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Every now and again I think my highfalutin college courses were an overpriced waste, and then a conversation like this comes along and I see that the fundamenta
by Evbn 14y ago
Every now and again I think my highfalutin college courses were an overpriced waste, and then a conversation like this comes along and I see that the fundamentals of my courses are apparently radical and unheard of most other places.
Do schools really not teach the underlying concepts of math, or do people just fail to understand them the first time through and then blame their teachers?
/took linear algebra in the math department, then TAed it.
- marshallp 14y agoThey were a waste. You paid an arm and a leg to learn some spreadsheet manipulation functions.
- shardling 14y ago>Do schools really not teach the underlying concepts of math, or do people just fail to understand them the first time through and then blame their teachers? It is absolutely the case that a great many students will not remember seeing material that they definitely were exposed to. As someone who's TA'd physics classes for a few years, I'd often ask a recitation whether they'd covered some particular subject yet in lecture, and they'd often say (as a class) no. I'd ask the professor later, and of course they had -- but students rarely go into lecture having done the reading or prep work, and so have a piss-poor retention rate.
- snogglethorpe 14y ago> students rarely go into lecture having done the reading or prep work, and so have a piss-poor retention rate. I've found that even if do the reading, my brain is often, well, a bit leaky... TT