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by baud147258 1111 days ago
> One example she gives is math class: In France, students are taught to calculate pi as a class before using it in a formula.

As a French, I don't think I ever calculated pi, we were just handed the formulas and told to use it and I don't think I saw an exercise on how to calculate pi for a few years (or maybe I didn't saw it at school...)

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> As a French, I don't think I ever calculated pi, we were just handed the formulas and told to use it and I don't think I saw an exercise on how to calculate pi for a few years (or maybe I didn't saw it at school...)

The PI example might be slightly exaggerated but it is not such a far fetch.

For my generation, most advanced Mathematics were taught in France by first a theorem proof and then by an example on how to use it. I do not know if it is still the case nowadays.

I remember learning how to approximate pi at around 10 years old. Not in France.