Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "Why Common Core math problems look so weird" video.

  1. my high school math teacher called my mother and said "Dr Deuteron (not a Dr at the time) would not be required to show his work. He thinks different" God I loved her. I remember when Reagan got shot., she talked her experiences on the day JFK got assassinated. And that was the only non-math conversation we ever had--actually no, there was one more thing.
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  2. all of math is 1 + 1 = 2. everything else IS A SHORT CUT.
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  3. 2.54 cm = 1 inch is exact. 0.3048 (iirc) is meter/foot. 5280 ft/mile. 12 fit/inch. You gotta know this [poop emoji] cold.
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  4. ikr. might as well break it down to the fundamental operation: increment n = n + 1. Then addition is repeated increment. Multiplication is repeated addition. Exponentiation is repeated multiplication. Hypoexponentiation is repeated exponentiation...and so on. It deconstructs the whole reason we have operators on the 1st place.
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