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Remember when teachers told u math was important

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And write in cursive and shit? Any time I have to do a math problem I can just flip up the calculator on my Apple iPhone 6 and I dare u to try and write something in cursive

It would've made school way more fun if teachers would have been real about what stuff was good to know. Like hb having a class about filing taxes or shopping for credit cards
 
Basic arithmetic isn't that important, but knowing how to do more complicated maths is really useful.

Ryaaan14 said:
But they can just teach math in college once u have a major that involves advanced math??
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No because it takes years to teach maths up to that level. You can rush it but it's not advisable.
 
I remember when I was taught to write out words completely and not make "you" into "u".

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Yeah, no calculators for calculus class was a pain in the ass.
 
I don't think somebody who uses an "and" to start a sentence should be complaining about anything teachers say because they clearly didn't pay attention during school.
 
If only you could do that with some of them math they have you do in college. Especially as you get higher into math science or engineering. Math is really important but it is the idea of how to solve it that becomes essential.

Edit: The most interesting thing is that as you go higher you are allowed to use all the things that were prohibited before in previous classes. I always found that funny.
 
Geo said:
Agree. I absolutely hate when classes would do the "no computers, no books, no calculators, no etc." bullshit. That's not how the real world works at all. I sometimes have classes still do this shit. Why is it required that I force a bunch of information in my brain just to spit it all out during an hour or two-hour exam just to forget it the second it's over? So worthless.
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Closed book tests are the worst for two reasons:

1) Placing such a large burden on memorisation restricts the complexity of the questions that you can set. Open book tests let you lean much more heavily on the problem solving aspect which is more useful and beneficial.
2) In most fields if you have access to a book and a calculator and you're not sure on something but decide to just wing it without double checking it's not only incredibly reckless but in some cases against the professional code of ethics.
 
Most people could probably get by with simple arithmetic, but everyone should probably know algebra and it makes life far easier. Like even being able to figure out how much a percent discount is worth is useful to know. Why would you want to go through life not understanding those concepts you'd probably always feel like you're being cheated by any financial transaction.
 
part of the fun of math for me was seeing how complicated some equations and problems can get. I mean you could plug the quadratic equation into a calculator, but its much more satisfying going through the problem solving method. For reference I've never taken a math class higher than trig, where I'm sure calculators are necessary.
 
Math is the basis for explaining everything in our known universe.

Cursive is a fancy way to make your writing look nice.

Not the best comparison.
 
Using a calculator for basic math stunts the procedural understanding required for higher level math.
 
You never used a debit/credit card that requires signing?
Tried to sign legal documents that say to sign?
Written your name on a birthday card?

Cursive is not only used in legal documents (print, and sign both), but it looks nice for every day stuff.

And Algebra is handy since you're literally just learning how to write head-math.

Not sure on Calculus coming in handy for every day life, I'll give you that.
 
Yup. My math Professor in college is skipping a lot of our text book because be says we're never going to use that stuff past this class. He also lets us use our notes and book because he mentioned in the real world people aren't always recalling everything from memory.

Don't even get me started about how "important" cursive was stressed by my parents only to later find out there only time its used is for your signature and everybody scribbles it.
 
I believed that dumb story that maths isn't useful in the real world and as teachers were bad at teaching it (work sheets etc) I dropped it.

If I could go back I'd tell myself to not be such an idiot.
I don't have a problem with maths at the moment but I do really regret missing out on what I should have a much better grasp on (rearranging equations etc)

I'm currently back in uni studying finance and accounting and will do a master's in analytics when that's finished.
Maths and statistics are useful and will be used in more jobs rather than less in the future. You won't use a calculator but need to understand how everything works to plug it into excel.
 
Sub Boss said:
I was expecting a study saying math is less important than other courses at school, you know, science shit.
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Hey if you're talking about useless classes then classes like Art, Music, History, and Spanish(Foreign language classes) are on top of that list.
Who needs to know about the past?! I don't care about that man, that stuff is useless. Oh and I don't need to learn Spanish, I live in America. I only need American.
 
Tainted Giraffe said:
Yup. My math Professor in college is skipping a lot of our text book because be says we're never going to use that stuff past this class. He also lets us use our notes and book because he mentioned in the real world people aren't always recalling everything from memory.
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That's a really cool professor
 
I don't think I even remember how to write in cursive, honestly. The only time I ever used it was in primary school, way back in the '80s.

Talamius said:
Does anyone use cursive outside of signatures?
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My signature started out as cursive, but turned into a complete bastardization of cursive by the time I was 18.
 
Fucking hell.... C'mon, maths are important. They make this world go round.
A calculator is useless if you don't know the basics.
I hate maths myself, but that's no reason for me to shit talk about it.
 
As a programmer, I disagree. Math is very important. Sure, I whip out the calculator to solve simple arithmetic all the time, but knowing the principles and larger formulae is invaluable.
 
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