Math sucks!

SirGreenThumb

SirGreenThumb

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First, let me say that I completely suck at math. Not basic math, but everything after that. Another big mistake that I did was signing up for an online class for Finite Mathmatics. The teacher sucks and she isn't any help, and not to mention she set up the online class to be hard to understand. The fucking quizzes are not even in order. Oh, and did I mention that within our syllabus she happen to mention that all the work that we do on the quizzes and homework wont have anything to do with the content on the midterm or final. "That makes a whole lot of sense"

I am a Networking Major and none of this mickey mouse bullshit will even matter in the long run for me. Binary is one thing, but I already know binary and hexadecimal. (Here is a fun fact: Learning binary and hex is taught in Cisco.) <<Wait for it..... An actual Networking course. It seems as though every single math course I take in college is meant to just piss you off. The teachers never want to assist you properly, and they never let you use any notes for tests.

Out of every single class that I have had that actually pertains to my degree, they allow you to use your notes, computer, internet and whatever you have available access to do you best. It seems as though my computer teachers seem to understand the fact that in the real world you have access to an infinite amount of resources to get the job done. Why is it that math teachers cant seem to understand this? They even take it to the point of whenever you are about to take a test, they make you sign a piece of paper stating that you are receiving a piece of scrap paper.

Your not even allowed to use your own scrap paper. WTF.
Do I somehow have invisible ink that whenever I get lost on an equation all I have to do is tickle the paper and it gives me the answer. Thanks a lot Ms. Mathematician fuck tard, I found your X and he is diddling the English major in the hallway.

:spew:findx.gifEnd of rant.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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yeah, i got that one right.. i remembered the 3, 4, 5 thingy.. if it wasn't 3 and 4 on the other sides, i'd have been lost.. :D
 
greenswag

greenswag

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I hear you 100%, even though I'm pretty damn good at math. They emphasize you need to memorize all this BS, then you get to the real world and you never use it again. They always seem to hate when you ask "when will I ever use this?" and its easily the most common question they're ever asked. Good example: I remember the teachers giving all these equations to find the length and angles, then you ask when you need it and they reply saying for building houses and such. I was just recently helping my uncle completely re-do his shed, removing all the old wood side by side and cutting new pieces to replace it. All we did was measure the damn wood and use the blue string snap, then we cut it, and put it up, no equations needed. I can imagine it would help on a much larger scale but you get my point that a ton of it you'll never touch again.
 
SirGreenThumb

SirGreenThumb

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greenswag said:
I hear you 100%, even though I'm pretty damn good at math. They emphasize you need to memorize all this BS, then you get to the real world and you never use it again. They always seem to hate when you ask "when will I ever use this?" and its easily the most common question they're ever asked. Good example: I remember the teachers giving all these equations to find the length and angles, then you ask when you need it and they reply saying for building houses and such. I was just recently helping my uncle completely re-do his shed, removing all the old wood side by side and cutting new pieces to replace it. All we did was measure the damn wood and use the blue string snap, then we cut it, and put it up, no equations needed. I can imagine it would help on a much larger scale but you get my point that a ton of it you'll never touch again.
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Funny you tell that story. When I did my first math class in college, which happen to be developmental math. I asked one of the tutors to explain to me when I would ever use this in the real world, and he really tried to ask me, have you ever built anything? I was like yea. He began to tell me a certain situation "I can't remember what" on how you would go about using this "certain" equation to figure out how to make a wooden box or some shit like that. I was like, dude, no. If I am going to make a box a certain size I would write down the measurements mark off a certain amount of feet on the wood, snap a blue line across it and cut. Then I just do the same for all the rest.

Then I proceeded to tell him "If anyone was to go about building a box they way you just described, it would take a week to make a box." I told him you can use simple math in every single situation in life and all this crap you have us doing is pointless. The whole class started laughing and he didn't have shit else to say and walked off.
 
MojoRison

MojoRison

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I once asked my HS math teacher if he could make six 9's = 100...he wasn't able to and called me a jackass then sent me to the principal, where I proceeded to ask him the same question {he couldn't answer either}. I got suspended for reasons I still don't understand.
 
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