Jose Vilson, PhD

The word “simplify” has always been weird to me, too, yes. Thanks for this.

I was definitely referring to that, too!

Ironically, that new math isn’t all that new, but don’t mind me. I’m neck deep in research on some of this stuff. 🤓

Thank you for sharing that as that's part of the work as well.

FWIW, I failed Calc II the first time. I took it again and passed because different professor and different perspective.

"Liberalism" or whatever.

See how … smh. Thank you for sharing!

Yeeaaahhhhhhhhh same.

Both of these comments, yes.

Agreed. That’s where Alg2 starts losing the argument for me.

Wow. Thank you for the vulnerability here.

Copy!

Oh?

The area model is clutch and it’s sad that I wasn’t taught it as a kid. 😂

Listen, same. Long division is super helpful with polynomial division but division as a procedure is convoluted.

Thank you!

The latter part, yes.

Or even FFTDFM :-)

Yeah you need the right explanation for this to work too. Otherwise, it's just "do as I say ..."

YEP!

Agreed here!

FWIW, that's one of the first things I tackled in my forthcoming book :-)

Mmhmmmm. It's supposed to make things easier, but people don't take time to help us understand what it accomplishes.

Here, I was expecting another F-word, but I'll take it.

Thanks for elevating this. My notifications got a little action today. 😏😅

Mmmmhmmmm. And really, the formulas shouldn't matter as much as what we do with them and how we got them.

Actually, yes to this. I get *why* we do proofs, but the logic can be difficult if you're not steeped in the axioms.

That's ultimately at the heart of what I'm seeing with respect to the struggles people are sharing with me.

Yeah, I'm not sure what synthetic division is supposed to accomplish that long division of polynomials doesn't already do (though I do get it from an efficiency standpoint).

Thanks for being mad nevertheless! 😅

Thank you!