I have a math question

[mawilson 2,133]

*sigh*

No wonder we're #387655578920 in maths.

[tmma 467]

*sigh*

No wonder we're #387655578920 in maths.

Why do YOU think that is?

[HAL 9000 96]

You guys are a bunch of nerds.

[NickD 203]

*sigh*

No wonder we're #387655578920 in maths.

Why do YOU think that is?

Knew a 3rd grade teacher with a Ph.D., instead of making her class memorize addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tables, she just said, look it up. How many kids have you ran across behind the counter that couldn't give change for a buck?

Factoring is way beyond the scope of this thread.

[mawilson 2,133]

*sigh*

No wonder we're #387655578920 in maths.

Why do YOU think that is?

Most people are basically brainless idiots, a problem exacerbated by television and its culture of stupidity?

[Staashi 371]

*sigh*

No wonder we're #387655578920 in maths.

Why do YOU think that is?

Most people are basically brainless idiots, a problem exacerbated by television and its culture of stupidity?

Amen! That is why I adore books.

[Jenn! 918]

I watch a lot of TV (and always have), but I'm still good at math. Maybe if I switched off the ####### tube, I'd be a super genius, but somehow I doubt that.

Edited September 8, 2009 by Jenn!

[Ken y Leidys 20]

The problem is mostly them not grasping BASIC mathematics properly when they were younger before being shuffled into the next class.

The problem for me was being shuffled from school to school during my Elementary years. By the 9th Grade, I had attended 6 different schools. My parents tried their best to help explain Math to me, but they barely understood it themselves. Now, as an adult - I have a strong respect for Math and those who are well-versed with it, but I can barely understand it myself. In college, I took 7 Math courses before I could pass the required entry-level course - with barely a C grade.

[NickD 203]

Do you get to use a scientific calculator? So much easier, back in my day, had to carry a book of mathematic tables with trig, common, and natural logarithms. Such a pain, besides solving the equation, had one professor that demanded 5 significant digit accuracy, slide rule was only good for three, I could do four. Such a pain to interpolate these tables, then using logs to raise a five significant digit, but had to use six to any power or root using these books of tables, then trying to remember what the problem was even about. So much easier with a scientific calculator, easier yet with MathCad, that will even solve the equation for you. Easier yet with application specific programs that do all the calculations for you. So you can you your imagination to design something better than be burden with all this trivial stuff. But also have to live with rush to market that takes a lot of the fun out of it.

In learning about interest equations, led me to build my own home, can pay the bank back three times what your house loan was for. And yes, rather pay 30% of that interest money to the government, then 100% of it to the bank.

[Ken y Leidys 20]

Do you get to use a scientific calculator?

I would have no idea on how to program one.