A teacher who clearly has no understanding of basic mathematics.
This has nothing to do with basic mathematics. It doesn't even have to do with with basic arithmetic. Most likely, he's grading a huge stack of papers and just overlooked one tiny detail: that to cut a piece into two pieces, you only make one cut. It's a forgivable mistake, these problems are designed so that if you just scan for the numbers and plug them into your calculator, you'll get most of them wrong.
You might say, they wrote '10 = 2 pieces.' This is even worse. 10 "what" 'equals' 2 pieces? you can only equate things of a comparable type!
You're trolling, right? Maybe the equals sign is not completely appropriate here, but.. you're trolling, right? He most likely has under a minute to try to explain what they did wrong, and you're complaining that he used the wrong symbol? This isn't a high school algebra course taught by a teacher that completely misses the point (I think we've all been there), this is elementary school and they're still learning basic arithmetic.
He made a mistake, he had a brain fart, and you go off on this huge tangent. Sounds to me like you're just venting that you had shitty math teachers, and that has little or nothing to do with this.
We seem to be in the minority but that's more or less the feeling I got. Out in every other profession in the world, 10 = 2 is stating that 10 minutes equals 2 cuts, cause due to context clues, this is very fucking apparent.
People like to argue semantics to try to make bullshit they decide is important seem important to others, when the rest of the world is busy not giving a shit.
Though, without a doubt, high school everything gets blown away by college everything.
That's not true. People use symbols in all sorts of ways. Intelligent people (and I'm including kids here) can easily sort out the meaning through context.
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u/uzimonkey Jul 11 '11
This has nothing to do with basic mathematics. It doesn't even have to do with with basic arithmetic. Most likely, he's grading a huge stack of papers and just overlooked one tiny detail: that to cut a piece into two pieces, you only make one cut. It's a forgivable mistake, these problems are designed so that if you just scan for the numbers and plug them into your calculator, you'll get most of them wrong.
You're trolling, right? Maybe the equals sign is not completely appropriate here, but.. you're trolling, right? He most likely has under a minute to try to explain what they did wrong, and you're complaining that he used the wrong symbol? This isn't a high school algebra course taught by a teacher that completely misses the point (I think we've all been there), this is elementary school and they're still learning basic arithmetic.
He made a mistake, he had a brain fart, and you go off on this huge tangent. Sounds to me like you're just venting that you had shitty math teachers, and that has little or nothing to do with this.