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Mostly off topic, but do USA schoolschildren get taught to use things like "number of degrees of arc", "measures in degrees" and "inverse logarithm" instead of
by dbaupp 14y ago
Mostly off topic, but do USA schoolschildren get taught to use things like "number of degrees of arc", "measures in degrees" and "inverse logarithm" instead of just "degrees" and "exponentiation"/"exponential" (and the use of the last one is the geometric mean, which is a much pithier explanation and concept).
And, a correlation of .52 isn't the same as a coin toss: that would be a correlation of 0.
- grecy 14y agoYes, they do. After 35 years teaching in Australia, my parents are now in NYC running seminars for teachers there. They are constantly shocked at the amount of time spent in classes memorizing lexicon, dates, etc. without actually learning to apply any of it. The students can very confidently regurgitate what the "number of degrees of arc" means, but they have no idea how to apply that to anything. They'll also spit out the exact date of some war, but have no idea who fought, why, or what any outcome was.
- Evbn 14y agoI have never seen a teacher or student like you describe. The ones who don't know the (purported) reason for the Civil War don't know when it started either.