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I have waited several years to say it, and now I will.

Math sucks. It makes absolutely no sense. It's a collection of disparate subjects with problems that can be solved by plugging in the numbers that correspond with the given formula or method. I don't know why they bother repetitively teaching a subject like that, because it's meaningless and uninteresting. Why people don't understand or care to learn the subject should be obvious!

I swear. I am going to bop a Mathematician on the head some day, and demand he/she translate every formula in English and show me how it was derived.

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It's perfectly logical.  It's just something you don't necessarily get.  If it wasn't logical, the construction of buildings, along with millions of other scientific things, would be screwed up, and we would notice because nothing would work.  tongue

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Maths is more important then English...

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4 Reply by Justinian I (edited by Justinian I 18-Feb-2009 06:45:05)

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> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:

> It's perfectly logical.  It's just something you don't necessarily get.  If it wasn't logical, the construction of buildings, along with millions of other scientific things, would be screwed up, and we would notice because nothing would work.  tongue>

Well, they teach it illogically in the US.

Skoe,

Yeah if you can understand it. You don't learn German (if English is your native tongue) until you can translate the words.

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5 Reply by Theodora (edited by Theodora 18-Feb-2009 07:21:06)

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Math is one of the most useful subjects you'll ever learn in school. tongue Until you get to advanced Calculus and Algebra that is. If you're taking those courses....you should be planning on a career that requires them smile


I went to Wendy's with my SO a couple of weeks ago for a quick bite. Their computer system went down while we were standing in line. The 40 year-old manager started freaking out and announcing that they couldn't sell anything and they'd have to close the store.

Her 16 year-old cashier, pulled out a piece of paper and his watch calculator and said, we can just do the math ourselves. To which she replied, "How do we do that."

He proceeded to calculate how much people owed for their order.


So sure...math is meaningless....if your life goals include working at Wendys when you're 40 big_smile




P.S. Just so I don't glorify the boy too much...he does work at Wendy's after all...he forgot that in Ontario, you don't charge one of the taxes on orders under $3.00, so he overcharged me...but I let it fly.

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6 Reply by ~Pw 32~ Random Hero (edited by ~Pw 32~ Random Hero 18-Feb-2009 07:39:22)

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Mathematics teaches abstract and logical thinking, it helps you recognize patterns and improves your method of thinking (most useful in critical situations [e.g. critical thinking]). If you fail at math, or just aren't that great than your ability to think abstract and logically is impaired, thus weeding you out of certain careers that require intelligence, confidence, and certainty.

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> Theodora wrote:

> P.S. Just so I don't glorify the boy too much...he does work at Wendy's after all...he forgot that in Ontario, you don't charge one of the taxes on orders under $3.00, so he overcharged me...but I let it fly.


Don't let it slide!  Bring it to court!  I'm sure he was deliberately trying to screw you over in that regard!  Nay, the entire store's register malfunction was a vast conspiracy so they could overcharge people without them complaining.

Bring it to the highest court in the land!  Don't let them get away with it!

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pi is exactly 3!

Yes, you're special. Just like everyone else.

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> [Stupid] Arachnophobia wrote:

> pi is exactly 3!

ERROR ERROR STUPID OVERLOAD

*explode*



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Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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My point is that the US public school system can't teach Math.

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Come to Belgium where an education is not frowned upon

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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I'm so confused. I thought you were a student of logic and the human capacity to reason? Obviously I was wrong. tongue

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Math has value.

But it makes no sense to students when it's taught in a "memorize this formula" fashion. Moreover, uselessly broad and disparate subjects make no sense. Rather than build from level 1 to level 2, they talk about another level 1 subject that's perfectly pointless.

People who know math around here studied it independently, or worked their way up to learn it in university (I know one woman like that. She started out doing pre-algebra, and is now doing differential equations heh).

Haha, even in science. They don't teach any science or care to present it so it makes sense until college. Get that one. Americans, if they are lucky to get in to college, probably won't understand Evolution until they take a biology or archaeology course there.

I want the power to go fire happy towards the education system and politicians for being a bunch of faggots.

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Democracy terrifies me. It's in the hands of a stupid people. What happens? We're watching history in the making!

I saw the movie Idiocracy a few nights ago and what alarmed me was that the retards of the future weren't any worse than many people are now. Sure, people now aren't literally that mentally impaired, but they make many important decisions (such as voting on school boards) with no more information or actively engaged intelligence than the retards of the film.

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Math confuses me a lot. I have a very difficult time with it.

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> Theodora wrote:

> I went to Wendy's with my SO a couple of weeks ago for a quick bite.


1st of all, Wendy's, eh? your SO must be a big spender tongue

2nd, lol, when i first read this i was thinking of the Mod, Wendy, and was thinking, Theo knows Wendy in rl?!

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> Zarf BeebleBrix wrote:
> It's perfectly logical.  It's just something you don't necessarily get. [...] <

Kinda like me and this game... damn maths X(

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"People who know math around here studied it independently"

Funny you said that, because yes i actually had to teach myself Algebra in college as my professor sucked at explaining it, after grapsing the idea that everything has a formula and if you follow the formula you can't go wrong things got simplier.

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math is propaganda

C'mon, you apes wanna live forever?!

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This entire game can be simplified down to my math formula v. your math formula. how could you hate math? unless... you hate IC! Blasfimy!!

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I don't hate IC, it's the best forum on the Internets ! Unless you ment the game:D

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Lol. As John Locke said in "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", someone who does not know and understand mathematics can never be a smart or philosophical person for he has never learned to think coherently and logically. Condemned IA! tongue

And maths is per defenition logical and makes sense... Learning defenitions by heart isn't difficult if you understand them, they always have a certain sequence with premises and conclusions, which on their turn learn you valuable things as well

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Math, blah.. Never was good at it, I can't say I hate it, since it has it uses from time to time. But I'd rather be doing something else.

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Hume > Locke

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Grushdeva owned you. tongue

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