greekguy
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blackheart said:What do most adults you know do for a living?
the majority of adults i know work in some sort of business field or are a housewife.
blackheart said:What do most adults you know do for a living?
newfangle said:Because it develops logical and analytical reasoning much better than anything else.
Just because you aren't always computing the tangential velocity of a boson doesn't mean you don't use math. Math is critical in allowing humans to be efficient and capable problem solvers.
I definitely wouldn't consider those things to be "advanced" math. I'm in Algebra II as a freshman this year, and that stuff I learned in seventh and eight grade. So, its not really advanced math, but I am definitely excited to begin Calc in Junior year. I'm interested in becoming a chef, and I love math, and I'm sure that the problem solving skills I'm getting in the subject will be a real help down the line.greekguy said:Quadriatic equations, radicals, and triangle similiarty theorems are some examples of what i consider "advanced" math. i don't see myself using any of those things when i'm older.
Perhaps, instead of whining about needing to study for your math classes, you should be thinking about why you don't study for any of your other classes. Trust me, learn how to study properly now, you'll need it in college, unless you take a communications major, but then you don't want to be the laughing stock of everyone who took a real major, do you?greekguy said:the stuff i'm learning right now, isn't really "hard", its just frustrating to me since i have to sit down and study a lot to do good. i don't like to do this especially, when i study very little for my other classes.
On the other hand, I did a maths degree but I can never remember that formula ... I just complete the square everytime insteadAnsar_the_King said:How is that so hard to remember? I learned it last year and I still know it...![]()
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When I took my first linear algebra course in university we were awarded bonus points if we correctly wrote down the cubic formula. Many more bonus points were awarded for the quartic formula. Needless to say, it wasn't the best method for encourging us to learn linear algebra.