I was croaking my way through lab today, when one student told me…
“This class has more math than any of my other classes!”
Which means I’m teaching it well. We haven’t even gotten to enzyme kinetics yet — that’s Friday.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Was there a note of surprise about so much math in a biology class?
For us nerds who like math, your subject suddenly got more attractive.
Clearly this was not a British student.
It only has one math. That’s not much. Most science classes in the rest of the English speaking world has two or more maths in it.
When I was co-teaching a Genetics class a student came up to my colleague after the first lecture and asked, “Will this class be hard?”
He replied, “Yes. It will be hard. And that’s Good!”
I high-fived him!
Somewhat of a math pusher, as it were?
… is there such a thing as a MathMaxxer?
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My brother. Won every statewide maths competition. So annoying. X-D
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He’s literally has one job his entire life – won a scholarship with the ABS and has been there his entire life. True story.
He’s my Mycroft. X-D
https://www.abs.gov.au/
SilentBob ^: thanks for the clarification. I assumed he worked on modeling the deceleration capability of modern cars…
@7. John Morales : “… is there such a thing as a MathMaxxer?”
There probly kinda roughly are but they are not called that. They tend to be denigrated for, well, absolutely no good reasons and called things like “nerds” and “geeks” and “elites” and, well, mathematicians. Or topologists, geometricians etc..but much more rarely..
Its odd & truly saddening how sporting and artistic brillance and focus gets so much more applauded, celebrated and appreciated rather than mathematical and scientific excellence, effort and dedication.
Physical aesthetic preferences and working to and idealising those as the ideal? Shallow but socially acceptable and applauded and seen as normal and good.
Intellectual ideals and loving and focusing on and dedicating your time and effort and mind to abstract maths and gemetry and intellect generally? Not so much.
There’s a long sad, horrid streak of anti-intellectualism in esp the USoA but also her einOz and elsewhere in much of the “West.” To our massive collective disadvantage and harm. Makes no good sense but its there, so brutally, wretchedly there.
i hope that student isn’t taking a calc or stats class this semester…