Comment by dahart

Anecdotally I’ve heard some CS professors rant about how we teach things all wrong to CS students, especially math and CS, by going bottom up and focusing on abstract building blocks and tools before presenting enough context or real-world motivating examples. One told me about some research into math education that flipped the normal curriculum for math students and went in a very different order than what we all learned in school, and the claim was that students were learning faster & better. If true that might be a tad interesting and surprising.