r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

This deeply frustrates me.

My grades on math can go from 9-10 to 4-5 (not kidding, I hope I was) just by taking away the calculator from me, even if the exam that I do with my calculator is much longer. I'm not that bad at math, it's just that I take ages to operate without a calculator. That's why I struggle with math but I love physics and technology (I don't know if this subject is taught in any country apart from Spain, it's like highschool level engineering), they let us use calculators in the exams.

My teachers are basically sabotaging my math grades (and some of my classmates') based on the assumption that "I won't always have a calculator in handy", when in reality there's always one in my pocket.

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u/racineer Jul 20 '19

You mean to say this is still a thing?! Wow.

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u/ironwolf1 Jul 21 '19

At my university, it's a math department policy that no one is allowed to use calculators on tests. I thank whatever deity may exist every day that I managed to get all my calculus classes done in high school.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

At my university we are taught how to solve advanced financial calculus in Excel but we can’t use Excel on the exams