What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you? - eviltoast
    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works
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      4 minutes ago

      I was carrying not one but two programmable Casio GFX 9850 graphics calculators with me pretty much all the time. You could write some kind of Basic-ish code on these things. Neat machines, considering their age.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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      24 minutes ago

      My class was repeatedly threatened for using more than one finger on a calculator to solve chemistry equations. “If I see those Nintendo thumbs…

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      5 hours ago

      Yes, I’m currently typing on a device that can function as a calculator

      Maths teachers should really be saying that they’re teaching us how to do maths on a calculator

      I’m horrible at maths though probably because of my autism spectrum disorder

      I’ve only improved in areas of maths where I’ve self taught myself mental shortcuts to do it in my head

      School helped somewhat with the Autism accommodations here in Australia but not that much, I find making my own accommodations and self teaching myself years later is way better than the accommodations provided by my school

      They really should take student feedback in a lot more

    • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      I’m in first year of university and we use calculator for everything except math, but math we do is actually easy that you don’t need calculator.