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> Why can't we just provide a simple real life example first and then go on explaining the details?

That's a very good approach, which I try to follow in all my writings. Basically, I imagine a reader that is generally uninterested in the material, so the first thing to do is to "pitch" the mathematical concept using a simple example, or just say why the concept is useful. In the remainder of the lesson, I assume the reader might lose interest and stop reading at any point, so this is why I put the most valuable content first (definitions and formulas), followed by explanations, and finally a general discussion about how the material relates to other concepts.




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