It's not a counterpoint. The Feynman excerpt and the paper support each other.
The paper's abstract ends, "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal maths."
The Feynman excerpt is about the issues caused by a lack of practica in education and how they should be resolved.
The paper's authors wrote, "These findings call for a maths pedagogy that explicitly addresses these translational challenges through curricula that connect abstract maths symbols and concepts to intuitively meaningful contexts and problems." And provide 2 examples of Randomized Control Trials of math courses in Brazil and India respectively that address the challenges successfully.
Even if you remove Feynman's name, it's still interesting that a Theoretical Physics professor and educator wrote clearly about a very similar issue they encountered over 60 years before the paper in question was published.
The paper's abstract ends, "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal maths." The Feynman excerpt is about the issues caused by a lack of practica in education and how they should be resolved.
The paper's authors wrote, "These findings call for a maths pedagogy that explicitly addresses these translational challenges through curricula that connect abstract maths symbols and concepts to intuitively meaningful contexts and problems." And provide 2 examples of Randomized Control Trials of math courses in Brazil and India respectively that address the challenges successfully.
Even if you remove Feynman's name, it's still interesting that a Theoretical Physics professor and educator wrote clearly about a very similar issue they encountered over 60 years before the paper in question was published.