Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious

Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by Filligree on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:53AM (#21670814)

I have never once in my life used logarithms in that fashion. I've used them in other ways, but why would you do it that way instead of just hitting the "*" button?

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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by eropple on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:57AM (#21670839)

Because you did not have a * button?

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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by sologoub on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:12PM (#21670932)

I this sums up my first math experience in the US high school. Learning before moving to the US, we were not allowed any calculators. My first class the teach wrote something basic like quadratic equation to solve. To my shock, out went the TI-83 graphing calculators.

I was done with the problem before my peers even hit the right keys in their pocket computers (TI-83 is not a calculator, but a computer pretending to be a calculator).

I still think the non-calculator way of teaching math gave me better skills down the road.

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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by Filligree on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:56AM (#21683499)

You don't have a calculator, so you're calculating logarithms by hand?

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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by eropple on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:55PM (#21687969)

You understand that slide rules existed before calculators, yeah?

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