• Vaggumon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “You need to know how to do this, you won’t always have a calculator on you.”

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        1 year ago

        Only bad teachers have ever said that. But I doubt they do now that everyone has a calculator on their phone.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve heard the “won’t always have a calculator” line, but more impressive was the one time our math teacher demonstrated the ability to solve the problem on the blackboard faster than we could whip out our calculators and punch in the numbers.

          She showed her work, too.

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          From family members now in elementary/middle school, yeah they still do. Or they use brain training as an excuse.

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        I think the problem is it’s taught in a really bad way.

        I remember having to do all sorts of trigonometry stuff, but I don’t think anybody ever explained why this would be useful.