I remmeber in high schooo they were like, prove that x=5 or w/e anf i was jusy likr what thr fuck do you mean just look at it you koron. All i remember from that was they had all these papers with boxes on them and were like oooohhh whatre the steps, i dunno dumbadd jusy look at it
That wasn't a dig at teachers btw, they have to work with the shitty system too
For sure, my spouse is a math teacher and I respect her work very much. It's just that we aren't even honest in our system about what exactly we're teaching that we're calling math.