Re: Exponentation


kibby wrote:

2. I teach high school, not college you jackass.

Ah yes. When one runs out of something to say, resort to
namecalling... Very mature.

3. How dare you insult me based purely on a question like the one I
asked.

You posted something that strongly implied that you believed that
(a^b)^1/c = (a^1/c)^b. I do not know you personally, but to make
this kind of statement shows a fundamental lack of understanding
of some very basic high school mathematics.

The pathetic high school teachers are the ones who, like you,
are so cocky and caught up in their own self-glorification that they
would give a wrong answer before saying "I don't know."

No. The pathetic math teachers are the ones who got degrees in
education from a second-tier state "teachers college" and who
DO NOT KNOW THEIR SUBJECT. Such teachers are the norm
these days. They got their degree at such an institution because they
were not capable of getting a math degree from a real college. Nor
could they get into a real college.


With an
undergraduate degree in math, how would I be unqualified to teach
courses up to high school calculus?

You wouldn't. But you did not say you had an undergraduate
math degree. I have been participating in this newsgroup for
23 years. Incompetent high school teachers have been the norm, rather
than
the exception.

When one reads something that implies lack of
understanding, it is best to assume incompetence simply because
this will be the correct explanation most of the time.

Two years ago, I had to pull my oldest child from a high school
math class taught by an idiot who believed that .99999.... was the
"last number before 1" and could not even state the rational roots
theorem even though she was teaching polynomial factorization at the
time. And this was an honors class.

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