Can you make Algebra awesome?
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Either you like math and algebra is already really neat, or else it will never be.
Which just leaves the question, why are you taking algebra at all? If you don't like it, quit taking it. Unless you are being forced to take it to achieve some other life goal, in which case, just accept that it will be boring, like exercise or eating your vegetables, and survive it as a necessary evil borne to get what you really want.
I know I'm stating a radical opinion, but no one needs anything more than simple arithmetic to get by in this modern world. As someone who loves math, I would like nothing better than to tell you that were not true. But the bottom line is that I never use even basic algebra unless I'm going out of my way to tackle a question/problem that the ordinary person doesn't give a flying fuck about.
Being able to quickly divide/multiply numbers in your head so you can figure out your gas mileage or a unit price at the grocery store is about as tough as it gets out here. You might even have to stretch into remedial geometry if you wanted to build a deck or something. But you will never need to solve the roots of a quadratic in real life, unless you pick a job based on math, which would be a really stupid thing to do if you don't already enjoy it.
Which just leaves the question, why are you taking algebra at all? If you don't like it, quit taking it. Unless you are being forced to take it to achieve some other life goal, in which case, just accept that it will be boring, like exercise or eating your vegetables, and survive it as a necessary evil borne to get what you really want.
I know I'm stating a radical opinion, but no one needs anything more than simple arithmetic to get by in this modern world. As someone who loves math, I would like nothing better than to tell you that were not true. But the bottom line is that I never use even basic algebra unless I'm going out of my way to tackle a question/problem that the ordinary person doesn't give a flying fuck about.
Being able to quickly divide/multiply numbers in your head so you can figure out your gas mileage or a unit price at the grocery store is about as tough as it gets out here. You might even have to stretch into remedial geometry if you wanted to build a deck or something. But you will never need to solve the roots of a quadratic in real life, unless you pick a job based on math, which would be a really stupid thing to do if you don't already enjoy it.
I looooooooove Physics and since Maths is a major part of Physics then I like maths to but I prefer Physics because it involves how things work and I love finding out how things work.
So to me maths is already awesome.
So to me maths is already awesome.
you just made sence of all the world, and for that I give you the cookie of awsome ness.Trivun said:
You see it, oh thats right, the cookie is so awsome that no one can see it.
You guys do know that Gordon Freeman would just beat mathmatics into his subjects with a crowbar right.IxionIndustries said:
This isn't really algebra, but do what my old maths teacher did in about 9th year when we were doing geometry:
(draws a circle on the board)
"this is a triangle. Henry, what is this?"
"uh, a circle?"
"NO!" (bangs plastic sword on table)
nuff said
(draws a circle on the board)
"this is a triangle. Henry, what is this?"
"uh, a circle?"
"NO!" (bangs plastic sword on table)
nuff said
I can't make it awesome. Not without an enourmous amount of explosives (Or alternatively a gravity gun infused with dark energy).