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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·22 days agoWe had a mathematician come to a school event in 8th grade and taught us how to turn story problems into formulas we could solve. “What” = “X” “is” = “=” “of” = “÷” And so on. I was screaming internally, “Why has no one else taught is this before?!” Still use those methods today.
minus-squareEch@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 days agoExcept in this case “of” = “*”, so keep on your toes.
We had a mathematician come to a school event in 8th grade and taught us how to turn story problems into formulas we could solve.
“What” = “X”
“is” = “=”
“of” = “÷”
And so on.
I was screaming internally, “Why has no one else taught is this before?!” Still use those methods today.
Except in this case “of” = “*”, so keep on your toes.