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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They didn’t teach stuff like this in school, which is silly. This is the kind of thing that a kid would eat up. It’s like they wanted to make sure people hated math.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My experience of maths in high school was being taught a trick or method to solve a really specific type of problem every week. Sometimes the method would build off something we’d learnt the previous week.

    The whole thing was bottom-up learning where you get given piecemeal nuggets of information but never see the big picture. They completely lost me at around the age of 15. I eventually came back to maths later in life after studying formal logic in my philosophy undergrad degree.

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  • Zacryon@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess I was one of the lucky few who learned this in elementary school. And later again.

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I first saw the nine times finger trick in the movie ‘Stand And Deliver.’ I remember seeing it written out on a blackboard at some point, but never the finger trick.

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