• blind3rdeye
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    1 month ago

    Why are these posts always shitting on teachers? I don’t know what teachers you’re seeing, but I’ve never seen any teacher of any subject / age-group ever discourage anyone for thinking about something a different way. Quite the contrary, different ways of approaching problems are always encouraged.

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      My math teacher (at a private school) was just a random students’ mom. She had no higher degree and only taught the book. If you got the right answer by using a method not included in the book, it was marked half-credit because she didn’t understand and wasn’t interested in hearing your logic, because “that’s not what the book says”.

      Being taught by people who have no drive for knowledge and just want to teach the standardized test answers SUCKS.

    • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.com
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      I had to memorize multiplication. We weren’t taught any other way. 3x3 = 9 because it just is that way, memorize it. I had stacks of flash cards. My mom struggled so hard for weeks to teach me my multiplication tables at home. In the end, I (somehow) passed the multiplication quiz or whatever and did my best to do as little multiplication as I could for the rest of my life. As a result, I still have never learned all the multiplication tables, and have a deep dislike of math or numbers in general.

      I bet my education would have been a lot different if I could have learned how to multiply effectively from a young age.

      • TachyonTele
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        1 month ago

        Same here. Multiples are just a memorized table in my head. I look at solutions like the one in this meme and having never been taught anything like that, I just shrug and add 7 to 9.

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      29 days ago

      Because there are plenty of bad teachers who are either bad at their job or don’t care about students, and bad apples always ruin the bunch.