@sahat @SarahDelahunty @CynAq @actuallyautistic the thinking around not being able to describe how you get to a math answer is, i believe, that without that you have no way of knowing you're correct.
Like, your kid may be a math savant, and they may be always right, but the steps to get there provide the ability to _prove_ that it's the right answer. For High School level stuff i agree it doesn't matter. But verification of correctness is critical for high level math usage.
@masukomi @sahat @SarahDelahunty @CynAq @actuallyautistic The issue is: School Math is not about being useful to YOU, its mostly about .. IDK .. keeping people busy.
I always had very bad grades in anything school math related, but the teachers couldnt stop complaining on how I apparently "understood it, but couldnt apply" it. I blame having learned programming at an early age for that. School math is just some vast theoretical blah, that is some removed from reality .. *shakes head*
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