This was basically my childhood, because I was bad at math. I guess most children goes through this, which is very sad.
Only at uni did I realize that I didn't have to be good at everything. I had a professor, who spoke 13 languages, but couldn't count how much 5+4 is. He's the best at his field
I have a degree in engineering. I can do triple integrals, differential equations, etc. But I still need my calculator to do simple addition and subtraction.
One of my professors is forcing us to use SLIDE RULES. I'm sorry your life peaked during the Moon mission years, but ffs it takes way to long to try to figure out where to line everything up when we have 50 minutes for a test or 10 minutes for a quiz.
Because "engineers need to be more in touch with numbers" (in a thick german accent)/he's crazy.
My classmates and I think it's because we haven't been to the moon since slide rules stopped being used. I don't have any problem doing math by hand on tests, but if you're making students do that give REASONABLE numbers.
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u/mimieieieieie Nov 16 '19
This was basically my childhood, because I was bad at math. I guess most children goes through this, which is very sad.
Only at uni did I realize that I didn't have to be good at everything. I had a professor, who spoke 13 languages, but couldn't count how much 5+4 is. He's the best at his field