Math Pessimism, Edited: Graphing
A student's 'I'm so bad at graphing' is edited into learning Descartes's coordinate system.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-02-03-math-pessimism-edited-graphing/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Before] "This class makes me feel stupid. I'm so bad at graphing."
[After] "This class makes me feel ~~stupid~~ brilliant. I'm ~~so bad at graphing~~ learning a conceptual framework devised by the greatest philosopher of the last millennium!"