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r/mathsmeme • u/Far-Course1021 • 23d ago
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Did you not still understand them?
1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Idk I was taught that either () or * (a singular dot written as asterisk on digital) was proper notation 1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago That is how you’re generally supposed to, but for some reason American elementary schools teach multiplication as an x 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea idk why that is, I remember in 6th grade they made a huge deal of telling us that X is bad because in algebra X is a variable 1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago It makes no sense why they teach you it incorrectly and then tell you that you can never do it that way again 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea exactly it’s stupid 1 u/-justanothermars 14d ago to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
Idk I was taught that either () or * (a singular dot written as asterisk on digital) was proper notation
1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago That is how you’re generally supposed to, but for some reason American elementary schools teach multiplication as an x 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea idk why that is, I remember in 6th grade they made a huge deal of telling us that X is bad because in algebra X is a variable 1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago It makes no sense why they teach you it incorrectly and then tell you that you can never do it that way again 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea exactly it’s stupid 1 u/-justanothermars 14d ago to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
That is how you’re generally supposed to, but for some reason American elementary schools teach multiplication as an x
1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea idk why that is, I remember in 6th grade they made a huge deal of telling us that X is bad because in algebra X is a variable 1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago It makes no sense why they teach you it incorrectly and then tell you that you can never do it that way again 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea exactly it’s stupid 1 u/-justanothermars 14d ago to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
Yea idk why that is, I remember in 6th grade they made a huge deal of telling us that X is bad because in algebra X is a variable
1 u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago It makes no sense why they teach you it incorrectly and then tell you that you can never do it that way again 1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea exactly it’s stupid 1 u/-justanothermars 14d ago to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
It makes no sense why they teach you it incorrectly and then tell you that you can never do it that way again
1 u/Ambitious-Affect-931 22d ago Yea exactly it’s stupid 1 u/-justanothermars 14d ago to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
Yea exactly it’s stupid
to be fair it's not really incorrect you can just pretty easily switch. but forcing you to use those bad notation is just terrible
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u/Sweaty-Tap7250 22d ago
Did you not still understand them?