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I remember learning the quadratic equation in highschool, and I memorized it like I did everything, still have no idea what it is or what I would use it for.
The same thing happened in linear algebra in university, I had no idea what I was doing or why it would ever be useful to solve a real world problem.
So I view this as the default state of teaching, and there is no where to go but up. If an AI can teach by dynamically producing videos and answering questions with visualizations I think it could be a great tool.
Ah, because you learned stuff you then didn't use, learning is useless. Why didn't people think of this when we invented calculators? Why didn't anyone ask exactly this exactly one Thousand times
Sounds like you don't enjoy critical thinking
Well I just do far better with visuals, perhaps its adhd I'm not sure.
those particular math can be visualized by doing shaders. or other few gamedev stuff, which I'd say fun. via programming, where user write instructions and the result is predictable given those instructions.
Not LLM, a black box that gives less predictable result given the same instructions.
Math problems are there so you learn to solve problems, not to apply algebra in your daily work
Okay except I also hated it, because all I was doing was rote memorization. Since then after many decades I've learned, mostly from places like Youtube, and I feel like I understand why people who join math competitions can be so passionate about it.
I suck at memorization and am better at figuring things out. The quadratic equation, I memorized and liked it because I could use it, just that one, to figure out the whole year of math, without memorizing anything else.
And yeah everything is slower that way, than memorizing - I have just always been constitutionally unable to do anything I don't understand. Even now, at work, I don't settle on a process I can hand off to anyone else until I do the task for like a year, a bunch of different ways.
It’s much better if you derive the quadratic equation. I don’t understand why more algebra 2 teachers don’t show the derivation from completing the square. I always do, and my students get it down quick!
I get it, I'm lucky one of my interests as a kid was math, it is comfy in knowing there is a clear final answer to a problem in algebra (even more when there are multiple ways to tackle the same problem)
The issue here is on the education system, aside from the topic (math, grammar, literature), if a kid is not engaged at all then it won't do shit and will learn to use whatever tools they have to just skip it altogether
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Exactly. It has been the case even long before AI that teaching materials on the internet were generally superior to teachers.