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ekm2 on Aug 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open letter to Sal Khan

I fail to see how Sal Khan is not getting everything exactly right.None of my math teachers ever presented math perfectly,but what they gave was enough to get me to graduate top of my college math class.Do not sweat the small stuff,man.

eropple on Aug 4, 2013 [–]

Presenting material in a way that impresses upon students that 0.35 is bigger than 0.4 is not "small stuff".

ekm2 on Aug 4, 2013 | [–]

The point is that it does not spell doom to the rest of your mathematical career because one fact was wrong back in first grade

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