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Me not showing my work in math. Always getting the right answer, but not showing the tedious details.
Whelp, math is all about the tedious details
You're correct, but it's a bit rude to call them a whelp.
Whoops, didn't intend to call them a whelp. Just stramge quirk of me talking (welp, should write it like this, without the h. Is just an abreviation of well)
"Welp" is an abbreviation for "well"?
Absolutely you smoke a little and suddenly you're scrubbing the space behind the toilets and undersides of sinks.
I once had a teacher write “I have no idea how you got here, but this correct” on a test.
I’d forgotten some trig identity and derived the cosine law and then solved for all the angles with it to get the answer.
It was like that math joke where a mathematician is asked to boil water. The first time he takes the pot off the shelf, fills it with water, then puts it on the stove and boils it.
The next day he’s asked to boil water again. The pot is on the counter with water in it. He dumps the water out, and puts it back on the shelf, as that is a known solved state for boiling water.
So why memorize the formula we were studying when I could just solve more angles and then get the lengths.
This works, until it doesn't. And then you can't go back and find the mistake, and save time by both realizing the error part and not having to redo it all to get there.
I get it, I was bad about that too, but any form of writing improves the understanding of the concepts because it uses a different part of the brain that I think retains better than the one doing the thinking work.
Its like commenting in code. If you have good comments, it can help you find the error. No comments and gotta spend the time figuring out where it went wrong.
Yes. It's like code comments.
We all do that, so understand your point.
All of us...
It's usually an understandable thing to expect for a math problem, but sometimes they can get pretty petty with it when the skipped parts are obvious for that level of understanding