Post by @chemoelectric@masto.ai

2025-09-26 15:58 UTC

@marionline@autistics.life @hosford42@techhub.social I mean proprioception in the sense of navigation. Knowing left and right. That sort of thing. Which obviously fully healthy apes are very, very good at. (I’m not so extremely healthy these days, but that’s partly because I am old now. If I turn rapidly, I’ll likely fall down. :) ) People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it.

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@chemoelectric@masto.ai 2025-09-26 16:02

@marionline@autistics.life @hosford42@techhub.social Also, people who are SUPPOSED to be good at mathematics are often actually EXTREMELY BAD at it. My pinned toots are about how physicists absolutely are TERRIBLE at mathematics. I mean simply could not do it correctly if their lives depended on it. Entire industries exist that are simply wasting resources, because physicists have completely false theories based on blatantly incorrect mathematics.

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@hosford42@techhub.social 2025-09-26 16:42

@chemoelectric@masto.ai @marionline@autistics.life > People may be better at mathematics than they realize. Teachers are very, very, VERY bad at teaching it. I second this. I cringe every time my girls, who are both *very* good at math, say they hate the subject. It has everything to do with the teachers. I think the education program for teachers misses something that must be vital for effectively teaching math, especially in a way that makes kids feel competent and enjoy the subject. At least, that's how it is here in the US.

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