• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “Points at the smaller thing”

    Every time I watch a student stall out on inequalities I ask “it’s the crocodile isn’t it?”. Without fail, they’ve got confused by it and as soon as they hear “points at the smaller thing” they have no issues.

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      yeah its literally a graph. the bigger side is the bigger number. the smaller, surprise, smaller number.