Post #1673815
2026-04-16 01:21 UTC
@ogi @tacaswell @mpirnat No doubt that math is super important. I just wish we taught people how it’s used and how to use it instead of testing people on hand calculations and memorization.
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@brianokken@fosstodon.org 2026-04-16 01:28
@ogi @tacaswell @mpirnat I wonder how many scientific and engineering breakthroughs and advances have been lost to society because the inventor had been filtered out of STEM due to antiquated hand calculation requirements
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@ogi@hachyderm.io 2026-04-16 01:39
@brianokken @tacaswell @mpirnat I don’t remember having to do much in the way of hand calculations, memorization of the multiplication tables and being able to quickly do addition/subtraction in my head helped; admittedly it’s been a while but I don’t recall feeling frustrated with the amount of work I had to do by hand …most of my classes I recall being pretty flexible on what calculator you can use.