it's really bizarre how often students are like "help i'm stuck on this problem" and when you ask what they're stuck on they reveal that they don't even know the meaning of one or more of the words in it
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like... of course you're stuck on the problem, you don't even know what it's asking! but for some reason it doesn't occur to them to ask "help what does this even mean"
maybe they don't feel like they're allowed to?
cursed school system
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I find this is fairly common in my every day experience of trying to understand things. I'm confused about something, then when I try to define my confusion I realize that I don't even have a full grasp of what I was trying to understand in the first place.
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that defining confusion step is real valuable