You know that feeling you get when you realize that you're the only one in a group who knows something? When you're sitting there relaxing and everyone around is struggling to understand something? Thats how my day was today..... (",)
In my math lecture today, basic algebra was the topic of discussion, you know, just to brush up the basics before we got to the nitty gritty stuff. So just as an example, a sum goes up on the whiteboard - What is the value of x in (5x + 2)/3 = 2x. I was like, cumon, we can't be startin from this basic stuff... But when I take a look around I see people scratching their heads, writing down line after line as if they were decoding Morse code or something. Can you believe that the lecture actually spent about 5-7mins just explaining how to do the sum?!?! Next comes on the board something like divide 22163/37. So everyone proceeded to take out their calculator's. The lecturer says - Who all can do this without their calculators?'. And believe you me, the total number hands that went up including mine was barely 7-8 in a classroom with more than 300 people!!! So I say to myself, OMG! Wats happenin here?? So I ask my friend nxt to me (no offence to him if he's readin this), 'you can't divide that'?? He says to me - 'Dunno man...it's been a long time'.....
I'm thinking I must be in the wrong class. This can't be right. So I look up my syllabus, and see that this unit does dive deeper into technical calculus and stuff like that, but they intend to start teaching from the very beginning, and now I know why!!!
I remember bak in skl how I'd always complain on how we weren't allowed to use calculators in our exams...but now I'm glad that I didn't. I can see what the consequences would have been!! Here in oz, students start using calc's right from skl, and are almost totally dependent on them. Its a shame really....its one of the downsides of depending too much on electronics.
Anyhow, for the time being I'm gonna enjoy myself in math classes....baskin' in pride of knowledge, smirking away in my head....lol...
In my math lecture today, basic algebra was the topic of discussion, you know, just to brush up the basics before we got to the nitty gritty stuff. So just as an example, a sum goes up on the whiteboard - What is the value of x in (5x + 2)/3 = 2x. I was like, cumon, we can't be startin from this basic stuff... But when I take a look around I see people scratching their heads, writing down line after line as if they were decoding Morse code or something. Can you believe that the lecture actually spent about 5-7mins just explaining how to do the sum?!?! Next comes on the board something like divide 22163/37. So everyone proceeded to take out their calculator's. The lecturer says - Who all can do this without their calculators?'. And believe you me, the total number hands that went up including mine was barely 7-8 in a classroom with more than 300 people!!! So I say to myself, OMG! Wats happenin here?? So I ask my friend nxt to me (no offence to him if he's readin this), 'you can't divide that'?? He says to me - 'Dunno man...it's been a long time'.....
I'm thinking I must be in the wrong class. This can't be right. So I look up my syllabus, and see that this unit does dive deeper into technical calculus and stuff like that, but they intend to start teaching from the very beginning, and now I know why!!!
I remember bak in skl how I'd always complain on how we weren't allowed to use calculators in our exams...but now I'm glad that I didn't. I can see what the consequences would have been!! Here in oz, students start using calc's right from skl, and are almost totally dependent on them. Its a shame really....its one of the downsides of depending too much on electronics.
Anyhow, for the time being I'm gonna enjoy myself in math classes....baskin' in pride of knowledge, smirking away in my head....lol...
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