> But then school almost invariably taught math as a black box where you
> plug problems into a formula that works for some unknown reason and
> churn out answers. Relatively rarely is enough to really understand
> taught.
This situation is the same in the UK. I'm very aware of the fact that I
understand virtually nothing of mathematics, whilst being able to plug
meaningless numbers into a quadratic equation formula to produce two more
meaningless numbers. I'd be very interested to discover the function of such
methods.
-Rai
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