I think Eddie Woo might just be the basic building block of education!
This is what a great educator look like!

"I don't want you to shout out any answers."

Mr. Woo is flexing on us with how much engagement he's getting.

you know he's a good teacher when he's got me watching these videos for fun

"But what is three?"
vsauce music kicks in

>division by zero
>YEEESSS


wow that is some enthusiastic student. Probs.

For some reason I always imagined the door on the other side of the room

I  am a retired instrumentation technician and a Maths lover....I must say this guy is a wonderful teacher.  :)

I haven't even watched the whole video yet, but i love how at around 0:30 you kill that chatter in the background without even saying a word and without breaking your train of thought. It wasn't even a particularly angry or threatening look either, but it perfectly got the point across.

Damn this guy is a fricking king. Makes a math class soooo much fun. I’d love to rewind time....jump on a plane to Australia just so I can have classes under him

I love it that an enthusiastic, young, Australian math teacher has almost a MILLION subscribers!  I’m a subscriber and I haven’t taken a math course in many decades.  He just makes it fun and interesting.

He actually understands math which I think a lot of the teachers I had didn’t.  Math is my biggest source for frustration and failure.  And I love these videos!

15:45 the knowledge has reached his destination.

Regarding the "if you have a headache thinking about infinity, that's probably a good thing" introduction: there's an infamous story that Gregor Cantor himself went mad dealing with infinities. While that's a bit reductive, there is some truth to it: Cantor was bipolar, and between the stress of his work and the stress of his colleagues dismissing his work, it aggravated his symptoms. So if you feel like dealing with infinities is too stressful and driving you mad, you're in great company! 😁

My answer to the question was addition/subtraction.   Multiplication and division is just addition/subtraction ... done over and over.

Buildung block of math: communications through symbols.

For the record: Atoms are indivisible in the sense that if you take a block of iron, and cut it in two, you have two blocks of iron. If you take two atoms of iron and cut in two, you have two separate atoms of iron. If you take an atom of iron and cut in two, it's no longer iron.

The two primitive “building blocks” of math are sets, and the relation “is an element of”, that tells us if something is or is not “in” a set.

I wish i had a teacher like Eddie when I was in secondary school

My response would be: quantities. Numbers are just one way of expressing quantities, but they aren't the only way. Now going to watch further to find out the actual answer ☺

I would have answered that the basic building blocks of maths are the axioms we have chosen.