Comment on What would you do?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day agoMath education is basically a Time waster designed to justify hierarchies, it’s tangentially related to math but not really in purpose, there’s just numbers involved
Comment on What would you do?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day agoMath education is basically a Time waster designed to justify hierarchies, it’s tangentially related to math but not really in purpose, there’s just numbers involved
olafurp@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Wow, that’s one of the worst takes on math education I’ve ever heard.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
It’s based on my personal experience being burned by the system. Endless math drills that could have just been a calculator in order tobget grade points to get into a “good college” and a job, if you’re lucky. There’s a reason people come away from contemporary math education completely burned out