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Holy shit we’re getting AgendaRune Knight slander on twitter I’m in tears

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Do you guys think Dess took her stash into the depths

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i can't get over this stupid fucking animation. i love how comically high the framerate is compared to all of his other animations. blud looks like he's boutta roundhouse kick silver the hedgehog

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Look, I know this response isn’t malicious and simply an attempt at connection, but it’s still funny and incredibly frustrating that one of the most common responses a to “oh I’m doing/enjoy [math related thing]“ is “Oh man I HATE math” despite being an insanely wild response. Like, can you imagine this in a slightly different context?

“Hey, so what are your plans this weekend?”

“Oh, I’m just gonna hang out with my best friend”

“Neat, who is it?”

“David!”

“God, I HATE David, can’t STAND him!”

Like, in almost any other context this becomes hostile. What, you expecting me to shit on something I love with you??? Really?

I just genuinely don’t know what people expect to come of this response.

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can we keep applied maths AWAY from me please

is it so hard to let me have numbers sheerly for the sake of numbers

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I might just be crazy, and idk anyone irl who knows both of these people, but I think Emily Riehl and Erika ishii sound very similar. Can someone please confirm whether or not I’m just crazy

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they should let me go to bed at 3am and wake up at 6am and still get a minimum of 12 hours of sleep in that time

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The amount of times I try to vent about a problem in math only for a friend to hit me with “shut up” or “take it to a professor” despite them venting about being stumped in their area of study not even 10 minutes before or after the interaction makes me feel a little violent.

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Can people stop putting math hate on the math tag ?????

pleaseeee like I just want to see some fun math stuff, a bunch of theorems and memes

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Can people stop putting math hate on the math tag ?????

pleaseeee like I just want to see some fun math stuff, a bunch of theorems and memes

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It’s especially frustrating because hating on math is so normalized you could probably get away with it in any other tag if you pair it with a very loose tie to said tag. So, why go out of your way to post it on the ONE tag where it won’t make any sense?

I’m already used to getting some response along the lines of “god, I hated math” the minute I mention anything about it elsewhere, why do I gotta deal with it in the MATH tags, of all places?!

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Can people stop putting math hate on the math tag ?????

pleaseeee like I just want to see some fun math stuff, a bunch of theorems and memes

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i can do anything i want to

Bonus: the original sketch version

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baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents' hoards

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I've TAed a number of math classes. And I've seen a lot of students come at math with this... axiom, that they are bad at it. They already feel like they're going to lose before they enter the room. Especially with people taking some math GE they feel like they're going to struggle through, barely pass, and not use.

And to be fair, I don't know why the university mandates calculus as a GE. Is it that hard? No. Not really. Like... most things in anyone's major are going to be harder.

But, what does a history major need with calculus?

It's not a relevant skill, and especially the way I've seen it taught, it's not shown as particularly interesting. It's taught as calculations, to the point where I've met well-meaning people that ask if I've calculated anything interesting recently because they have not even the slightest knowledge of what mathematics becomes. They aren't taught ideas. They are taught disconnected formulas and expected to apply them blindly. And then what happens is that wihh to put a fundamental understanding, they get lost on edge cases. Not because they're bad at math. Though the more clever ones can figure out edge cases, the real problem is the lesson is this large task of memorisation that misses this edge case. So they feel like math sucks. And have not the slightest idea what it is about.

And how would they? Math teaching... isn't great. I had a lot of awesome teachers as I went higher into mathematics, but very few ones in lower mathematics. This isn't just a problem with mathematics. Basically any GE is a massive class with hundreds of students, most of which are studying things completely orthogonal to the class and have next to no interest in them. And the only way to grade such a large class is by rote, oversimplified, contrived tasks. I wouldn't want to teach a GE for that reason. I imagine a lot of professors feel the same way.

There's a few alternative classes they can take instead of calculus. I happened to see that there's an introduction to logic there on the list and I decided to nose in and see what was being taught, and it was a rudimentary introduction to proofs and sentential logic, along with some fallacies and whatnot. Some amount of hand-waviness was going on but it seemed a much better beginning to mathematics than calculus. Calculus is a very important foundation to engineers and physicists and anyone going into stem, but logic feels... really fundamental? Like, just basic logical reasoning, that we do every day, formalised just a bit. It gives the students confidence in their skills, and a good foundation for the formalisation required for mathematics. And it felt more creative and less rote. And probably more connected to reality than calculus. And even if I don't like applications... a lot of people do. A lot of credit needs to go to the professor. But it did serve as an example that a large GE class can be interesting. And that calculus is a terrible travesty we inflict on future historians.

There are so many problems with education. And we often forget to teach people math is very much a creative act.

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see you at basrar's! ✶✶✶

bonus: yearbook page!

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Bad kids get icecream! ( I missed them so this was fun to make!)