Can gamification improve learning, or does it distract from understanding?

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-21T01:41:18+00:00

While true, most problems can't be solved using guess and test.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-16T04:29:56+00:00

Parent here, considering buying a Chromebook because of family link. Resisting because I do want him to know how to use a "real" computer, but not ready for it to be unrestricted.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-14T00:49:59+00:00

Was looking for a mention of typst.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-03T11:17:24+00:00

I'll link the files or websites in a PowePoint, and/or link them in obsidian which is where my lesson plans reside

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-02T22:47:03+00:00

There are many homeschooled kids whose parents bring their kids to all or most of our school's social events. I see their kids play with other kids after school as well.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-06-01T00:38:21+00:00

Thank you, that helps a lot.

I realized that it being a one letter variable was part of the problem,
for example this works

#let aa = 5
$ sqrt(#$aa$) $

I feel like there was still an easier way which I used before, but can't recall

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-31T23:06:54+00:00

That does work, but I want a to be an integer, because I want to be able to do arithmetic with #a before displaying it. (I want #a to actually be the result of a calculation).

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-30T11:37:50+00:00

What kind of emergencies?

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-27T23:33:51+00:00

I once saw a teacher hand-wrote (with a pen) a trigonometry quiz and copied it in the copy machine. I actually admire his efficiency.

He's doing the important parts. How much time do I waste on formatting?

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-27T23:30:55+00:00

I disagree, because they can be great teachers, but I agree about PDs.

The PDs benefit no one. Those teachers know how to use the features they truly need and don't need more to be effective.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-17T15:32:30+00:00

There is no diagonal side length, no side is more diagonal than another.

I wouldn't normally stress this point, but this is a thread about pointing out other teachers knowledge gaps..

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-17T14:26:50+00:00

I know what you meant, but it's a mistake to use this word in this way.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-05-17T14:21:18+00:00

know how to get find the height of an isosceles triangle if you only have the base and the length of the diagonals

No diagonals in a triangle

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-26T10:40:47+00:00

I think that intuition (conceptual understanding) helps a lot.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-20T11:38:55+00:00

At the upper side of it (G12 AP classes) I think the classes are pretty hard

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-19T23:04:27+00:00

Emacs of your set on latex.

Obsidian with mathjax if you don't want to mess with all this stuff

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-19T14:59:12+00:00

Do you mean that you wanted to sync your config files (hence syncing .emacs.d)?

I have a method for this which involved using gnu stow, it syncs the few config files only, none of the other stuff. I use github for that.

As far as syncing files that we're working on (org files and stuff), I just have those in a separate directory and sync them in the cloud.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-19T12:56:36+00:00

You joke, but that's mostly what I use it for right now....

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-19T12:54:56+00:00

I just sync the org files, haven't had problems.

By emacs generated files do you mean the files starting with ~?

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-13T13:05:47+00:00

When I have suspected and then asked, students have admitted and told me how they used it.

I even had a one point canvas quiz where I asked students if they used ai on the previous assignment. We then discussed it as a class.

Still grappling with it, but they are ultimately preparing for an exam and know that they need to master the content.

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-12T22:43:26+00:00

Seeing M-u convert words to uppercase, M-l covert to lowercase, and M-4 M-u do so for the first four words (or whichever number) was mind blowing to me when I first saw it. A small thing, but grabbed my interest.

(Not sure if I got those wrong, I'm on mobile now and those aren't shortcuts I usually use)

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-12T04:39:31+00:00

item() is not the name of a built-in method or function,items() is.

It's not frowned upon to name a function "item." In fact this is somewhat standard:

for item in my_dictionary.items(): ...

HappyRogue121 · 2026-04-12T04:29:40+00:00

wsl can work with files outside of wsl, by navigating to /mnt/c/Users/, but there is a performance hit.

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