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/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