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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:33:00 JST goatsarah

   • Eleanor LNR Blair
   @lnr a lot of this is not using stuff, but knowing that you can.
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     Alison Kiddle (alisonkiddle@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 21:08:05 JST Alison Kiddle

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     • Eleanor LNR Blair

     @goatsarah @lnr whenever this sort of thing comes up, my response is always that the useful thing about learning maths is not necessarily the content but learning how to solve a particular type of problem and think in a certain way. Unfortunately, the way maths is examined means the learning to think aspect is often sidelined in favour of learning to jump through hoops

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     Llwynog (llwynog@eupolicy.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 04:39:32 JST Llwynog

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     • Alison Kiddle
     • Eleanor LNR Blair

     @alisonkiddle @goatsarah @lnr also how maths is taught, wrongly, as being almost entirely abstract. I'm sure there are many ways to use algebra on a day-to-day basis, but I was never taught any real life applications and so I don't use it, but I wish I could. I paid close attention when my teacher was talking about recognising misleading graphs because I recognised the relevance, whereas the rest of maths didn't seem relevant to me when I was 16 😞

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