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Should magic be "mystical," unknowable, etc.? [Pick 2, no takebacks!]
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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8543300" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>Well that’s the rub, isn’t it <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😅" title="Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" /></p><p></p><p>Trig was where math lost me. I <em>did very well</em> in trig because I could follow the formulas and get the right answers, but for the first time in my academic career, I didn’t really understand <em>why</em> I was doing what I was doing. Which is a shame, because my number sense is actually pretty good, and up until that point math had come very naturally to me. But for all I knew, Soh Cah Toa were magic words, which if said correctly would transmute the numbers I was given into the numbers I was supposed to give back. And since I resigned myself to simply following the instructions to get the right answer, I never retained any of it, and any math more advanced would forevermore be beyond my grasp.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, the symbols themselves don’t intimidate me. Using symbols as a shorthand to express more complex meaning is something I understand well. The problem is, again, that I reached a point in my education where I no longer really knew what the symbols actually <em>meant</em> or <em>why</em> I was supposed to use a particular one in the context I was supposed to use it in. I just knew which buttons to push to make the black box tell me what the teacher wanted me to write on the paper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8543300, member: 6779196"] Well that’s the rub, isn’t it 😅 Trig was where math lost me. I [I]did very well[/I] in trig because I could follow the formulas and get the right answers, but for the first time in my academic career, I didn’t really understand [I]why[/I] I was doing what I was doing. Which is a shame, because my number sense is actually pretty good, and up until that point math had come very naturally to me. But for all I knew, Soh Cah Toa were magic words, which if said correctly would transmute the numbers I was given into the numbers I was supposed to give back. And since I resigned myself to simply following the instructions to get the right answer, I never retained any of it, and any math more advanced would forevermore be beyond my grasp. Yeah, the symbols themselves don’t intimidate me. Using symbols as a shorthand to express more complex meaning is something I understand well. The problem is, again, that I reached a point in my education where I no longer really knew what the symbols actually [I]meant[/I] or [I]why[/I] I was supposed to use a particular one in the context I was supposed to use it in. I just knew which buttons to push to make the black box tell me what the teacher wanted me to write on the paper. [/QUOTE]
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