They teach math from like 6th grade up as if every middle schooler in the land is going to grow up to be a sweater wearing chalkboard writing mathematician when they grow up. It’s taught as a series of arbitrary rules to follow. Here’s some squiggles, and now you do this to the squiggles. NO you don’t do that to the squiggles, do you want to be a ditch digger you fucking waste of sperm. You do THIS to the squiggles. Can’t you FUCKING tell the difference you little cuntpuke? You use the Crendicative property of intiplicity. No, it’s not five, it’s negative three. It’s obviously negative three, What idiot would get five? I know you got five and not some other number because this is designed to be a trick question. There’s only one point in this big long procedure that matters, if you decide correctly you get negative three, if you decide incorrectly you get five. And you got five.
I actually learned math in physics class. Because in physics class, the equations mean something. They represent a relationship between things that you can grasp. There are built-in sniff tests. You can go “Wait, the ball rolled off the table and then…started moving toward the ceiling? That’s not right, where did I…Oh I subtracted a negative number, I should have added a negative number.”
From Kindergarten up to about middle school, they teach by practical example. “You have two apples, and you buy two more, you have four apples.” “If you have two pizzas, each cut into 8 slices, you eat 5 slices from one and 6 slices from another, how many pizzas do you have left?” That stopped entirely in middle school to be replaced with “Here are abstract rules to apply to abstract numbers, and instead of explaining why here are paragraphs of “proofs” written in a logic system we won’t teach you anything about and therefore mean nothing to you, memorize it verbatim so you can write it on the test.”
Yeah I’m not compatible with math class as I’ve seen it taught. I can do math when it means something. Arbitrary meaningless bullshit busywork full of gotchas? Nah, I’m not doing it.
My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers didn’t exist because having less than zero is impossible. I think I’m justified in being bitter about my education.
Yeah you’re right that they act like everyone’s gonna be a pure mathematician with only abstract applications. I think test standards have kinda fucked with their expectations. I’m sorry you had bad math teachers. Many of them suck at explaining the subject and act like dicks. Get enough of them in school and it’s easy to lose interest in something that’s extremely practical to know later in life.
They teach math from like 6th grade up as if every middle schooler in the land is going to grow up to be a sweater wearing chalkboard writing mathematician when they grow up. It’s taught as a series of arbitrary rules to follow. Here’s some squiggles, and now you do this to the squiggles. NO you don’t do that to the squiggles, do you want to be a ditch digger you fucking waste of sperm. You do THIS to the squiggles. Can’t you FUCKING tell the difference you little cuntpuke? You use the Crendicative property of intiplicity. No, it’s not five, it’s negative three. It’s obviously negative three, What idiot would get five? I know you got five and not some other number because this is designed to be a trick question. There’s only one point in this big long procedure that matters, if you decide correctly you get negative three, if you decide incorrectly you get five. And you got five.
They do this to you for your entire adolescence.
So you’re bad at maths and extremely bitter about it. Ok.
I actually learned math in physics class. Because in physics class, the equations mean something. They represent a relationship between things that you can grasp. There are built-in sniff tests. You can go “Wait, the ball rolled off the table and then…started moving toward the ceiling? That’s not right, where did I…Oh I subtracted a negative number, I should have added a negative number.”
From Kindergarten up to about middle school, they teach by practical example. “You have two apples, and you buy two more, you have four apples.” “If you have two pizzas, each cut into 8 slices, you eat 5 slices from one and 6 slices from another, how many pizzas do you have left?” That stopped entirely in middle school to be replaced with “Here are abstract rules to apply to abstract numbers, and instead of explaining why here are paragraphs of “proofs” written in a logic system we won’t teach you anything about and therefore mean nothing to you, memorize it verbatim so you can write it on the test.”
Yeah I’m not compatible with math class as I’ve seen it taught. I can do math when it means something. Arbitrary meaningless bullshit busywork full of gotchas? Nah, I’m not doing it.
My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers didn’t exist because having less than zero is impossible. I think I’m justified in being bitter about my education.
Yeah you’re right that they act like everyone’s gonna be a pure mathematician with only abstract applications. I think test standards have kinda fucked with their expectations. I’m sorry you had bad math teachers. Many of them suck at explaining the subject and act like dicks. Get enough of them in school and it’s easy to lose interest in something that’s extremely practical to know later in life.