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Post by Mr. Feeny on Sept 2, 2023 19:06:05 GMT -5
I didn't love or hate it, but I didn't need most of it after school.
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Post by Leseratte123 on Sept 2, 2023 19:06:26 GMT -5
With calculators being everywhere, I haven't had the chance to try to do any in my head.
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Post by Mr. Feeny on Sept 2, 2023 19:06:36 GMT -5
^Can you do basic math in your head?
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Post by Leseratte123 on Sept 2, 2023 19:06:55 GMT -5
I don't try. I do tip calculations and shopping list stuff on the calculator.
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Post by Frosty on Sept 2, 2023 20:23:43 GMT -5
I was pretty good at math in school and never hated it, but I wasn't a good student. I didn't give an F because of my teachers.
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Post by Mister Big on Sept 3, 2023 17:44:24 GMT -5
I didn't take more than was required to graduate.
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Post by Fatal Rewind on Sept 3, 2023 20:08:19 GMT -5
^Yeah, same here! Two years of math at my high school and that was it. Did we use algebra, geomoetry, calculus, and others ever again? Hell no! The only class I ever flunked in high school was geometry. That made no sense to me whatsoever. |
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Post by tea4me on Sept 5, 2023 11:12:13 GMT -5
I hated math. HATED it. My dad was a math major. I did NOT inherit the math gene - my sister got that one. I never understood the equations, and when I had to do math problems on paper, I'd jam my pencil down so hard that it would break.
Later in life, when I went back to college to get my B.S. in Technical Communication, the last class (that I put off to the end) that I had to take was math. I hated it so much that I freaking cried a lot! I about asked for reduced hours at work because the class was so dang hard for me. However, my kid came to my rescue (he's a math whiz) by explaining PEMDAS. Um, hello, why did no one teach me that when I was in school? It would have saved me so much stress. PEMDAS is the order you do problems in: parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. "Given two or more operations in a single expression, the order of the letters in PEMDAS tells you what to calculate first, second, third and so on, until the calculation is complete." (courtesy of Study.com)
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