r/im14andthisisdeep 4d ago

Made me think

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u/funkydude500 4d ago

Ikr. Like how is knowing the character flaws of each person in An Inspector Calls going to help me in life.

Or what good is SOH CAH TOA if I am literally never more than ten feet away from a device that can calculate everything about any triangle in seconds.

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u/Commercial_Ice_1531 4d ago

It's not that the information is useless, quite the contrary if you go through six form. It's just that, by comparison to mathematics where you often use processes to find more data within data, you are taking in information and later spitting it onto a piece of paper with zero alterations.

But with mathematics you are learning and practicing a skill, those processes of finding additional data with limited information, and proving that you are proficient at carrying out those processes in an exam.

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u/funkydude500 4d ago

I mean idk it's just memorizing formulas and punching it into a calculator. And the result is just a number that's either the answer or another number to put into another formula

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u/Commercial_Ice_1531 3d ago

I'll tell you what, you've got a surprise comin' once you get into algebra