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Oh god, no. Not at all, especially in the US.
by meepmorp 6y ago
Oh god, no. Not at all, especially in the US.
- jeff-davis 6y agoAre you sure? My teacher did that. It doesn't take very long, and I can definitely see someone forgetting all about it.
- setr 6y agoI distinctly remember "accidentally" deriving it when I forgot the formula on a test; perhaps my proudest math moment (though really I was just scrambling apply any rule I could think of that got me closer to the vague form I remembered) And then I got really annoyed that no one ever told me to do that before and started discounting teachers for years onwards.. probably to my own detriment.
- the_only_law 6y agoI can tell you how great my math education was. I don't even recall the quadratic formula or completing the square is. I'm almost certain they were part of the curriculum at some point. I recall in later math course, notably calculus, the teacher assumed we we're familiar with some concept because we we're supposedly taught it the prior year, yet not a single student in the class could recall it having been taught before.