Comment by mettamage
10 months ago
This is how I currently am relearning upper high school math. It’s tremendously helpful as I am a why guy.
Why is the angle called m? Why is a combination nPr * (1/r)? What is 1/r doing there?
I use mathacademy.com as my source of practice. Usually that’s enough but I tend to fall over if small details aren’t explained and I can’t figure out why those details are there.
In high school this was punished. With state of the art LLMs, I have a good tutor.
Also it’s satisfying to just upload a page in my own handwriting and it understands what I did, and is able to correct me there.
The fact that we see lower grades as "punishment" is the root of the problem: grades are an assessment of our understanding level and competence on a topic.
Now, I know psychologically it's not as simple, and both society and ourselves equate academic (and professional, later on) success with personal worth, but that's a deeper, harder topic.