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I've forgotten more math than you'll ever learn, sonny jim.  Wacko

Also, this thread is at the end of the first page (maybe onto the second by now), this forum is full of people of all nations, and there hasn't been an argument yet over whether "math" or "maths" is correct?
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Chemistry is an objectively bad (pseudo) subject.

Dynamics/mechanics are also pretty pain-inducing

Originally posted by PyramidMeetsTheEye PyramidMeetsTheEye wrote:

I so freaking hate math,useless stuff why the f**k will i need an freaking linear function?



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math by far,  everything else I enjoyed or could do well if I applied myself
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I'd say probably chemistry. All the labs are pretty tough and I just can't get the hang of balancing those equations! I actually really like math and it is essential and important, as is science.
My best subjects would have to be Music and geography.


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I probably would have liked math and math-related subjects more if I was taught in some way what exactly I was doing. 

I don't know what utility a function or an equation is supposed to have in the real world. I'm not sure I ever knew. I was just plugging in numbers and solving for x for 10+ years. Of course most people hate math; most people don't look at numbers and just "get" them. And when educators give you plug and chug bullsh*t for all your education without attaching meaning to it, you should be able to understand the malaise and resentment.

I did worst at Chemistry and Algebra II (C and B respectively) in high school. They're just hard concepts to grasp unless you care about them, and with all the other crap we're learning and extracurricular activities and stuff, they go to the bottom of the Care pile.
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I understand the disdain for math education, but  I don't understand the disdain for the subject itself. I especially don't understand why people feel no shame bragging about their complete ineptitude with mathematics.
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I'm actually kind of embarrassed. It's not like I'm proud of it. Calculus would probably be really helpful to me with acoustics and all that, but plenty of people have been successful in music and music technology without kicking ass in calculus anyway. Besides if I stared wide-eyed and stunned at algebra, there's hardly a point with calculus now.
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Probably classes that require large amounts of writing and/or work, because I'm lazy. LOL I've enjoyed my math and chemistry classes so far, but I've not gone very far in either yet.
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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I was in a German School (again, not only for Germans) in Quito and I had to take chemistry in German. That was a total nightmare. 

WHAT?
Oh sorry Caio I guess that wasn't clear. Let's retry. 

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I was in a German School (again, not only for Germans) in Quito and I had to take chemistry in German. That was a total nightmare. 

Yes. It was a nightmare. Even taking the damn class in my language would've been horrible. 

I have to add that I used to enjoy math up to the point where I stopped paying attention and I started to suck (which didn't change until almost at my current age). I also have to say that everything I saw here in college math I had already seen in high school in my country. 

Something has to be said about schools all around the world not making students actually care about what they are learning or think what they are learning is of any value. I have always been thirsty for knowledge and in some ways my school helped but in some ways it didn't.
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Originally posted by PyramidMeetsTheEye PyramidMeetsTheEye wrote:

I so freaking hate math,useless stuff why the f**k will i need an freaking linear function?
so what are your most hated subjects in school

That sucks. I used to be quite a nerd in such matter. Now that I got lazier, ...

On the topic: if we are talking high school, ... AP English 5-6. God, there were so many obligations to reading, writing, and analyzing, YH!

Here, in the university, ... CS302. Man, this s$%t was painstaking. My partner was doing all the work writing the code, and I couldn't even do very well in theory.
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I was never too fond of biology.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I understand the disdain for math education, but  I don't understand the disdain for the subject itself. I especially don't understand why people feel no shame bragging about their complete ineptitude with mathematics.
hey I wasn't happy about it,  it was hell getting through the advanced stuff--  no bragging here, my friend
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Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

I was never too fond of biology.


I was so not fond of biology that I never once have studied it in any capacity
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Algebra.
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Social studies, Religion, Computer knowledge...
On the other hand, other than music and art, i also love math, which alot of people seems to dislike thouroughly Tongue
 
To me, really understanding math is like really understanding a foreign language that not many people know. Being good at maths make me feel like i'm mastering one of those languages, and it makes me feel slightly better than most people Tongue Maths may not be fun to everyone, but trust me, the deeper you get into it, the more fun it gets!
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2012 at 07:34
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I was in a German School (again, not only for Germans) in Quito and I had to take chemistry in German. That was a total nightmare. 

WHAT?
Oh sorry Caio I guess that wasn't clear. Let's retry. 

No, that was clear enough, it's just that this is mind-blowing (teaching a subject in another language). 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I understand the disdain for math education, but  I don't understand the disdain for the subject itself. I especially don't understand why people feel no shame bragging about their complete ineptitude with mathematics.
Same here. I'm not especially great at maths, though it was probably my best subject at school (I hated school so much that all subjects qualify as my worse subject - I left school at 16, my 6 years further education came through the laborious process of day-release and evening classes before I could go to University full-time), I only have a passing interest in theoretical maths but when it came to applied maths and applied physics everything just clicks into place and the world just seems to make more sense. I can't really imagine trying to understand the world without knowing mathematics, which is probably why I find philosophy such a tedious yawn (and pointless endeavour) ... fortunately that was one subject never covered while I was in school so while it would be my absolute worse subject, it simply isn't.

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German and geography were subjects I was quite indifferent to. On the other hand, I liked maths and chemistry.
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Back in highschool I hated Latin, but mostly because of the teacher. And it was pointless too (we were a science class and we weren't "learning" Latin as a part of a classical education, but because of the taxonomies in biology being in Latin - most stupid rationale ever).

Also, the math that was stuffed into us was excessively advanced. I have no problems with maths in itself though. But we really didn't need Analysis, Trigonometry and so forth.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 18 2012 at 18:20
^ but that's not too advanced. Tongue

Doing Romanian instead (teacher being the same and gymnasium "finals" - Capacitate - given the priority) easily made Latin the one subject we wasted our chance with. 
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