Have your profs ever taught at a level too difficult for the class to follow?
>>17007279kind of an autistic way to show polynomials to middle schoolers. Just show them ax^2 + bx + c, no need for all the subscripts
I would not use symbols for the coefficients at all at this level, just show them some explicit examples of polynomials, like [math]2x^2 + 3x - 7[/math] or [math]-7x^3 - 5x[/math]. And if you're trying to teach them what "standard form" means, also show them the same polynomials not in the standard order, like [math]3x + 2x^2 - 7[/math]. At some point they will need to get used to using symbols like in OP pic, but too much too fast will make them give up.
>>17007280>>17007340Math must be hard you know?
>>17007279it's not a hard concept, just written in a way that's too abstract for middle-schoolers.college guy is retarded though, he should be able to understand it.
>>17007280>>17007340>>17007421They're in 8th grade, not 2nd.
>>17007279These "people" are so retarded.
>>17007421Why is the college student commenting in a video for middle schoolers THOUGH
>>17007633If you want to be understood by most of the class instead of just the bright kids, you have to have realistic expectations. The average 8th grader (and most of this applies to high schoolers as well) is barely following along, doing just what they need to do to get answers correct on homework and tests. They will not look at a mathematical expression and try to parse its meaning unless you force them to. (If you had to explain the formula in OP to them, this would involve having them to plug in explicit values for the coefficients, then plugging in several values of x and perhaps graphing the function.) When they look at an expression, they often do not understand what operations are being performed on what numbers. They will try to simplify [math]x^2 y^2 \sqrt{6} + x^3 y^3 \sqrt{7}[/math] to [math]x^5 y^5 \sqrt{13}[/math] and [math]\frac{x^3 + y}{yz}[/math] to [math]\frac{x^3}{z}[/math]. They will distribute exponents over addition, roots over addition, and multiplication over multiplication. It is painstaking work to get them to create an algebraic expression from a word problem if they have not seen similar examples that they can copy from. If they get frustrated with trying to think a problem through and have access to the Internet, they will ask ChatGPT to do the thinking part for them so they can get to the "real work" of mindlessly manipulating the formulas.
>>17007646>If you want to be understood by most of the class instead of just the bright kidsWhy would anyone want to waste their time and moreover bring detriment to the bright kids?
>>17007649Because that is what the job demands of them. If you want it to be otherwise, demand tracking or send your kids to a private school.
>>17007656Private schools are almost just as bad. If I ever have children, they'll either not waste their time going to school, or I'll send them to something like school 57.
>>17007646If you want students to improve you have to stop expecting the bare minimum.
>>17007649I wish more people like you entered the politics. My experience with school is that if you actually want to learn, you have to suffer through the possibly misleading lesson and then study extensively at home.
>>17007649To be fair, textbooks up to high school level are trash as well. Maybe my knowledge is lacking, but college textbooks seems good.
>>17007732>study extensivelyyou're at most a low tier midwit.
>>17007736How so? You think it's not worth it to study as much as you can?
>>17007736At least there seems to be no way to be accepted as a genius without extreme fixation? I don't know any so-called genius that wasn't obsessive.
>>17007737nobody who is high iq (130+) has to study at all in high school. assessment updated. you are at best average.
>>17007742See – this is the problem with school generally. People get funneled down irrelevant paths. I did not study for grades or even the subjects presented at school mostly. I studied to efficiently gain deeper knowledge. That is the context for my aforementioned disdain for pre-college lessons and textbooks.
>>17007744fluffing up your language while communicating less clearly is a sign of average intelligence.
>>17007745Even more so is an irrelevant as hominem from a retard that's probably proud of passing high school with high marks.
>>17007742All you need to do to understand my point is to grab some high school STEM textbooks. It is often explicitly stated that something requiring proof or further argument is to be taken for granted for the purpose of the textbook. However, there is also a lot of unannounced oversimplification. If you don't study past the curriculum, what use is that "knowledge" whose limits you aren't even aware of?
>>17007742I did also mention misleading lessons. Teachers aren't always lucidly omniscient and often they add nothing of great utility to what is already stated in the textbook. Even if the teacher is an extreme expert and you are extremely curious, I'm not sure they'll entertain all of your questions when there is a full class to teach at high school level. Surely it's problematic to expect every kid to go to school when the environment might only distract them from their useful obsessions.
>>17007763It can take time to consider whether adding to a discussion is worthwhile. It's tough to predict whether a comment is spam or genuinely helpful to at least one person. After all, I only have intimate knowledge of my own experience.
>>17007772Bro needs 30 minutes to reflect on his own experiences lmao. Processing speed is directly correlated with intelligence absent executive function disorders.
>>17007775Processing speed? This is about predicting the unknown. I can't even process what is going on for I don't have all the statistics to calculate an actual probability.
>>1700777620 minutes scrooooling on your thesaurus?you're supposed to say you came back to the thread after having a wank or something. Did you really sit there "predicting the unknown" and "calculating probabilities" lmao
