math and climbing

[ursula]

In November, my article on math anxiety and climbing came out in the magazine Math Horizons. It's about how I used what I know about teaching math to talk myself into climbing a wall. My first climbing partner, Megan, was on the magazine cover:

http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/nov11.jpg

I've posted a proof of the article on my professional website:

http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/mathandgymclass-mathhorizons.pdf

Comments

[surexit]

Yeah, that's the thing, I get that sort of, but not intuitively, you know? Like (2+2 is the pattern where two apples and two more apples is "the same" as two cars and two more cars.) sort of confuses me but I half get it and the bit I get of it sort of blows my mind because it's so mundane but so different from how I think of numbers.

BASICALLY, I am missing the maths part of my brain.