Lol it is because I learned what significant figures are in school that I went down a rabbit hole about the philosophy of measurement underlying it as a teen Blew my mind, Roger S Jones' Physics for the Rest of Us, highly recommend it
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The reason students check out of classroom education is precisely because these subjects are taught as received wisdom Like you're programming them to be obedient and predictable machines who spit out "the right answer" when challenged What human being wouldn't resist that
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Of course they see their classes as pointless drudgery intended to waste their time and break their spirits Why do you care so much about making them get "the right answer" You have it already on your answer sheet Just ask your calculator
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