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   Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:19:55 JST Another Linux Walt Alt

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   • jb55
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   It also matters who teaches it and what they teach. I had one of the best high school math teachers ever. He'd been a mathematician for the space program and almost all his exercises were aerospace related. But he also taught us to see math in everyday life.
   
   For the students, who'd been in elementary school when Apollo XI landed on the moon, this was perfect.
   
   The next class's instructor was also great. Honestly, if it wasn't for Math courses, high school would have been a complete waste. That's about the only subject where I've ever used anything they taught in almost half a century of post-high school living.
   
   Some of my classmates wound up doing things like calculating SQRT(2) to 100+ decimal places over the Summer. But that was neither promoted nor encouraged.
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     jb55 (32e1827635450ebb3c5a7d12c1f8e7b2b514439ac10a67eef3d9fd9c5c68e245@mostr.pub)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 00:19:56 JST jb55
     yeah it makes no sense. I never enjoyed math until I actually needed it, like linear algebra for building games. I think I was in my 20s when I finally decided to learn it for real. my math classes growing up were useless.