• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. Having practical applications for higher math makes that shit stick like glue when otherwise it would get forgotten immediately after the test.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      They’re getting downvoted because there’s a lot of esoterical people demanding that we learn stuff either for the joy of it (which many are not at all having btw) or because it “purifies character” or sth.

      Practical applications are felt like an impurity to that.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Apparently knowing people learn differently and that mathematicians are a tiny minority is neoliberal…