RolfAndreassen comments on Rewiring my Brain: (gentle) Help Appreciated - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 10 October 2013 08:11:59PM 2 points [-]

This is a good suggestion for improving math skills. As you get to moderately advanced math, "Prove X" rather than "Calculate X" is often a very helpful kind of exercise to do, and is especially good for developing your mathematical intuition, that sense of where to go next that's also very useful in calculation problems.