So I teach math at the college level. This shit drives me up the fucking walls. "My calculator said the answer is 245,617.947, so that must be correct." We were looking for the area of a rectangle whose longer side is at most 8. Do you really think that answer makes sense, Bradley?
Yeah, I try to get my students to think for half a second about whether the answer they got makes sense before just believing it blindly. You'd really think students would have had someone in their life teach them that skill before like, Calc 2, but apparently not for a lot of them. As a math educator, the state of math education enrages and saddens me, but I'm glad you had at least one good math teacher!
So I teach math at the college level. This shit drives me up the fucking walls. "My calculator said the answer is 245,617.947, so that must be correct." We were looking for the area of a rectangle whose longer side is at most 8. Do you really think that answer makes sense, Bradley?
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Yeah, I try to get my students to think for half a second about whether the answer they got makes sense before just believing it blindly. You'd really think students would have had someone in their life teach them that skill before like, Calc 2, but apparently not for a lot of them. As a math educator, the state of math education enrages and saddens me, but I'm glad you had at least one good math teacher!
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translation: "I'm going to use the 'college professors don't give a damn about you' cliche to not have to care about you"
Literally every college professor I had was more than willing to spend even a few hours helping me learn shit I didn't understand.
I'm in a non-math class with some math and the teacher said, "sometimes my students ask me what 'tan' is and I say it's a button on the calculator."