RedTailHawk on Nostr: I'm in favor of learning how to print and write in cursive. Each is useful in not ...

I'm in favor of learning how to print and write in cursive. Each is useful in not only the obvious, primary ways.

For example, the letter L can be written 4 ways: capital print, lowercase print, capital cursive, and lowercase cursive.

When teaching children about how to properly speak fractions and decimals, I write out each of the 4 variations of the letter L and ask the student to pronounce each of them.

The point is to help them see that the link between written variations of some concept is the way we speak that concept, therefore, rather than saying "five over 10" or "five by ten", or "zero point five" or "point five", they'll realize they need to call 5/10 and 0.5 "five tenths".

Math itself is a language, so it shouldn't surprise us to find that studying language forms like cursive and printed writing yields us useful analogs.