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I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! I LOVE MULTIPLYING, DIVIDING, AND THAT JAZZ!!!! I'm serious. Math is like my favorite class and I can't get enough of it. We just started trig and I'm already hooked. I already finished all of tomarrows work for geometry! I haven't been this excited since I learned how to do basic algebra! My sig from a few months back said it all. So, is there any fellow math geeks here? How do you feel about math?

My degree is a dual major in computer science and mathematics, so I guess it's a good thing that I love math.

I'm good at math, but I never really enjoyed it that much.

Trigonometry becomes a list of meaningless, abstract functions pretty fast when you're learning it in your precalc/trig class (meaning not the introductory stuff you get in geometry).

And this was the consensus among all the math nerds at my school

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.

Math is OK, but I sucked pretty hard at it in school...and I still suck at it (calculators ftw). So I would disagree...wasn't my least favourite subject, but it was near the bottom.

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

SOH CAH TOA!!!!!!!!!!

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.

well we did spend time learning about what the sine and cosine of an arc really meant, and other stuff that wasn't abstract, but for the last three weeks I'm pretty sure that only three or four kids in our class had any clue what we were even doing.

I have number dyslexia so math makes me want to stab people.

I have sociopathy so stabbing people makes me want to do math.

Trigonometry becomes a list of meaningless, abstract functions pretty fast when you're learning it in your precalc/trig class (meaning not the introductory stuff you get in geometry).

And this was the consensus among all the math nerds at my school

Trust me, It's useful. I've used it a few times to calculate where things will land. (Film seems to involve a lot more flying things than one would expect)

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Trigonometry is insanely useful to the point of being necessary in many, MANY fields. However, when you're first learning trig, there's no reason you should have to memorize a bunch of proofs. That kind of stuff will come naturally, and make sense, if you pursue mathematics at the college level... learning it so early is just weird.

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