nostr:npub175dlmjzxq6fgswh73qym7epwcll0dlrkpvcd479u9fc3yrzgxrqsjdwrtj nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw me too brother. There were a few weeks when I was seated across from her and one day she was really struggling with graphing two-variable inequalities on the x-y plane, like x + 2y >= 5 or something.

The teacher was teaching a complicated way of figuring out which half to shade in. She wanted you to pick a 'test point' and my crush was getting hung up on how to choose the test point.

I said, look, you just put it in y = mx+b form as usual, and if it says y is greater than "something" you just shade in the upper half, and do the opposite if y is "less than something". Her eyes lit up and it gave me joy.

Then our teacher spent 5 minutes ranting about how this isn't the method the book teaches, and she doesn't know if my method will always give the right answer, so if you use mist's method on a test and get everything wrong don't come crying to her.

And my crush, dejected, never used the simple method.

nostr:npub1pt6l3a97fvywrxdlr7j0q8j2klwntng35c40cuhj2xmsxmz696uqfr6mf6 nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw these math teachers are the worst. mine at least cut me some slack

the most fun lesson was when she hooked up her laptop to a projector, opened winplot, told us about like four parameters that can modify a sine, left it upon us to figure out what each of them does visually and stressed that everyone in the class should have a good understanding of it by the end of the lesson. then she disappeared for half an hour

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