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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Trigonometry. My high school math teacher was a literal math genius and would always go deep into proofs and theory, sometimes not even getting to our homework stuff until the last 5 minutes of our 50 minute class. As a result I went from the "gifted" math group to nearly failing.

When I went to college I had to take a math placement test and ended up in Math 99 (below college level math).

It was there I was finally taught SohCahToa and everything clicked. I actually use simple trig a lot in my job now.

[–] OberonSwanson 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Interested to hear more about SohCahToa, my only terrible subject was Math, or more specifically, Algebra.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] OberonSwanson 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks for the link

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Some Old Hag Cracked All Her Teeth On Apples.

Hope that clarifies everything sufficiently!

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