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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves? -
The genus name for American harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex, means "bearded ant", and it refers to a basket of hairs on the underside of the head that helps these desert ants carry dry sand.The basket is called a psammophore and if that isn't a five dollar word I don't know one.
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Got threatened by a rock on my way home, this neighborhood is fuckedLook at it. It's crazed.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?I didn't mean that you were off base. (Nor do I think you have anything to apologize for. )
It's fine to prefer a certain notation ... but the notation isn't really what it's about. I'm just suggesting that as a thread to pull to get past what isn't as important here.
I'm very particular about notation because I know it can be confusing as I explain here:
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
@jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org We use the numbers consistently because I find using three letters is more confusing for most students. eg ∠ABC = ∠BCA vs. ∠3 = ∠2 Which do you find less confusing? We could also do ∠B = ∠C but naming angles by single letter is a bad habit since there can be multiple angles at a vertex.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?The things that are the same are what we are really trying to talk about.
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By far the LARGEST growth in people arrested by ICE and thrown into detention centers across the country are from people with absolutely no criminal history on record.The reason why it can never stop expanding and taking in new people is because the promise it is built on is a lie.
"criminal immigrants" were the cause of all of what was wrong with the world. If they are gone and those problems remain what does that mean?
It means the notion that this was the problem at all was a lie.
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By far the LARGEST growth in people arrested by ICE and thrown into detention centers across the country are from people with absolutely no criminal history on record.That they have "move on" to more sympathetic targets exposes the nature of the beast that they have created.
There will never be a day when ICE proudly announces "We have arrested and deported all of the criminal immigrants in the USA and will stay on top of it as new cases come up with a smaller operation."
Nor will they ever say "There are now no longer any significant number of people in the country illegally."
The net will keep expanding that is how this works.
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By far the LARGEST growth in people arrested by ICE and thrown into detention centers across the country are from people with absolutely no criminal history on record.They have run out of people with "histories" to arrest.
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I have just learned that sora may be losing 15 million dollars per day serving video to it's mostly non-paying or paying very little users.I have just learned that sora may be losing 15 million dollars per day serving video to it's mostly non-paying or paying very little users.
If they were making 15 million dollars per day I would lament how people will do things that make the world worse for money.
But.
It's not even that bad. It is somehow worse.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
Tracing paper isn't really making a copy. It's just the same figure again. As I see it anyways.
But my point here is that it take two "measurements" with these tools.
I'm going to use some of this I think. Very cool stuff.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
Absolutely.
But if you want to copy an angle to a new location that won't help.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
OK great. I still don't see how to cut two slices that are the same size from the identical circles without measuring with the ruler or using the compass again.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
The peak is the angle at the center, right? I don't see a "cross"
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
But how would you get the angle at the center exactly the same with just ruler?
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?We use this system, but asking which angles are the same when they are marked like this isn't testing the concept I'm getting at.
It's called "decoration" or "tic marks" and the little marks on the sides of the original triangle I posted are a part of the same system.
I would expect a student to mark the angles like this based on the way the sides are marked. My struggling student would make the wrong two the same.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
This is a very deep mathematical question in a way. Why do we do geometric constructions with a "straight edge" and compass and not a ruler and compass?
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?@Bumblefish @3TomatoesShort @EverydayMoggie
Rulers are less precise than a compass. You could use a ruler if you wanted. But it will only be as precise as the markings you have made on the ruler.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?Absolutely. If I had 30 students I would not do the compass work. And that would be a big loss, but I would not be able to go around the room and help enough of them to hold it correctly, and keeping that many compasses sharp and ready to go is too much work.
Likewise teaching them to sharpen the lead on the compass is too much of a class time-sink. (although it's a very cool skill to have)
I bring only working compasses with sharp lead to class.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?Well then you are making triangles in a different plane or triangular prisms maybe.
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Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?Also different populations of students have different needs. So, maybe I would switch if I thought it would work better with a new group.
I make a big deal about introducing the Greek letters in the spring when we start trig. This gives them time to learn how to write them.
So they do learn them by the end of the year? New symbols are a big deal and deserve space. Don't just spring them on people. I do find the numbers a little "janky" from a pure maths lens.