The amount of people losing their shit over a mathematician saying "there are instances where 2+2=5" is why you will never be able to convince transphobes to stop oppressing trans people
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But failing that, I *like* being talked over the head of It's a challenge, it's a game TH White wrote very vividly about this in The Sword and the Stone, young Wart learning more from Merlyn muttering to himself in his lab than from his actual lessons
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"The feeling of strange thoughts and ideas he couldn't understand flowing past him in a torrent, plucking out errant words and phrases he knew like fish from a stream, saving the most fascinating mysteries in his memory for later, like a map to buried treasure"
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I remember very clearly this moment where my first-grade teacher was educating us on, iirc, decimeters and centimeters and getting so angry because I knew of the existence of millimeters and this bitch was HIDING THE TRUTH
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In first grade I remember my teacher saying "you can't subtract 7 from 5, because there are no numbers below zero" and a hero (fellow first grader) stood up to say "no, the answer would just be negative"
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The worst thing of those elementary 'gifted' years, in my opinion, is that there was no push to excel. I'd love to know what I could have accomplished if instead of accolades for doing the expected work quickly, I had been pushed to a level of discomfort.
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We had a computer program where we had to do math lessons for an hour a week, ordered by expected grade level. I blew through the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th grades during 4th grade, but in math class I just went back to 4th grade.
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