Something I learned about calculus at high school

Posted by Mikko on November 24, 2001 at 17:26:28:

In Reply to: Re: 6th/7th grade geometry, not calculus posted by pork on November 24, 2001 at 16:57:35:

: : At least that has been my (frustrating!) experience in trying to learn math from those who just "get" it when I have to actually *think* about it for a day or a week or whatever.]

: Aye, I'm sure that whiz kid who was a Harvard professor of mathematics at 18 may have been able to look at "nr^2" and snapped "Aha, the area of a circle!" before he learned it formally.

--All of the teachers I had were fucking idiots when it came to anything practical. Probably one of the reasons I didn't a flying horseshit about the subject as it was taught at school.

At tech college I learned a lot, but it ended with me stating to the teacher she had a logical error in one assigment, after getting those exams back I went to the school office and signed the formal resignment papers.

Mikko

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