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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Showing Our Work
Description: Dave Brisbin 3.23.25
Remember taking math tests in school? Remember how you had to show your work? Remember how you hated that? Wasn’t enough to get the answer, you had to show how you got to the answer. Yes, a right answer, or at least a functional one, is important. But showing your work signaled that you grasped underlying principles that would give you repeatable results, a platform on which to build.
Mathematics understands that the how is at least as important as the what. That any answer is only valid within the context of the process of the solution. Ho...