• overcast5348@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m guessing that you were one of those “I won’t ever use all this math” kind of students?

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      7 months ago

      I was one of those students who asked how it would be used, the teachers didn’t do the whole real world application part, and I never needed to go past trig.

      I work with engineers and use math like any other human on the planet but really wish mathematics was taught differently to make it more interesting. You hear a PHD candidate talk about the hairy ball problem and the math is interesting. Math class never was.