If they wanted me to follow some rules that I'm apparently expected to know to make everyone comfortable, maybe they should've taught me that in school instead of trigonometry -_-
@BudgieMania@Martineski To be fair, most children learn those rules at school by interacting with others. School is not just about the textbook material.
IKR? My next vanity project will be updating the blog software I wrote to use ActivityPub for the comment section. I don't know if it'll work, but I'm sure I'll learn something trying!
With that said I I will admit I couldn't tell you off the top of my head what trigonometry actually is.
It's the study of the geometry of triangles (trigon - three-sided polygon + metry - roughly measurement of, with an extra o to join them together). You can use the basic principles of some parts of it to make life easier.
For example, the "3-4-5 rule", based on the Pythagorean Theorem. If you need to make sure that something is roughly a 90° angle measure 3 units up one side and mark it, 4 units up the other and mark it, then measure the distance between the marks. If it is 5 units, then you have a 90° angle. The super cool thing is that you can use any unit used to measure linear distance; inches, angstroms, furlongs, kilometers, beard-seconds, whatever.
I used to think like this but let's be honest, it's not a fair shake. Social services should be somewhat capable of making up for poor, abusive, or absent parenting. School being the one social service children are practically guaranteed to interact with, it seems like a fair approach.
Maybe additionally, trigonometry is actually pretty useful. Learning capacity isn't that limited, it's motivation and attention that's constantly out of stock.