the K-12 school system and want to know roughly how far down the theory hole is too far for kids and teens.