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 Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:18pm |
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Math is just following steps and remembering formulas. |
don't forget...and critical thinking...well...to actually be any good at it that is....
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:19pm |
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Well yea you have to be able to figure out with steps and formulas will work.
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:19pm |
ThoughtCouture wrote:
Sang Froid wrote:
Math is just following steps and remembering formulas. |
don't forget...and critical thinking...well...to actually be any good at it that is.... |
indeed. You cannot always look at a test and go... oh you can plug it into such and such formula and BAM there's your answer. I wish it were that easy. 
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:32pm |
Sang Froid wrote:
Well yea you have to be able to figure out with steps and formulas will work. |
yep...as well as being able to determine when/how to apply in real life.
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:34pm |
That would be called intelligence. I don't think you can learn how to be intelligent.
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:39pm |
Sang Froid wrote:
That would be called intelligence.
I don't think you can learn how to be intelligent. |
interesting...maybe not taught...but practice will certainly hone those critical thinking skills...
imo, you are taught how to put into practice what is learned mathically/technically in college, at least i was...
of course, with discipline one can do this for themselves. i would say that is the case with any curriculum in this day and age tho actually...
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:42pm |
ThoughtCouture wrote:
Sang Froid wrote:
That would be called intelligence.
I don't think you can learn how to be intelligent. |
interesting...maybe not taught...but practice will certainly hone those critical thinking skills...
imo, you are taught how to put into practice what is learned mathically/technically in college, at least i was...
of course, with discipline one can do this for themselves. i would say that is the case with any curriculum in this day and age tho actually... |
Lol. You aren't really "taught" anything in college. sh*t is spoken to you and you're responsible for remembering and figuring out its use on your own basically....which is why if I can't see the point of something from the beginning....I'll never learn it.
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:44pm |
_ConcreteRose_ wrote:
Sang Froid wrote:
Math is just following steps and remembering formulas. |
At the lower lever yes, once you get up there is gets way harder than that. |
this, then you add phyics....lawd!1
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:55pm |
EPITOME wrote:
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you can take an AP course without taking the exam?i don't get it.
sounds like a plot from schools to boost kids GPAs. |
my hs bf never took his AP exams. primarily bc he didn't want to ask him mom for the money. they weren't that well off. but at the time he had got a 1590/1600 on his psat and a 1500 on his SAT colleges weren't pressed. |
we paid for AP exams??? man... lol. 
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Posted: Nov 30 2012 at 12:56pm |
Sang Froid wrote:
ThoughtCouture wrote:
Sang Froid wrote:
That would be called intelligence.
I don't think you can learn how to be intelligent. |
interesting...maybe not taught...but practice will certainly hone those critical thinking skills...
imo, you are taught how to put into practice what is learned mathically/technically in college, at least i was...
of course, with discipline one can do this for themselves. i would say that is the case with any curriculum in this day and age tho actually... |
Lol. You aren't really "taught" anything in college.
sh*t is spoken to you and you're responsible for remembering and figuring out its use on your own basically....which is why if I can't see the point of something from the beginning....I'll never learn it. |
hmmmm...in that case...the same would apply to grade school and hs. you are expected to come to the table with the necessary pre-requisites for a given class.
i was really referring to labs and such.
but anyway, i will say there are some teachers/professors who are better at connecting the why.
i used to tutor math students in hs and college. the biggest thing blocking their understanding was the "why". i would always try and find a way to get them to think in terms of their interests to get them to see how and why something would be used.
all of the people i tutored did MUCH better after....if i do say so myself...ahem...ahem...lol
i even tutored my aunt in college algebra over the phone...lawd....that was sort of a mess. i was living in nyc and she was here. i got her thru it over the phone tho...lol
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