Once when I was in 10th grade, I copied an equation I saw in a Superboy comic book. I showed it to my math teacher and asked what it meant. His response? "That's Calculus. I don't know." Granted, he probably meant: "That's Calculus. I don't want to waste my time explaining it to a 10th grade Algebra student." but either way it was the wrong thing to say. This was 1966. It's not a new issue.
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Once when I was in 10th grade, I copied an equation I saw in a Superboy comic book. I showed it to my math teacher and asked what it meant. His response? "That's Calculus. I don't know." Granted, he probably meant: "That's Calculus. I don't want to waste my time explaining it to a 10th grade Algebra student." but either way it was the wrong thing to say. This was 1966. It's not a new issue.