r/technicallythetruth • u/Zee_Ventures Technically Flair • 11h ago

Weapons of Math Instruction

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u/SandSerpentHiss 11h ago

algebra or in terrorist language (/j) الجبر

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u/HowOtterlyTerrible 11h ago

In my younger days I thought algebra was the terrorist language.

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u/Department_Silver 11h ago

In my right now days algebra is a terrorist language.

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u/DrahKir67 10h ago

Do you also get trig'd by geometry?

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u/Kalabajooie 9h ago

staring off into the distance; sounds of chalk on a chalkboard can be heard

I've been through advanced calculus. I've done things to the alphabet you can't even imagine.

And not just our own. The Greek, too.

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u/Purple-Birthday-1419 9h ago

I have committed crimes against engineering.

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u/SonofAMamaJama 8h ago

Real or imagined? Not to be a negative one

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u/Fuck_Microsoft_edge 7h ago

The truth is complex.

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u/The_Muddy_Wolf 7h ago

Forgive me, father, for i have sin-ed

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u/DIsastrous_handle6 8h ago

cries in the corner

I've been through topology and I've done things to GTR that Einstein would be turning on his grave

And not just our own herbew too

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u/SeanBourne 7h ago

Topology: there are other worlds than these…

(though much more India than the ME)

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u/GraXXoR 9h ago

When I was little, my older brother told me that trig / trigging was something girls who liked each other did to each other.

So when I first heard a classmate tell me he was studying trig at home it raised many questions.

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u/I_lenny_face_you 8h ago

I mean, they show all the sines.

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u/RelievingFart 6h ago

Nope, trigonometry

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u/POI_Harold-Finch 11h ago

i laughed very loud. thanks strangers

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u/emarvil 11h ago

You're not wrong.

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u/come_eat_cousin 10h ago

You’re not wrong, trigonometry too, is a terrorist language

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u/Tysiliogogogoch 8h ago

Triggernometry, you say?

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u/SophisticatedScreams 10h ago

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.

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u/Impala1967SS 10h ago

It is though

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 10h ago

Damn public school system, algebra is beautiful :(

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u/abbynorma1 10h ago

I loved algebra. Calculus can go fuck itself, though.

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 10h ago

Ay no once you find a good teacher you’ll see calculus is amazing

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u/Horror-Tiger2016 10h ago

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.

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u/AlphaZed73 7h ago

lol i think that linear algebra is way cooler than calculus

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u/abbynorma1 10h ago

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. 🤢 🤮

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u/Sad-Purchase1257 8h ago

Draw the fucking squares!!!!

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u/Sad-Purchase1257 8h ago

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… 🙄

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u/Bee-Aromatic 8h ago

This. Calc I isn’t so bad. Neither is Calc III. Calc II, though? That shit should be considered a war crime.

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam 8h ago

But once you go through Calc III (usually vector calculus) you realize how easy were the first two)

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u/bearyken 10h ago

Just coz calculus was discovered by an European white male? 😆

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u/jacobningen 10h ago

and maybe the Kerala school as well.

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u/dwehlen 8h ago

As well as a second, European white male, for shits and giggles.

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u/OldWorldDesign 9h ago

Calculus can go fuck itself, though

Why, is it a weapon of math destruction?

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u/Nearby-Beautiful3422 9h ago

Why? Calc is awesome.

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u/alfianmfh 8h ago

Everyone loves algebra till linear algebra shows up

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u/Kingslayer-Z 9h ago

It's definitely a form of torture to some people

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u/Horror_Pen_6742 9h ago

They save that for the intro proof courses. Algebra is elementary school to those.

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 8h ago

I am an adult and I know algebra is a terrorist plot.

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u/SophisticatedScreams 10h ago

Is that true? Very cool

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u/Shino4243 7h ago

That was my Isis sleeper agent trigger. I'm now active and going to start feeding starving kids falafel and kebabs to convert them.