Comment by smitty1e
1 year ago
Therein lies the rub. Treating abstract and the concrete in isolation was always tough sledding for me.
Bouncing between the two is where the action is.
And units: if I had it all to do over, I would pore over the units sooner rather than later.
Absolutely. Units are such a useful idea.
I was recently struggling to model a financial process and solved it with Units. Once I started talking about colors of money as units, it became much easier to reason about which operations were valid.
Strictly speaking this is about dimensional analysis, not units. (When discussing curricula we should be precise!)