Math

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[nickspoon]

Heh.

Maths is an awesome subject indeed, but everything up to and including introductory trigonometry is dull compared to more advanced stuff.

[Segovia]

Those math nerds at your school haven't taken a geophysics course, then, in which most if not all of those functions become very useful.

That said, I don't particularly mind math, but its far from my favorite subject.

We realize that there's some relevancy to it or else we wouldn't be learning it, but after we got introduced to sine, cosine, tangent and their inverses, we basically spent three weeks just doing proofs that [some random string of sines, cosines and tangents] = [some other string of sines, cosines and tangents] without any real examples of what these things would mean. We could have just have easily replaced them with variables A, B, C and X = 1/A, Y = 1/B, Z = 1/C and would have learned the exact same stuff from that portion of our school year

That's a really, really bad way to teach trig. I'm surprised.

This is the best way.

SOH CAH TOA!!!!!!

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[Dr. Sticks]

no johnathan, the problem with that method of learning Trig is that you aren't actually learning any new concepts, nor are you learning any applications to what you are learning.

But that was just the last half of my Trig, we learned real stuff about circles and arcs and all in the first half

[Segovia]

Whatever. Everything's a problem to you.

Anyway this is somewhat relavent to this thread. I noticed that alot of people in my class are either failing Geometry or hate it and other math classes in general. I find this ironic coming from people who's ancestors were experts at this. I think the cross breeding between Mayans and Spainards didn't help much over the years.

[gforce422]

I like math that can't talk. Makes for some good listening.

[Segovia]

I like math that can't talk. Makes for some good listening.

Lol Mute Math!

[klimt]

math is boring outside of its use in physics. though it is always fun to watch farmers with grade 9 educations come up with answers to basic arithmetic questions faster than high school students.

[datherman]

Math is generally one of my strongest subjects. Though that didn't stop me from getting a B in my Calc 2 class, which is known for its insane difficulty.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Complex numbers are a lovely little gem I wished I had learned in like year 11. Rotation by multiplication and fractals <3.

[Caoimhin]

Wow, seems to be alot of math people here doing advanced sruff. Me on the other hand... Well I havn't even memorized my multiplication tables. Math is insanely difficult for me. That being said its my worst and least favorite subject (I'm a Senior and I was having such a hard time with Algebra II that they put me in Math III). But I still admire the people who can do the advanced stuff. Except when they're the jackass more-atheist-or-agnosticer-than though nerd types.

[Tarukai]

The worst math I'm doing right now is percentages of monetary amounts.

Or was. I did Financial Accounting this past semester. Simple math, yes. A lot of numbers to keep track of, yes. Very tedious? yes.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

That's what computers are for.

[Muninn]

SET CALCULATORS ON STUN!



Maths isn't my thing. I got passing grades and was glad to be done with it, move on to better and more interesting things.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

...move on to better and more interesting things.

Better and more interesting? D:?