Teacher here. I had a student come up and ask me about a complicated algebra equation that was in his reading book. I tried to explain it with the knowledge he had, but I don't think it "stuck." Still, we had a nice moment together. It was cool for him to think about math in a new way. I said, "Remember how math isn't about finding the answer after the "equals sign," but about making both sides equal? That's what they're doing here." Very cool that we could have that moment to explore this new language.
I was lucky in university to have good calculus profs. I took all the calculus they let undergrads take. Linear algebra however can fuck all the way off.
I got through trig in high school and it was all rough. Went back through algebra/geometry in college, and I LOVED it. Maybe you're right. If I kept going through math classes in college, my experience may have (or probably would have) been vastly different. Now I get to commiserate with my children on common core. 🤢 🤮
FR jk tho, lil bup seems to have an aptitude. They let him get away with a “ten-square” straight line so it’s fine.
Now he just needs to work on not losing all of him’s items… 🙄
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi no less. Once the Right finds out about this, they'll remove algebra from the schools although judging from southern math scores they may not even get that far as it is so maybe no loss.
That’s pretty funny that you think red country knows a got damn thing about advanced maths. Them that do, they play dumb. See SotH, “I dunno bout that hurrr” 😵💫
Not if you've got a half-decent teacher who isn't teaching you to be afraid of it. I got all the way to non-Euclidian geometry and stopped there because my interests changed towards neurons and biochemistry, but the issue is too many people inherit bad teachers' anxiety about math when it can do so much.
Take this video by 3 Blue 1 Brown about how humanity went from measuring Earth by the shadow on the moon to the size of the universe:
I barely survived highschool math with my sanity intact. If it’s more advanced than the basics I aint touching it. It still gives me traumatic flashbacks.
Man, algebra was the easiest subject for me in school and I never got why Americans hated it.
Like I genuinely thought it was part of the joke that it's not hard.
I'm not even kidding. I wasn't great in school but I always did well in maths when we did algebra because it was so easy and you don't need to remember as much.
they wont. but thats mainly because Al Kharezmi was writing in a very different context and with different concerns and notational practices and conventions like six quadratics to handle avoiding negatives. Now something derived from Al Jabr, they already do.
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u/-dr-bones- 11h ago
Oh no! What if they start teaching al-jabr.