{"id":439,"date":"2015-09-28T21:03:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-10-13T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:49:43","slug":"just-a-list-of-math-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/just-a-list-of-math-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a list of math words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recommended (by myself to myself), for the <a href=\"\/wiki\/Math_Relearning\/Measurement\">measurement<\/a> chapter of my math relearning project I&#8217;ve posted a list of topics to cover (<a href=\"\/w\/index.php?title=Math_Relearning\/Measurement&#038;oldid=174\">post-time version<\/a>). It does have footnotes to help me find the topics in my main sources, but nothing more. It feels like enough for a post.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the reasons I mentioned <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/experimenting-with-iterative-writing\/\">last time<\/a>, I&#8217;ve thought of another benefit to a breadth-first approach to projects like this one. I tend to lose perspective when I&#8217;m diving deeply into part of a topic. I get bogged down in the details and quickly feel like this is the most important topic in the world and I can take as much time as I need on it. Well it isn&#8217;t, and I can&#8217;t. Hopefully taking a broad view on a regular basis by treating the subject matter in layers will help me keep a sense of the relative importance of all the pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recommended (by myself to myself), for the measurement chapter of my math relearning project I&#8217;ve posted a list of topics to cover (post-time version). It does have footnotes to help me find the topics in my main sources, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/28\/just-a-list-of-math-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,54,12,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-relearning","category-projects","category-site_updates","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}