myrmepropagandistfuturebird@sauropods.win
Oct 30, 2026, 11:09 PMMath books should have paragraphs that take you like a hour to read, but not very many of them, and more equations IMO.
This book, it's just so... long winded.
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Maura HubbellSistaWendy@toot.catOct 30, 2026, 11:12 PM@futurebird Good luck. I’ve been unhappy with how statistics gets taught since the eighties.
- myrmepropagandistfuturebird@sauropods.winOct 30, 2026, 11:17 PM
I mean... same but I've only been teaching for 25 years or so.
I love statistics so much... the real math part of it, but most class are like baking classes where you memorize unintelligible recipes... or it's just a bunch of reading that is somehow both dense and devoid of real content.
NetuxNetux@mastodon.sdf.orgOct 31, 2026, 6:18 AM@futurebird @SistaWendy still sound better than my college stats class. Charts instead of math. High school was better. Though at the end of the day, isn't it just a few variations of the same formula?
Lew Perinbabelcarp@social.tchncs.deOct 30, 2026, 11:48 PM@futurebird Let me stipulate that I have zero specific knowledge of teaching math.
But you seem to be saying that there’s only one valid way of teaching and learning math, and that makes me instinctively suspicious.
Tim Jtimtfj@mastodon.socialOct 31, 2026, 3:18 AM@futurebird One thing I suffered from at university (on an engineering course) was long explanations which went through every step of some process (deriving some formula, say) and got in the way of seeing how the process was meant to work and why—the detail got in the way of seeing the actual principles. It absolutely felt like following recipes without understanding why I'd want to treat a particular ingredient a particular way . . .