Literacy, sure. Like I can see say a formula for a median, or how to plot a simple linear regression, but I cannot actually do that math myself on paper without fucking it up. The more steps the worse it gets. I might genuinely have dyscalculia or something idk.
With a calculator though? No problem. Never any issues with doing budgeting or some basic statistics. If anything I’m kind of known as the math-sy one amongst my peers just because I know a bit more than an average person about statistics due to my interest in economics and politics, and a little bit about electricity from my hobby in electronics with breadboards and shit.
Heck I remember writing a calculator app for my mobile app dev class in my compsci bsc and one time testing it while hunting for a weird bug, a result looked wrong, but as it turns out it was actually me that was wrong, and the result was right.
In my cybersec MSc I got really fucked by them inexplicably making us do IP address calculations in binary, but then I can also count on my fingers in binary, and made a full adder circuit once.
Tomorrow I’ll be calculating memory offsets to practice buffer overflows, but I still don’t even know most of the multiplication table, and subtracting or adding double digit numbers takes me a minute in my head.
Basic mathematical literacy is a prerequisite to being able to use a calculator.
Literacy, sure. Like I can see say a formula for a median, or how to plot a simple linear regression, but I cannot actually do that math myself on paper without fucking it up. The more steps the worse it gets. I might genuinely have dyscalculia or something idk.
With a calculator though? No problem. Never any issues with doing budgeting or some basic statistics. If anything I’m kind of known as the math-sy one amongst my peers just because I know a bit more than an average person about statistics due to my interest in economics and politics, and a little bit about electricity from my hobby in electronics with breadboards and shit.
Heck I remember writing a calculator app for my mobile app dev class in my compsci bsc and one time testing it while hunting for a weird bug, a result looked wrong, but as it turns out it was actually me that was wrong, and the result was right.
In my cybersec MSc I got really fucked by them inexplicably making us do IP address calculations in binary, but then I can also count on my fingers in binary, and made a full adder circuit once.
Tomorrow I’ll be calculating memory offsets to practice buffer overflows, but I still don’t even know most of the multiplication table, and subtracting or adding double digit numbers takes me a minute in my head.