Everyone wants their kid to be good at math, right?
Math — and the technology, finance, and engineering careers the follow from it — can be lucrative and interesting, but getting a child interested in math isn't easy.
Luckily, on Reddit, there's been a string of great discussions about what made devotees interested or skilled at math.
We went through some of the most popular submissions from real life math pros about what got them interested or hooked on mathematics at an early age.
If you're looking for a place to start, here's list of easy, cheap, or abundant things that got these people hooked early.
However, results are not guaranteed. As your future mathematician might tell you, correlation does not imply causation.
Buy your children legos.
Lots of Redditors cited Legos as being particularly crucial to their upbringing and thinking. Legos will help your kid conceptualize big, complex abstractions from small basic parts.
Source: pureathiesttroll on Reddit.
Buy them the card game Set.
Give them the card game Set. First published in 1991, Set was cited by multiple mathematicians as particularly inspiring. The game provokes the ideas of permutations, combinations and probability.
For what it's worth, there's also a very good App for it.
Source: BlueDoorFour on Reddit
Tech your children Origami.
One mathematician noted that origami conditioned them to love geometry. Plus, it has the added benefit of appealing to tactile learners.
One of the coolest things with origami and geometry is that it is proven impossible to trisect an angle with ruler and compass (via Galois theory), but very easy to do through origami.
Source: th3p4rchit3ct on Reddit.
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