To be fair, that mostly originates from the typical teaching style employed in public schools:billywoods wrote:There is that. Most people equally well reach an "asymptote" in their mathematical education, though all I really mean by that is that they have a panic attack every time they see numbers, and run far away as quickly as they can.oren wrote:However if your teacher taught you the wrong way to do fractions, you might have some problems. There's a 10k I see teaching on KGS a bit, and it can make me cringe.
Student: "I don't understand this."
Teacher: "You're not trying hard enough."
Student: "I've tried, but I still don't understand."
Teacher: "Do your worksheets."
Student: "The repetition doesn't help; it doesn't make sense to me."
Teacher: "I can't help you if you won't help yourself."