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Re:How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by a1a on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:04PM (#6727528)
>> wanting to shout "NO, NO it's not obvious!"

Usually "obviously", "trivial" and such are used to point out that: "this should be obvious/trivial by now", if not: you are getting behind/need to study more/be better prepared before class/....

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Re:How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by Smudge on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:16PM (#6727627)
That is how I read these signals, and sometimes it was true. I'd study a bit more, meet with the class's TA or a university-provided tutor to go over the material, and I'd be fine.

But even then, in many cases, the professor was simply expecting us to have made an intuitive leap. And those of us who hadn't made it were left behind, with no explanation as to why or what it was we needed to understand.

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Re:How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by munin on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:57PM (#6728011)
you know you've stepped into the woods when you stop hearing "this is obvious" in math classes...
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