• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Why are these posts always shitting on teachers? I don’t know what teachers you’re seeing, but I’ve never seen any teacher of any subject / age-group ever discourage anyone for thinking about something a different way. Quite the contrary, different ways of approaching problems are always encouraged.

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My math teacher (at a private school) was just a random students’ mom. She had no higher degree and only taught the book. If you got the right answer by using a method not included in the book, it was marked half-credit because she didn’t understand and wasn’t interested in hearing your logic, because “that’s not what the book says”.

      Being taught by people who have no drive for knowledge and just want to teach the standardized test answers SUCKS.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Same here. Multiples are just a memorized table in my head. I look at solutions like the one in this meme and having never been taught anything like that, I just shrug and add 7 to 9.