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What would you do? (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[+] -15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Math education is basically a Time waster designed to justify hierarchies, it's tangentially related to math but not really in purpose, there's just numbers involved

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, that's one of the worst takes on math education I've ever heard.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    It's based on my personal experience being burned by the system. Endless math drills that could have just been a calculator in order tobget grade points to get into a "good college" and a job, if you're lucky. There's a reason people come away from contemporary math education completely burned out

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