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  • psud@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Teacher should have shown you how a number line extends forever in both directions (no reason to think she should have known about imaginary numbers making it extend orthogonally as well)

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      1 year ago

      The teacher probably had no idea what negative numbers were, and if they did, had no training on how to explain that to a six-year-old.