• jrs100000@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Maybe the bigger problem is that the education system is teaching things that AI is already able to ace. Love it or hate it, AI isnt going away and it also has serious and persistent shortfalls that probably wont be resolved without further breakthroughs. We should stop feeding students busy work and pretending its an education.

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      11 hours ago

      So? Calculators have been better at math than students for the longest time, do we delete basic math from the curriculum too?

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        10 hours ago

        Basic math no, but math programs advanced to focus on fractions over decimal calculations right around the time students started carrying calculators in their watches.

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          6 hours ago

          I see that we are making things up now, aren’t we.

          Besides, what does “focus on fractions over decimal calculations” even mean? Fractions and decimals are inextricably linked. Even more, there are calculations that can be expressed more precisely as fractions than with decimals, and there are those that can be expressed as decimals but not as fractions.