AggressivelyPassive

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  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlMath
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    6 days ago

    Maybe you were just at a bad school? Quadratic equations are mandatory in Germany even for the lowest level of graduation.

    Until my Abitur (12th grade) I learned about equations, stochastics, integrals and derivatives, vector stuff, etc.


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    6 days ago

    That’s software development for you. Why is that weird value there? Because some guy, at some point, had checked for that and somehow it’s still relevant.

    I know of a system that churns through literally millions of transactions representing millions of Euros every day, and their interface has load bearing typos (because Germans in the 90s were really bad at the Englishs).


  • If you actually want to learn maths (that is, if you’re not just venting), you could try to ask for help in dedicated math or teaching communities.

    The problem with teaching stuff you know, is to put yourself in a position of actually not knowing anything. I’m a software developer and had to teach some apprentices a few years ago, and it was really eye opening to me to see how much assumptions about the apprentice’s knowledge I made even though I thought I made my explanation “basic”.

    It’s quite possible that all the tutorials you’ve read are either for literal children, so they just don’t work for your adult brain, or they’re intended for adults and assume too much.

    On a personal note: how did you get into that situation? Were you home schooled?