@futurebird Curious, what level was this?
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When you have some students who don’t exactly love math (despite your best efforts) but who *do* care about their grades a test or exam can be an opportunity to teach a thing or two. -
Saw a post the other day: "I'm so glad I learned what a parallelogram is and NOT how to do my taxes in school."@futurebird @Dss I used to teach the "etymology" of %, as /oo or
/100, with the 1 0 moved up(anyone know why? I don't!)
And o/oo for per thousand.
I don't think I've expressed it well here tho! -
Student: But instead of writing a program to reduce the fraction could we just do it by hand?@futurebird @PetraOleum I have the privilege of teaching some seriously smart mathematicians to program.
Once, the problem was "multiply the largest 2 of the 3 inputted numbers". Most people used a couple of if. One multiplied all 3, then divided by the smallest! Sure, there are numerical analysis issues, but I love the insight. _That's_ what takes the art forward.