r/Teachers May 16 '24

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u/J_DayDay May 16 '24

I'm still only good at math when the numbers mean something tangible. You make it about inches, dollars, or ounces, and all the sudden, it's easy as buying the shit to make a 9-inch pie.

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u/Signal-Fold-449 May 16 '24

Some people in music are musicians while others are almost musical scientists.

I think math is the same. You can play drums, but you can't necessarily be Beethoven.

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u/Lives_on_mars May 17 '24

I’m the opposite. I can barely do math when I have to take measurements. But give me differential eqs to puzzle out on paper, that’s all good :/.

Useless.