ProvocaTeach on Nostr: I thought I'd heard every reason math teachers are evil and math education is broken, ...
I thought I'd heard every reason math teachers are evil and math education is broken, but I guess I was wrong.
According to one Reddit math major, we are harming students by teaching that y = x^2 is a function.
It's not a function, he says, because it's not written with an f(x). 🤦♂️
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