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Mathematicians frequently use phrases like It’s obvious or It’s easy to see, which can be profoundly discouraging for a student who does not immediately find a concept simple. In math, grappling with extremely difficult problems is part of the learning process. “A challenging experience,” Ardila told me, “can easily become an alienating one.” It’s especially important to make sure that students are not discouraged during early challenges—what’s hard to see now may become easier in time. He struck this typically demoralizing math language from his teaching.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/09/bias-math-sexism-racism/620207/
Sometimes you just need it explained like you are five or something that was explained earlier in the “concepts” section of the textbook needs to be explained explicitly during the problem demonstration sections. And on top of that repeated explanation of the same concept is another key factor in solidifying concepts but I’ve found math and physics books to be so lacking in this that it’s as if they are trying to hit the absolute minimum number of word count a textbook can have. Was very frustrating during college.
This is something I’ve been thinking about recently, I’ll see something that is way too complex for me, and think “well this person is just smarter I could never do that.” After 3 months of doing simpler stuff, it now seems challenging but doable, and I even see flaws in the way they did it. Just doing something for long enough, even pretty complex things become second nature.
I’m too stupid for this
Obviously…
That one is “evidently”. It wasn’t obvious until you tried.
… obviously /s
that’s how athletes talk in interviews to avoid saying anything
If you have to tell someone something, it means the something is not obvious.
Trivial.
Naive.
Elegant.
“Energy”.
“Entropy”.
I mean… lasers, man… how DO they work?“I’m Too Stupid For This.”
Amen!
“What?”the strangest yet most profound things find me while im on shrooms. or maybe that’s only when i start noticing them…
this post makes so much sense, yet the more i think about it the less sense it makes.
im gonna go touch grass and look at the electeic spiders and the strange webs they weave now
holy shit i solved it.
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO DO SOMETHING
well, i guess to do absolutely nothing and die is still something to do 🤷😅😂
