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To all those who wonder how this comment was posted "x+3 hours ago" and the video itself was uploaded "x hours ago", it's simply cuz he made the video un-private (public lol) only after checking if everything was right!
P. S. x≠2 in this case... Please understand lol 😂
remember kids theres old finals just do them all, the final is always a repeat so just write down the work of the previous finals and change some numbers. make sure to write a lot of extra random things and circle the work that you know is right
Sooooo when does episode 2 come out? This was great :D
A set of all even numbers, and a set of all real numbers. You can match every number from the first set to its counterparts in the other set, and you will have all odd numbers still will no pairing. Thus all real numbers is a bigger set. Why is this wrong? Im a law student who hasnt done math in 4 years please bare with me :) in response to the cantor set vid
Some kid in my history class would always cheat and he would never get a passing grade, even before I pointed out that he was cheating to the instructor.
And yet, in a couple of years, he'll be in Congress.
Lmao wdym?
@@akuma9178 Probably trying to imply that Congress members are illiterate and dumb. 😂
@@abaundwal Fun fact: Indiana nearly passed a bill (Indiana Pi Bill), setting by law that squaring the circle is possible.
@@andresperrle7984 the ultimate engineering move, pi = 3 ❌, pi = 4 ✅
Perhaps a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court?
So that's what a polynomial is...
when you do it with multiple chicks at the same time
2F + M
@Catharsis u can cut in in half
@Catharsis One schroedinger sausage
@Catharsis I mean, at that point, even ten more wouldn’t do the job
"how do you make change"
"sign a petition"
"okay, did *not* see that coming"
I am *rolling*
Let me be your first reply.
@@skysunknownheroes no
U
@@skysunknownheroes someone’s mad that they didn’t get the first reply...
@@skysunknownheroes hey now, no need for such talk man
"Aren't you gonna sign my petition?"
-Postal Dude
“Looks like the story is falling apart there”😂
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@@chemicalengineeringedgetec5784 no shut up
@@chemicalengineeringedgetec5784 n o
Sounds like republicans arguing why the truth is stupid
@@Justin-tp1mx sounds like children like you trying to make everything political to make yourself feel better.
"But letters are numbers, right?"
Hexadecimal: *clears throat*
Base64: lol
I was thinking ASCII equivalents xD
Roman numerals. (Also Greek and Hebrew.)
Broh your brain is damaged with cs as well?
@@zakariyeyusuf1064 I wasn't talking from the perspective of CS.
Base 64? As a minecraft veteran I've mastered that shit
as somebody who tutors for money while pursuing their degree, I have once had a new student just say "I am so bad at math can you just do my homework for me and take my tests?" They were being completely serious
What made them think that anyone would agree to do such a thing?
@@s.g.867 Hopefully just entitlement/laziness, rather than another tutor before me lol
"i do not get paid enough for this"
sooo did you do it?
@@tori6506 srsly? lol no
Try to make group project with the kid who cheated their way through school...
did that for the whole 3 years of my bachelor
@@bananesalee7086 there is always the one...then they say I'm passive aggressive in group projects
I'm shaking again just after reading that. God that was a nightmare, even more than otherwise with group work.
@@bananesalee7086 The carry irl
Try doing a group project with the kid who tries to cheat their way through the group project. Who has previously cheated on the prerequisite English language exam, to attend an English university.
“Do you know how to factor?”
“Yes. My uncle has one on his farm.”
“Ok, that’s a tractor.”
💀💀💀
Damn, this basically me in math. I never remembered the terminology, so when my professor said “polynomial,” my mind is blank. I only remember how to do the math, not what is the math
Yea honestly despite what the internet tells you, most of this math is only applicable if your going for a college degree. The calculus teacher who says 'we'll every job uses math" should be slapped upside the head. No shit every job uses math, but for the most part the minority of people actually use more than the fundimentals. It's not laziness, it's not leaving things up to chance that you got it wrong. unless you plan on becoming an engineer or some other career where your venturing into new territory, then don't sweat it.
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@@super5oldier139 You'll not be doing calculus by hand in the real world, you'll be doing them on MATLAB or simulation machines. You still need to know it and do hand calculations from time to time to check the accuracy of the machines.
@@super5oldier139 I think it's still ok to get acquainted with certain math terms and phenomena, it's good for cultural background.
why wouldn't you just invent your own terminology?
Literally me and my physics tutor. Dude has insane patience. He really got me through the worst.
I was terrible at math. At 20 I started looking at old math notes and realized I couldn’t do any of my high school precalculus anymore. On one hand I felt like the system has failed me and on another I knew that I did have the responsibility to learn it and that it would be a good thing to pursue. Fast forwards to now, I’m 21, it’s been about a year since I started to take math seriously and now I have the skills to continue going further. I changed my major from the arts to computer science. I feel like I am taking on a bigger risk changing later in the game but I know I will be pissed when I’m 30 and I can’t do advanced math.
For all those shitty math students out there. If I can do it, you can too.
Thank you for the confidence. I feel the exact same way tbh. I'm in college and yet i'm taking a course in algebra. I feel so disappointed like how am I here if my math knowledge has died out soo much.
Omg thank God I'm not alone. I used to be so good at math since elementary school to middle school, but when I got to high school I'm so bad at it especially at calculus(I hate it) . Thank you for your words, I'll try again and again until I can be great at math again ❤️
Honestly that's not even a problem where the system failed you, it's just that learning most kinds of math is useless if you don't use it everyday or in a specific career path. The most helpful math you'll probably learn in school is geometry, then everything else is arbitrary imo. Sincerely, someone you who's thought about this too much.
I've taken basic algebra like 4 or 5 different times in my life and only passed the second time around picking back up. I would spend hours studying my notes and doing all of the homework. Turns out, I likely have been struggling with undiagnosed dyscalculia since 3rd grade... so.. not all of us can. I love programming and natural sciences but I can quite literally never pursue those avenues due to my inability to pass the required math courses needed to graduate. Anything else though? Np do great. I always fail a math class the first time around though.. and barely pass (if i do at all) the second semester.
I also felt the system failed me once I hit college. I was struggling with the first math class so much the teacher thought something was wrong with me. Didn't know what was wrong with me until I failed pre-calc the term after that. That was a huge punch in the gut and I re-evaluated everything where I went wrong. Turns out, I had no study skills. I'd do the bare minimum of work then call it a day. I wasn't learning to solve problems, I was just doing work to get it over with. Also I barely remember what happened in high school, so that definitely didn't help.
Also, most college and university's offer online math courses. These one term courses have made me learn more math than all of public school ever has.
This is surprisingly accurate
_Painfully_ accurate
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Accurate to you
It's the clear bewilderment at "my teacher once said x is 2" that gets me every time
A few years ago I tutored a kid who was a *master* BS artist. Here were some of his tactics:
- If there are only two possible answers, start writing one of them down, but keep your pen on the page. If the tutor doesn't say that's right in a few seconds, change your answer.
- Say "Yeah yeah yeah" when the tutor's in mid-sentence. Chances are the tutor will finish his sentence anyway, so you can listen to what he says while pretending to have known all along.
- Before the tutor learns to call your bluff, tell your parents that you're not really learning anything from this tutor, and that your bad result in the test was just you having a bad day.
- If the tutor asks what you're struggling with, tell him something you're actually good at. It'll make it seem like even your worst subject isn't that bad.
- If you're right-handed, sit to the left of the tutor. You can then use the wrist of the hand you're writing with to block the tutor from seeing what you're writing. Keep writing for ages until the tutor gets bored and zoned out/ looks away, reasoning that he can check your work when you're done. You can now copy your answer from the text book/ whatever.
- Bonus for this one: you get to waste time during the tutorial session!
- Answer the wrong question. You can always claim it was an honest mistake!
- Use an inconsistent layout: sometimes align things vertically, sometimes horizontally. Write small and messy so that one letter/ number can easily look like another.
- You can get a long way into answering a question by just following the pattern of your tutor when he was explaining. If you get stuck, wait for the tutor to explain and then use the 'Yeah yeah yeah' technique mentioned above. This will make it look like you know what to do, but you just forget momentarily.
Honestly sounds fun to tutor someone like this
That's why, I barely ask yes-or-no questions. I ask precise questions, which require precise answers.
If a student can not answer those fair and in my opinion easy enough questions of mine, then I know, what's up with that student.
I feel like this was me even tho I never had a tutor.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Your friend is re-tarded. This doesnt even make sense.
@@file4318 as a tutor, no, it's not.
most of my engineering classmates described in a minute
Oh look at me I'm so much smarter than my dumb classmates
@@gronccoravioliWell, he does have a point tho
I was in concepts of programming languages with a business major who somehow corequisited himself into my life. he had never written anything in any programming language before. i partnered with him because i am socially retarded. i wrote 95% of the toy compiler and the 5% he typed I dictated to him line by line over zoom because he angrily insisted he needed credit for something. most difficult A of all time
That's why weed-out classes exist, and these people fail Calculus 2 because they skated by Calc 1.
@@joeyGalileoHotto nah they just cheat their way through those too
the amount of times I’ve tutored someone who has pulled the “my teacher once said x was 2” card is actually atrocious
It is not as cringe as having to explain to people what an equation is.
"But letters are numbers right"
Roman numerals: he does have a point tho
you're also typing on a computer or a smartphone, for which again, all letters are numbers :)
You are really nailing my humor with your skits. The jokes, the characters, the facial expressions, all on point
Thank you very much :)
Haha, so obvious the black shirt guy cheated his way through school. Like, who doesn't even know x=2, elementary stuff.
It's really trivial info
But I thought x = 15y/7
@@delvingintothedepths5353 yea but y always = 14/15, so x still = 2
Me
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As an engineering student, and a full-time tutor, this video isn’t far off. I have calc students who hardly understand algebra.
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Are they education majors? We had a "special" math class for them, I took it for fun, because math major...they tried to warn me it was for the education majors who needed the math credit to graduate, but I didn't listen... that's the story of how I ended up having to turn in an art project for a college math class.
@@catloowitlatkla6116 they’re mostly high school students who plan to major in engineering. I can’t believe they would have such a useless math class for education majors. Math is a logical system that you can learn and implement. It’s hardly subjective and it helps people understand basic logic. Why wouldn’t schools want educators to learn it?
“I’ve just never understood math” - Students who refuse to study, learn, and do homework
@@Bunta1987qwerty Trust me I completely agree. I have been so disappointed by the things math teachers have told my little sisters (5 and 10 years younger than me). Things that they would come home and check with me about, and after that class I think figured out why it kept happening.
(Sister: My teacher said if you divide by zero you get zero
Me: Rants in math for an hour)
Math is a beautiful language that the world needs more people to be able to speak. Formal Logic is probably one of the best classes I have ever taken and I really think everyone should take it.
Have a great day fellow math person!
I’m in AP calculus this year as a senior and am coming to realize that a lot (definitely not all) of my problems are based on the fact that I basically forgot all the more complex algebra I learned in 8th and 10th grade. I don’t know what happened to me. I used to be decent at math.
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Get a load of THIS guy.
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It’s sad how accurate this is 😪😂
It's accurate?
@@user_2793 It's a true story based on witness testimony.
Yup. I've taught my cousins maths a few times and it was so painful and frustrating. I used to think I was a patient person. Teaching them made me realize that I'm not really that patient.
Yep that's me. I don't know what any of those math words mean but I do know how to search them up or solve them kinda. Like idk what polynomial is but I do remember my teacher taught it like a week ago but figuring that since I still haven't failed math I'm doing something right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You should design an algorithm that would increase the bill every time he says something stupid
Me: Worked really hard in my studies
My impostor syndrome: This video is about us
I can relate, but was glad when he said polynomials, factor or completing square method. Literally, I was happy when summarized the steps in my mind. But then I remembered I forgot the trig substitution which I did one year ago at calc2.
You actually made me feel guilty because we never learned really about "completing the square" in school
made me feel called out
Well there's always youtube and other websites to help us in pretty much a bulk of what we learn in schools.
It's really nothing, don't worry. You have some quadratic in the form p(x) = x²+px+q, you add and subtract p²/4 to get p(x) = x²+ 2(p/2)x + (p/2)² +q-(p/2)² = (x-p/2)² + q - (p/2)²
It is extremely useful when you need to find things like the "range" of p(x) given a domain of x.
It's also the method used to derive the well-known quadratic formula
I taught it myself because we weren't taught it in class.
@@user_2793 why did u overcomplicate such a small thing lmao u just put a polynomial
ax²+bx+c in the form a(x+½b)² - ½b² + c
Zach did you try putting the answers down on the desk one seat away? Works wonders!
Me when I’m tutoring my siblings 😩😩
Being a person who loves math in a math-hating household is tough
Now you told him 2+2=4 and that does not change. He will have some discussions with his Algebra professor.
I have a feeling he is not going to make it to modular arithmatic to bump into that problem.
but i thought, "2+2 = 5 for small values of 5 and large values of 2" ;)
@@livethefuture2492 that only works if the I and E is after a C uts just basic science
@@trulyUnAssumingin modular arithmatic it is still true
@@scottwhitman9868 when writing it I probably had in mind 2+2mod3=1, but I guess 4mod3=1, so if you allow other elements of the equivalence class you are right. And practically people say a movie is 120minutes, so I cannot even say that never happens
I'm studying electrical engineering and this is definitely gonna be me when people ask me circuit analysis and digital systems questions after I graduate....online school is shit but I love the extra sleep time tho lmao
now you can attend class AND sleep at the same time, that's efficient 😎
@@technoguyx Ngl, I've done that a couple of times this semester, it felt horrible but my sleep was more important lol
ar least you are getting sleep time, my uni still thinks they can get from the online semester as there have from offline one, so they be totally fucking up our sleep schedule
Well you need to complete the square when dealing with transfer functions for signals/control systems/transforms etc.
@@AdityaKumar-ij5ok dude my last year of college was online due to covid and they made the time table the same as if we were still in college in person. I was so good damn exhausted once it was over, the workload was unreal. I feel like anyone doing post-secondary this year must love pain at this point to even survive lol
The best laugh I've had in ages
I do not get paid enough for this.
I felt that in my soul.
This is pretty much going to be everyone who cheated during the pandemic when classes were remote. Now with in person almost being guaranteed for the fall, these same students are fighting for classes to stay remote lol.
Alot of people cheated
Anyways I'm just gonna be catching up in math
*writing and reading
This whole educational year is a disaster. I missed out on an entire year of university because of it.
@@incription exactly like alittle over probably half the people in my school just don't attend zoom classes and the other half don't do work just sit there doing something else
Now do one about the people who were too tired to even cheat, so just slept their way through every class.
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I'm available for interviews/questions at any time..... past 3pm.
That's me😂
Lol me in High school, and I still somehow did better than like 1/3 of my precal class who payed attention all the time.
I once tutored a Yale graduate who was exactly like this. It was supposed to be tutoring but I ended up doing all her graded assignments. At the end she deleted my contact, stopped replying to my mails and didn't pay the money agreed for the help.
That moment I understood how ridiculous the selection criteria of most of these high end colleges are.
Imagine doing something like that and not getting payment in advance
@@thesenamesaretaken She paid some amount in advance. Then it was agreed that rest would be paid after the work.
To your original point- I have found the the criteria for elite schools is actually 'amount of ambition'. The rest is just pantomime.
@@Redmenace96
Majority of Yale university students' have high parental income. Yale's median parental income is 7th in the united states. Around 200,000 US dollars (if i remember)
While its certainly possible that highly paid parents have ambitious children. That doesn't prove that poor people are devoid of any ambition.
I once had to tutor a classmate in high school who used a calculator to divide by 1 four times in one class. The people who do this as a job don't get paid enough.
@Zmartt Caracol neither, she had to divide by 1 in four separate occasions and used the calculator for all of them in the same class, I had never seen someone that dense
This doesn't mean nessesarly they are dumb, I had a friend with OCD who did the same thing. They weren't bad at math at all, but they would do like every little calculation on the calculator lol.
Dude… dividing by 1… dude I can’t even
I'd rather have my whole internet history included deleted things published over having someone see my calculator's memory lmao
I was once helping a student in a remedial math class. We were working on long division. At one point, he needed to perform this subtraction problem: two minus zero. And he didn't know the answer. He couldn't do that much math in his head.
Another student I once had to deal with: I asked her to multiply a number by ten. She reached for her calculator...
As a high school tutor, this is painfully accurate
I just need someone to give me quick refreshers on a concept I learned and I can just remember everything 😂
Man this reminded me of the last student I tutored. But in my case the student was pretending that he knew everything I was talking about and I could see in his face that he did not understand anything. I assume it was because he was older than me.
Yep, the old pretending to know. And then offended that you know they don't know, then blaming you for mixing them up etc. Because that's what they've been doing for a decade, and some are damn good at it!
To be fair I took AP calc and every time completing the square comes up I have to look up the exact formula.
0:44 I thought he was gonna say how A=1 B=2 C=3 and so on. Lol forgot what this was called
Enumeration?
@@Bratjuuc Gematria
Completing the square is so satisfying when you do it, especially if the problem looks really hard
I connected to this on a spiritual level, the life of a tutor
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Polynomial joke was elite
I dont think he's even smart enough to cheat without getting caught.
I love the genuine "I'm at a loss for words" face you have for the teacher
I didn't know you had such acting skills !!
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He looks so genuine when he asks if he got it right
As someone who tutors, these are the kinds of students you get. I can relate 1000% percent.
As someone whos doesn't tutor, how does it feel right when you say "1000% percent"? Did your students teach you that 1000% thing? Just sayin' maybe a math tutor shouldn't say "I can relate 1000% percent" ,. . just trying to be helpful.... Also, math sarcasm wont translate over text, again trying to be helpful,.. seriously I am,.. no sarcasm.
@@jakev7005 Bruh. That's not what's going through my mind when I say that. It's an expression. I didn't mean % as in what percentage of what he said I agreed with I meant I agree very much. It's a way of conveying my feelings through exaggeration.
@@santiagoarce5672 No Shit sherlock, I know... Fer christ sake, to all those fortunate enough to read this (or not) Please enjoy the hilarity!! Clearly you understand and appreciate South Park, George Carlin, and sarcasm.. Lets everybody take a 'wrap off', huh? Otherwise, you are the problem !!!
@@jakev7005 your intentions were clear as mud you freaking spoon why did you go through all that effort writing me an essay just to crack that mediocre sarcastic joke.
@@santiagoarce5672 . . Because if you had just added ";-)" or "haha" or "lol" or etc.. It would have been one of the funniest comments ever written !! I would have told my future kids about your masterful comic skill.. "Sit down children, let me tell you the story of the a youtube comment that us laughing for days. Gather round, bring your hot choc. . .." Anyway, gotta go. Have a good day. AND I'll still tell my future kids about you, I mean that 1000% percent... ;-)
God I wish teachers were actually like this. Would have made school so much better. And they’d have to keep the same tone. Love how calm he is.
Literally me except I don’t cheat, I just instantly forget what I learn the second the test is taken 😅
... SAME?? It's honestly a problem, I just,, like, poof. where's it go?
>Did I get it right?
Fucking perfect delivery for that whole thing
You see, x is just shorthand for two. So you save x letters. It's self-consistent, so don't mess with it.
We need one where this kid grows up to be the tutor and the student is a prodigy and is super confused cause they are smarter than the tutor
I love your pronunciation !!
About to graduate with a Physics degree at college, currently tutoring kids in algebra and geometry on the side. Honestly, not that uncommon to tutor a kid that cheated and needs catching up. It's not something to be mad about. I don't even remember what completing the square is. I'm sure I know it though, I just have to see it written down to know what it is.
Usually, these kids are actually pretty smart. Just give them a chance, and don't make any assumptions about what they already know. Literally after everything you tell them, just ask them if they understand what you just did. If you just do that then you'll make a huge impact on their learning.
We all should just respect our teachers, and thank them they spent so much energy teaching us...
For some.
@@segmentsAndCurves Let's just forget our the bad teachers, and just remember the good ones. We need more like them today.
@@HA7DN true
Sometimes it's hard to tell when someone is really that clueless, or if they're just messing with you.
Bro this was hilarious , haven’t seen your vids in like two years and damn this made my day
When I tutored and the people I was helping in high school would go” did I get it right” I would say the whole “ not even f**king close “ line a lotttt to laugh n break tension and show them just be normal and not stressed abt looking dumb. You are hear because you need help we both know it and it’s okkkk!
I'm going to start referring to any sexual activity that involves more than 2 people as a "polynomial". This is a thing now. You're welcome, internet.
I am a tutor for my college while I get my degree, this is one of the most painful to watch videos because half of this I’ve actually heard in some form before. I envy the bliss in life these people must have, a complex thought has never crossed their mind let alone a complex number.
As someone who did cheat their way through school, I feel bad when I go to tutors.
I go to them because I can't cheat online or I don't know anyone in the class.
It sucks because I know I'm making their job harder for them by not being a good student. But still, you're a tutor. What do you expect? If I was really good at the subject, then I wouldn't come to you, right?
On one hand, yes, teaching is a job and we should be helping to teach you new things. But when you cheat earlier in life, you skip over important concepts that will come up repeatedly later in life that will assist you in understanding even more important concepts. So on the other hand, if a tutor walks in and assumes it's only one or a few given things you need help with, this is a fair interaction, but if you've gotten to a point that you're far beyond wherever your actual comprehension is, then that's several years' worth of teaching, homework, etc that you've got to make up for before you're truly at home with the material in most cases, which means a hell of a lot more work for the tutor. If you know you're a cheater, you can at least have the decency to pay your tutor more.
Me growing up though I never gave any answers away even if I knew I wouldn't be caught. Not to be unfriendly but frankly because on some level I knew it wouldn't grant any favors
This skit is SEVERELY under appreciated
I my country, you don't even have to cheat to reach this level of competence.
I cheated through most of online school so I’m scared for what will happen when I go back physically
It should be tutoring the kid who isn't cheating their way through school lol the way the students are nowadays they have the assignments done before class even starts and the teacher gets a twinkle in their eyes about how bright our generation has become.
students having assignments done before class? How is that possible? Probably if the teacher is organized and uploads them on canvas, but rarely does that happen in school.
@@joeyGalileoHotto Not at my university. We have labs that we occasionally have to work in partners for that involve programming and circuit design. If you can't complete the lab within the lab time then it's a zero. However, students will show up to class saying that they've programming it all before class and are done ;) so they can leave. What I caught on was that some kids were buying answers from senior students who passed the class. Realistically, the labs are difficult and require the teacher to explain so I'm not buying it. It's the same with tests where the majority of the class will fail but you'll have a few students make perfect grades even though realistically that's extremely difficult to do for upperclassman engineering classes. A number of students have been busted for sharing answers and cooperating during tests since it's really easy to cheat when everything is done online. It has just brought it to light more during this time since online school is much more difficult than ordinary school yet you still have students cheating to make the pass/fail curves void.
@@jamesbra4410 The fact that you get a zero if you don't finish complex code and designing circuits in a short lab period sounds horrendous. How do you guys manage?
@@joeyGalileoHotto I guess they want us to help each other out but usually most people fail and the people who found the answers online pass.
"Looks like your story's kinda falling apart there" Had me 🤣🤣🤣
Not far from reality. I tutored university student in CS. In their first year, they go through all the material of secondary school and that includes integrals. That's usually the big choking point.
With a lot of students, they could integrate stuff like x². But as soon they had to integrate something like x²+x³ then it becomes hell of crazy. The "trick" is that they now have...fractions!
So, when they choke there, I asked 1/3+1/4 and could see how badly they understood fractions.
Fractions are a huge problem. A lot of students just don't get those.
Another one is when they have to divide two polynomials and they don't know how to use the long division because they still not understand what is a division!
It's rarely the advanced subjects that are not understood. These are the fundamentals!
Another big trouble is the rule of third. This one shows greatly when one has to convert km/h in m/s...
We should really learn less math and focus on the basics. Everyone should be able to do the 4 operations in any radix f he understood how radix 10 works. The fact people can't shows a lack of understanding of our positional number system. Hence the bad calculations and confusion.
I'm gonna be graduating from college in CS next semester and I have no idea what a radix is...
@@etekweb This: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix
It was part of my curriculum, but I also had to learn assembly and automaton. CS level has lowered due to the strong demand in the field. So things deemed non essential got cut off as usual. As ususl, we will see the effects in the long term.
True that. When I began working for my professor I didn't really believe him when he said that about 15-20% of students have trouble doing basic math. Now since I have helped to grade many exams I tend to agree.
I don't know how many of them end up graduating (most of them were second year students but we had no information how many of them successfully passed their first year courses) but it's scary to think that a sizeable proportion of CS graduates cannot do basic math.
And I'm not talking about students making innocent arithmetic mistakes that could happen to anyone. I'm talking about students not knowing how to do binomials, dividing two fractions or computing a dot product. Them not being able to integrate is way down on the list of problems.
@@compuholic82 Binomials and dot products are not in all curriculum. But ratios, fractions, rule of third and the decimal system is part of elementary school.
And those subjects are reviewed in higher school and even illustrated by geometry (similar triangles, Thales, transformations).
The things is that pupils are trained to study for the exam. Then they forget right after.
There is also another phenomenon which is clustering. Pupils tend to not reuse their knowledge across courses. So, while they know how to draw to scale during geometry lessons, they can't apply it during geography lessons. Even if it's the very same thing, the transfer is not happening.
This is something that we try to correct in the curriculum by offering situations and making students aware that this is general knowledge and work the same across fields. But we took a long time top get there and not very school is up to date. That will probably take few decades to be deployed every time. The time old teachers are replaced with new teachers.
We still suffer from the ratio Teachers:time:students.
Currently, it's one teacher hour per 30 students. Ideal is one teacher hour per 6 students. That number can be bumped to 10 for easy material or lessons where students works by themselves (exercises).
In the '90, that worked nicely because there was smaller classes and even a bad teacher could handle it. Also, there was still the sliding ruler and logarithm tables and the curriculum was focused on making pupils ready for the real world. That was a legacy for when kids worked at 14.
Then, because kids had to turn 18 to work and school became mandatory and new technologies were available to all (calculators, Internet) that changed and it was decided to "spread" the existing material, chop some part of it (mainly logarithms and introduce new material in high school. So, that made a dent as there was no expectation of autonomy before leaving high school. While before, the deadline was end of elementary.
It's kind of better, because lighter on the pupils, but the growth in class size and the need for teacher to change their way of teaching screwed the thing. So, a lot of student got sacrificed in the transition and it's still pending. In few decades, transition will be done and we can hope the best. Only remaining issue will be the class size. Not sure that part will be solved as there is not enough teachers and rooms.
Due to covid, remote learning developed and that may be a viable route where students can learn to help themselves and have the teacher as a resource when they get on premise.
On top of that, there was a desire to replace autonomy with "professionalisation". That did also sabotage teaching. That is also being "rolled back". So, kind of good news there.
i used to have a house keeper that only have an elementary education but still cant read. Apparently her parents bribe the school so that she at least got a degree 😭
0:52 but i thought, "2+2 = 5 for small values of 5 and large values of 2" ;)
I’d sign an online petition lmao
sounds like me this past year in online classes.
I thought polynomial referred to a bunch of short fantasy creatures teaming up.
I love how your T-shirt says trivial as to indirectly mock your student character as you ARE asking questions which are trivial.
This is not parody, this is a reenactment.
can totally relate
i got to university without even knowing what parallel and perpendicular even meant xD
Did not expect this to be so funny. Good job mate :)
Just lock them in a cell until they can solve a quadratic on their own.
They might actually figure it out
i did that, sat in a room, used khan academy, and 2 hours later i came out knowing how to solve quadratics.
@@livethefuture2492 you are a person of perseverance, focus, and ambition. Well done!
This is just your average post primary education student.
Turning RUclips into TikTok
It kills the way he totally inhabits both sides of this!
This has to be true
Based on true events
@@zachstar No way
@@sid6645 You don't teach, right? There are few gems from the times when I was helping my classmates pass high school "Why sodium cannot form double bond?" "How do you know that X is bigger than Y, you said that it can be any number (in formula ending in something like x=2y)" "I don't put salt in pot for pasta, high heat may release chlorine and that is poison."
@@simonspacek3670 Wow that gets another "No way" from me... I guess some people really don't focus on their studies.
@@simonspacek3670 what's wrong with the sodium one? I didn't take chemistry.
"But letters are numbers, right?"
Maybe he's actually a computer scientist!
Based on personal experience?
I’ve tutored for about 10 years, and in that time you see some stuff..
@@zachstar now imagine doing this as your daily job.....
@@zachstar lol
This guy is like a genius/hilarious combination of Jim Carrey and Christian Bale
All right, I'm early. Time to use this for the greater good.
Guys, stay in drugs and don't do school!!!1!
Nailed it.
Have you not watched the news in the past year.
That IS the modern curriculum in Public Education.
Are you feeling depressed, anxious, frustrated? Don't worry just take your "prescription" and everything will be fine.
@@Marinealver ?
@@rudraprajapati721 he's basically saying that instead of actually teaching kids, they're just giving them prescription medication to deal with their emotional and logistical functions.
@@Marinealver Overprescription is a real problem, but only to an extent. Rhetoric like yours shames and invalidates the hell out of legitimate use of effective therapies for people who need them. Practice some realistic nuance here and don't generalize negatively about an objectively extremely important and vital and already too-stigmatized method of treating real problems just because in an EXTREME MINORITY OF CASES prescriptions are given too easily.
I'm a healthcare professional working in public health and specifically the importance of medical education as prevention including helping people break past stigmas that you're helping perpetuate. Mental health treatment is real and important. Be careful with your rhetoric instead of verbalizing about it like it's all mind control nonsense. That's not okay. Statements like yours directly harm real people.
@@HerbaMachina You are correct. And in all but the smallest minority of cases, he is totally wrong.
Jokes on you, I'm just dumb.
Everyone who’s early
*quick think of something funny*
Farms are just places where you multiply chickens.
Isn't this just a politician who walked into the wrong classroom?
I had similar experiences with this. I wasn’t tutoring but back then I would finish my math work in like a minute and just chill on my phone for the rest of the time in class. But sometimes I felt nice so I wanted to help the poor guy struggling next to me. The problem is that when we are trying to do pre calc but the dude probably slept through his entire year of algebra. How tf am I supposed to teach a guy one concept when he doesn’t even know the 5 other concepts it’s built on.
Dude, had this happen when I was teaching my algebra 2 class last semester. They were in algebra 1 when covid first happened, couldn’t factor, couldn’t simplify radicals. So 1-2 day review classes turned into review weeks because I had to teach those concepts before I could actually get to the concepts I was required to teach. Not their faults but I felt so defeated.
Okay but being confused on all of them is legit
Im a teacher in a highschool. The MAJORITY of students I have are like this.
Am I the only one who expected the line "minus one that's three quick maths" after he said "2+2 is 4" ?
How do you keep a straight face during these 😂😂😂
I feel like I'm being personally attacked
“Not even fucking close” 😂
I had an intern like this. Dude calculated the surface area of a real object to be 0 m^2... He looked so proud of it.
It was afterwards that we found out he was a well-known, chronic cheater that was only allowed to graduate because his program was a degree mill.