I followed every step of that, up to the last stage, which I didn't follow merely because it was something I hadn't been taught and I'm not good with math.
I told you once that I didn't follow math because I'd been told that I wasn't supposed to. because I was a girl? I don't think that's technically true: I was just taught it by bad teachers (i.e., my mother's boyfriend when I was still in kindergarten, yeah, I know it's nuts, but the sonofabitch made me cry and I was just three, you know?)
This isn't something I *can't* learn, it's just something I haven't learned, and I don't see a screaming need to learn it in the near future.
There are a lot of cultural things that go into our horrible, horrible math education. And yeah, I can completely understand that if you had a punishing bastard as a teacher early on you would never see any interest in going any farther. And the whole thing is a shame, because math and logic are such great ways to teach each other. You don't need math to get at logic, but it saves you a hell of a lot of work if you have some intuition from geometry.
But it's good to know that what I worked out was clear. The whole thing still makes me self-conscious. I recorded 20 of those today, and there was a lot of taping oer myself as I made mistakes, over expalined, under explained and the like.
Did my unpolished hands gross you out? I actually had a fight with my co-worker about colloquialisms in these things. She was unhappy with me calling terms 'suckers', for example. Nail paint or clever messages on my hands would likely cause conflict.
I think I'd have a massive tendency to under explain. I looked at it and my brain just -- DID it. The step with treating the fourth power as the square of a square? I know fourth powers of very small integers cold, and forget squaring the square as needed.
Oh, believe me, I understand. And if you'll believe it, the criticism I got from admin was that I was talking too fast and skipping too many steps. Like I should have justified the step of squaring the square, rather than assuming that they new that property of exponents.
Also, in a total non sequitir, we are having people over tomorrow (and most Fridays) around 7. It's going to be a casual wine and dinner. You are more than welcome. :)
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I told you once that I didn't follow math because I'd been told that I wasn't supposed to. because I was a girl? I don't think that's technically true: I was just taught it by bad teachers (i.e., my mother's boyfriend when I was still in kindergarten, yeah, I know it's nuts, but the sonofabitch made me cry and I was just three, you know?)
This isn't something I *can't* learn, it's just something I haven't learned, and I don't see a screaming need to learn it in the near future.
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But it's good to know that what I worked out was clear. The whole thing still makes me self-conscious. I recorded 20 of those today, and there was a lot of taping oer myself as I made mistakes, over expalined, under explained and the like.
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That was good.
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Also, in a total non sequitir, we are having people over tomorrow (and most Fridays) around 7. It's going to be a casual wine and dinner. You are more than welcome. :)
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