Math

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Hey,


Did you like Taking Math in School. Math as in, Any type of Math?

[Fragony]

Hated that I was so bad at it because I wanted to love it.

[King Henry V]

Thank you for reminding me that have a maths oral exam tomorrow which I really need to revise for.
BTW, mine's a double GAH with ice.

[Viking]

Speaking of which I have a math test the very day tomorrow.

It's an awesome subject since unlike others, there is only one real answer to whatever task you're presented. Well apart from quadratic and cubic equations and so on..

I am taking R1 math, the most advanced course I can take at this level; not that "advanced" means too much.

[Tristuskhan]

I've hated Maths until I was 30 years old, when I discovered how trigonometry was useful in my job (to calculate the tree's height without chopping it down).

But that's really the only thing I like about Math.

[Ronin]

I always liked statistics....always hated everything else.

[Craterus]

I got an A* at GCSE. Not too sure why I didn't take it forward, I always found it easy.

[naut]

At school it was fine, but we had an awesome teacher, so that always makes a difference. However, at Uni the only Maths I do is mixed in my Accounting class, and it sucks... big time.

[Ramses II CP]

The question in the poll is very different from the question in the first post. I despised math classes at my high school because they were hideously backward and taught by ignorant, resentful teachers.

Studying math, especially theory, on my own was quite a different matter, and well worth doing.

[Motep]

math, we love you. Just dont care much for many of those who teach it...

[TevashSzat]

I like math mainly because I'm pretty good at it by nature.

My teacher is okay though, but the Calc BC stuff she's teaching right now (partial derivatives of multivariable functions) kinda confuses the whole class. Literally more than a third of a class fails her tests regularly and the class average on tests is like a 58%

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I used to hate the fact that, in the highest stream of our education system, I always had teachers who would only tell you when to do something, not why you did it. That always frustrated me, because to grasp the theory I feel that you should know why you do everything in math.

[Quirinus]

I used to hate the fact that, in the highest stream of our education system, I always had teachers who would only tell you when to do something, not why you did it. That always frustrated me, because to grasp the theory I feel that you should know why you do everything in math.

Exactly! Me too.... similarly, I like science, but I do hate how they teach it in school. They never tell you why differentiation is like that, or why there is a tricuspid valve in the right ventricle but only a bicuspid vavle in the left.

I rather enjoyed statistics and probability though. Those two topics were the only ones I enjoyed in Maths.

[Viking]

They never tell you why differentiation is like that, or why there is a tricuspid valve in the right ventricle but only a bicuspid vavle in the left.

Well, let's say you wanted to differentiate f (x) =(2X+1)^5 without using any of the easy and straight forward rules.


It should go like this

ΔY = (2(ΔX+X)+1)^5 -(2X+1)^5

f ' (x) =

lim (ΔY/ΔX)
ΔX --> 0


have fun.



hint: it'll take some time.

[GeneralHankerchief]

They need to make that calculus and linear *#%! optional after geometry. Seriously. Only a certain, small portion of society is ever going to need it and it is easily learnable in college. Instead, they should teach practical math in HS and make it mandatory, so when people go out on their own they'll actually have a ing clue about how to survive financially.

But NOOOOOO, never mind that! These kids are smart! They'll be able to figure out stuff like the tax code and how to balance a checkbook and how high credit card interest rates actually are, so maybe if they DO all figure it out our rates won't be so freaking high because people will actually PAY OFF THEIR DEBTS by themselves! Besides, none of that's important anyway! After all, there are functions to be derived and integrated! Isn't that exciting?





...I'll take my pills now.

[Motep]

I like math mainly because I'm pretty good at it by nature.

My teacher is okay though, but the Calc BC stuff she's teaching right now (partial derivatives of multivariable functions) kinda confuses the whole class. Literally more than a third of a class fails her tests regularly and the class average on tests is like a 58%

Sounds like Mr. Godtlands class, except for the fact that he sucks all the time.

[Csargo]

But NOOOOOO, never mind that! These kids are smart! They'll be able to figure out stuff like the tax code and how to balance a checkbook and how high credit card interest rates actually are, so maybe if they DO all figure it out our rates won't be so freaking high because people will actually PAY OFF THEIR DEBTS by themselves! Besides, none of that's important anyway! After all, there are functions to be derived and integrated! Isn't that exciting?

I took that instead of Pre-cal

[GeneralHankerchief]

I took that instead of Pre-cal

Ah, looks like it's just my system that's all daisied up then. Either that or you're a lucky one.

Figures.