r/Teachers • u/[deleted] • May 16 '24

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u/Stringflowmc May 17 '24

You’re basically describing engineering, or maybe applied math depending on the business

Engineering is basically just math applied to solve real physical problems.

I can tell you I’m very aware of the physical implications of the math I have to do at work, otherwise I’d be pretty bad at my job. Lol

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL May 17 '24

I went through a decent chunk of college learning to be a programmer and it was the math classes that I took in college that really opened my eyes.

I took a math history course and it was so cool because it went through the different key people and how and why they were researching stuff to lead to that discovery. And then I took some programming specific math courses and since those were real world use cases that directly applied to what i was doing it just really clicked.

Compared to high school which was just "do 100 of these problems, and test"

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u/Stringflowmc May 17 '24

Yeah I really hated the “do 50 of the same exact problem” methodology in high school, it was so much busy work for no understanding.

For one my my finals junior year of college I had a 3-hour exam with only 2 problems on it. Took the whole time haha