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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:56
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Love it or hate it?
For me, I hate it.
I'm sitting on my bed now attempting to finish my work. I have 5 questions to go... the last 5 questions I will EVER have to do, besides my exam thats in 2 weeks time. After that, no more maths! Woohoo!
But... These last 5 questions... completely stumped... kinda frusterating! Since I'm so close!
Do you enjoy maths? Or did you in school? Is it actually useful to you in everyday life? (besides basic multiplication, counting money etc) |
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Last Login: 12 March 2015 12:07
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I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT!!!!!!
I have no logic....
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:56
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Well I finished the questions... actually... I lied... I got all the questions wrong cos I pretty much made my own formulas to try solve them! lol
But... they're done... and thats all I care about... now I can't fail the whole unit... |
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Last Login: 14 October 2013 09:07
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| I loved it in school. Loved algebra. |
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Last Login: 13 August 2016 08:10
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I thought it was okay. I never had a love or hate for it.
Aww Jess, I hope you don't fail! Isn't there anybody that could help you to understand it better?
Good luck! |
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Last Login: 27 October 2011 13:34
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re: "cos I pretty much made my own formulas to try solve them! lol "
That pretty much sounds like you, Jess....
Look at the bright side, you could be studying Japanese still! Good luck on your maths....I know how much you hate it, but just forge through. You can do it. |
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Last Login: 23 June 2013 11:07
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| i think its ok.. i had 6 hours of maths today, which is horrible, especially if you have physics and science for public understanding on the same day as well *is really tired now* |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:54
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I hated Math- right from the beginning. First grade was a nightmare- and crotchety old teachers on the home stretch towards retirement should NOT teach mathematically illiterate first graders. There has to be a system to teach math to people who do not think 'logically' in the sequential sense that people who 'get" math do. Why aren't there remedial math programs for kids who struggle with numbers and formulas? Reading programs seem to be widely accepted in schools- why aren't there Math programs- parents volunteer their time to help elementary school students learn to read in schools my kids have been in. Surely there must be parents who have a 'gift' for math and explaining concepts to kids who need extra help. Call it the "Stand Up and Be Counted" program. Math matters to everyone- who doesn't want to understand the power of numbers and harness that by managing your own finances, calculating interst rates, playing the stock market and understnading all that mumbo jumbo in the finance section of your local newspaper, calculating how much materials and supplies you'll need to build a structure in your yard or build your own home without being at the mercy of trades people who are too busy and far between in a baby boom retirement crunch for skilled anybodies.
I didn't have enough fingers and toes when I was a kid learning about rudimentary math- I would have been so freakin' happy to have a electronic calculator back then... speaking of which, kids today use that contraption all together too much for them to truly grasp the operations of math and formulas if you ask me.. |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:58
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If I remember correctly, try reversing the formula you used to get your answeres to proofread them, and see if you end up with the same answer as the origional question.
Btw...I hated math..Could do it, but just HATED it! |
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Last Login: 11 March 2014 09:48
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| There is a kind of numbers dyslexia, mental arithmetic and me don't add up. I have real trouble remembering numbers, my own phone number or pin number. Yet some people remember a phone number when told it, they don't even write it down. (not their own, someone elses phone number LOL) |
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Last Login: 25 November 2010 11:40
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I hated Maths at Primary school, but then had a really good patient Maths teacher at Secondary school and something clicked and I loved it. I took Physics and Maths at A-level and then did my degree in Maths alongside my teaching qualification.
Freddy, the condition you refer to is called Dyscalclia (not sure on the spelling lol). Its pretty common. |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:58
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:58
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I remember talking to a boardie on chat about a formula she came up with for a sphere. The teacher was clueless, but she came up with the right answer anyway.
Come to think of it, I've done the same thing in math and other school subjects involving asthmatic uses...I even remember stating some sort of musing I came up with out of the blue since the teacher wanted to test that area of the class' mind, I'll share it here since it kinda relates to the subject. It won't be line for line, but this is what I remember of it:
As I cross the rickety bridge over the abyss, I wonder; jump, fly, or float.
The teacher must have thought I was thinking negatively and damn near freaked lol. I was merely just stating my confusion lol. |
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Last Login: 11 January 2014 14:34
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How can anyone hate math? You silly people! ;D
I absolutely love math, unless it is two in the morning and I have an assignment due in eight hours! |
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Last Login: 27 October 2011 13:34
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well.....you're a bit weird anyway, lil joey fan. 
I actually enjoyed math when I was younger, too....I'd have taken 10 math classes in exchange for one science/history anyday! |
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Last Login: 02 April 2013 11:27
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I LOVE maths. It was probably my best subject at school and I still use it alot now.
When I was working I used to prepare daily, weekly and yearly accounts for the company I worked for. Now I'm not working I'm treasurer for a local group and enjoy the bookkeeping.
My daughter is 12 and comes home from school with homework in areas of maths I haven't worked for years and I really enjoy re-learning the things I've forgotten. |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:56
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Well, I handed in all my maths stuff today... I hope she doesnt actually take a good look at it! lol
We also had a test, which I had completely forgotten about. Oh well, I don't think I failed it...
8 days of maths to go... |
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Last Login: 21 September 2011 07:09
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Oh dear, good luck with your final exams, Jessica!
I really hate maths... my marks aren't that bad but I hate it though. If I am good at a certain topic, I will have forgotten everything after the exam, which is no good for final exams. |
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Last Login: 12 December 2013 09:40
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| Thank God for calculators! |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:56
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| Maths exam tommorow... cr*p cr*p cr*p... how in the world do you work out similar triangles? This maths book makes NO sense... I'm seriously thinking of burning it once I'm done with it tommorow, it would sure feel great! |
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Last Login: 21 September 2011 07:09
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| Good luck Jessica!!!! All the best!!!!!! |
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Last Login: 20 November 2014 13:03
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Good luck Jess... if you're making up your own formulas your on your way to being a professor!! I loved maths but always got the wrong answers :-o.
Linear algebra was fun. PDF's and imaginary variables wasnt.
Cant bear Sudoku .. what a waste of B time!
Maths books never made any sense. There is nothing better than a really inspired and inspiring teacher.
Tree. |
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Last Login: 20 November 2014 13:03
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| Help why cant I edit my post to correct my spellings!!!!! |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:56
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Thanks guys
Haha Tree, I make my own formulas, yes... but theyre not right, theyre just something to put down so I dont fail for not doing a question! lol
I did my maths exam today. Somehow I dont think I went well, but then again, I dont think I failed.
Its all over... maths is all over... let the burning of maths book comence! |
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Last Login: 13 August 2016 08:10
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LOL Jess, is that like burning one's bra?  |
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Last Login: 27 October 2011 13:34
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Oh my! You've sure taken it one step further than your past protests of dying your hair and painting your nails.
Burning mathbooks...there's an idea that could be applied to many pains in life. : ) |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:58
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was the most difficult hieroglyphic matter to the basic numerical factors of the actual distinguishable compostion of the moon. Now just simply writing this has taken me more time than time had to offer. So, you should consider yourself lucky not to have to begin yourself with a father that records your age with the understanding of your first mathematical lesson which is actually Time.
I am not sure what verse even included a numerical version of the 1,2,3 in its basic lessons because if I remember correctly that was an ancient lesson learned at a place of underground contagions when I was bored. My note to myself on that day was do not ever say you are bored again. So, all I can say is keep up the good work and thank your lucky stars your Dad is not the sun and your mother is not the earth because if your father is the Sun, which by the way is no longer a star, but the Sun, you are just screwed.
Now, math is science and science is evolution and evolution is what is happening to explain mathematics in a quatum physics equation on this earth. Hence if the Sun was a star, which was a particle, which would concieveably could have been a dust particle, then just watch The Golden Compass, the movie, it would explain the rest so easily.
By the way, you understand when you choose to open up your mind and realize that ashes to ashes and dust to dust is something in a ceremony. However, it is also a mathmatical equation if you understand that words are numbers in translation of time, just like the Emerald Tablets, so eloquently shown to me this morning by a fellow writer. Ancient texts, tablets, stones, etc. are translated into different languages so you may understand the meaning, its exactly the same with math if you can loosen your grip on your mind and relax to the fact it is just fine.
The equation for a simple line.
Zero |
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Last Login: 11 March 2014 09:48
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Whhoooooo Zero, you make maths sound sexy LOL. Yes everything can be dismantled into a mathematical formula, I'm not even going to half pretend I can count to 10, but I love someone who can make think I understand whatever they are talking about.
What ever you do don't mention Dark Matter to Zero......"Dark Matter" (that's chocolate to the girls here) was mentioned to Steven Fry on his visit to the US scientific whatsit last night, the place where all hope for a future lies (Los Alamos?) Dark Matter is what makes nuclear physics a bit like buttering a slice of bread (yawn), these guys heads won't fit through garage doors. Only joking of course, but these guys do, or try to do what is impossible for most humans, they think outside the box, they can shed all the restraints that shackle most of us, and think freely.
Mathematics requires this otherwise you will give up and say "It can't be answered, it can't be done, all rules must be forgotten, new ones created if needed, and if the formula works and mathematics says it can be done, then it can.
Free Thinking, something we think we do, but if you've read a book, watched TV, talked to someone, had an education. Then what you think is basically what you have been taught to think or say. Isn't the human mind wonderful, all this information enters our brains, and I sat here waiting for the kettle to boil and I hadn't switched it on. Do you think there's any hope for me? freddy |
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Last Login: 20 November 2014 13:03
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Blimey Freddy ... you almost understood zero! there is far more hope for you han there is me!
And Jess....... who says your formulas arent more correct than the ones in your text book?
and WHO CARES!!!!!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .. you must feel wonderful today.
I just loved geometry and algebra ... perhaps I could have your books?
I have one very small unused Sudoku book you are welcome to in exchange???
Tree. |
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Last Login: 26 August 2010 14:54
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lol- it does seem freddy has some inkling of what zero is alluding to.
It often is the 'crazy' people who see things that escape other people's attention, they develop an unusual formula, and solve problems in highly irregular ways. I never could figure out why people are penalised for using their own methods for figuring out mathematical puzzles. |
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