Hello. The Name is Vault Math Vault. How Are You?

## Reversing the Trend

###### People in the field of higher mathematics often talk about reforming math education at the K-12 level, but we would rather flip it around and ask the following:
What are some major issues we face in the education of higher mathematics?

## THE ISSUES AS WE SEE IT...

##### "Can-Prove-But-Can't-Grasp" Syndrome

###### To promote a strong and resilient mathematical culture, a focus on intuitive representations, conceptual understanding and alternative approaches must be kept in check.
The me﻿dium﻿﻿ of communication is only efficient, when it can be made to closely match the native mental representation of the concept in question.

## Bridging The Gap

###### Since we're playful by nature, we decided to take these issues into our own hands:
• Designing visually-sophisticated educational materials in higher mathematics, as if they are to be read by 3-year-old toddlers. Interactive features, rich media — you name it.
• Leveraging 21st-century web technologies to better communicate abstract math concepts and strategies, and enhance knowledge consolidation via unconventional cognitive devices.
• Promoting active, inquiry-based learning via the Socratic method — by deliberately replacing answers with questions, supplying proofs with strategies, and by encouraging guided free-thinking while staying focused on the same topic.

The Problem Method is, I am convinced, the way to teach everything. It teaches techniques and understanding, it teaches research and problem solving, it teaches the way nature taught us [...] before we invented teachers.

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