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arrow-up1134imageEvery yearpiefed.cdn.blahaj.zoneLadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to General Memes & Private Chuckle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squarerafoix@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up41·3 months agoI feel like half the planet seems to have a noticeable hard limit to their brain and it angers them to be taught anything beyond 3rd grade math.
minus-squarelumpyluggage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThere must be some sort of hard limit to how much you can store in your brain, no?
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 months agoMaybe, but not a relevant one here. We don’t teach math so you can remember every single fact you’re told, we teach it so you can develop mathematical reasoning skills. Reacquiring those facts as needed is simple when using them feels familiar.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoYeah but it turns out that’s actually more than a human can do in a lifetime.
I feel like half the planet seems to have a noticeable hard limit to their brain and it angers them to be taught anything beyond 3rd grade math.
There must be some sort of hard limit to how much you can store in your brain, no?
Maybe, but not a relevant one here. We don’t teach math so you can remember every single fact you’re told, we teach it so you can develop mathematical reasoning skills. Reacquiring those facts as needed is simple when using them feels familiar.
Yeah but it turns out that’s actually more than a human can do in a lifetime.