billywoods wrote:oren wrote:However if your teacher taught you the wrong way to do fractions, you might have some problems. There's a 10k I see teaching on KGS a bit, and it can make me cringe.
There is that. Most people equally well reach an "asymptote" in their mathematical education, though all I really mean by that is that they have a panic attack every time they see numbers, and run far away as quickly as they can.
To be fair, that mostly originates from the typical teaching style employed in public schools:
Student: "I don't understand this."
Teacher: "You're not trying hard enough."
Student: "I've tried, but I still don't understand."
Teacher: "Do your worksheets."
Student: "The repetition doesn't help; it doesn't make sense to me."
Teacher: "I can't help you if you won't help yourself."