No, You Did Not Make a Silly Mistake

by Sanjana Kulkarni and Justin Skycak on

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No, you did not make a silly mistake. You made a mistake.

You dropped the negative sign. You forgot to carry.

You didnโ€™t flip the fraction before. Now, those mistakes might seem silly because you know how to avoid them but knowing how is not the same thing as actually doing it reliably.

And if you keep making silly mistakes, then it means the skill is not actually automatic yet. And the solution isnโ€™t to just shrug them off.

Nah, itโ€™s more practice until getting it right becomes the default.

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