You could couch this as the five stages of grief in math too:
Denial: It can’t be this hard…
Anger: OH MY GOD IT REALLY IS THIS HARD…
Bargaining: I’d do anything to make this easier…
Depression: I’ll never calculate anything, my life is over…
Acceptance: Fine, I’ll just pay the nerdy kid to take the test for me…
You could couch this as the five stages of grief in math too:
Denial: It can’t be this hard…
Anger: OH MY GOD IT REALLY IS THIS HARD…
Bargaining: I’d do anything to make this easier…
Depression: I’ll never calculate anything, my life is over…
Acceptance: Fine, I’ll just pay the nerdy kid to take the test for me…
Or, if you’re the Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland, “ambition”, “distraction”, “uglification” and “derision”. Derision seems to be a common theme…
Add two more stages- identifying the error,-blossoming joy at finding the right path.
Great post. “My calculator says it’s 4.” How could a calculator ever be wrong?