I love math. I was one of the people who found BC Calculus to be fun. :D
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I love math. I was one of the people who found BC Calculus to be fun. :D
High school math was fun, University math is.. hard.
Math is so much fun when you can do it. When you can't it totally sucks.
Trigonometry can die in a giant fire.
I like to think that I'd have been quite good at maths if I'd actually paid any attention. As it stands I spent all of my high school maths classes doing bugger all and dropped it at my earliest convenience.
Hmm, Id say Physics is the key. But Physics has so much maths in it anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Maxx Power
Im a Physicist at heart I think. Ya know, some time soon my occupation could be trying (and failing :p) to find the Grand Unified Theory.
So, in summary,
Physics > Maths
But both subjects are so darn powerful. We wouldnt be having this conversation without them. Modern society is founded on Science and mathematics.
EDIT: My bro does maths at Uni. Confirmed me not wanting to do it. Looks way to abstract and weird for my liking.
First, why add the 's' at the end of the word? Shouldn't a subject in general be singular?
As for the subject, I hate math in any form. I'm horrible with numbers. I'm much, much better at working with words.
Mathematics - Maths.Quote:
Originally Posted by Momiji
It's just easier to say!
I pretty much agree with you, though, I hate all things numerical as I can't seem to be able to remember it. I love English, and all subjects English-based. I'm dropping Maths and every single Science when I go to college, most of my subjects that I've chosen are all essay-based, so I'm not expecting much of a life.
I was best at trigonometry. I used to sit at the front of class (because I couldn't see the board otherwise) with Daren, David and Jim. Daren and I were best at trig, and David and Jim, who sat behind us, were the algebra masters.
I wound up with a C, which was ok, because I couldn't get higher than a B, because I took the Intermediate paper. The teacher wanted to put me in the Higher tier but the class was full. :(
Good job he didn't; I would have failed spectacularly. :D
Math, chemistry and physics have never ever been my strong points. If I concentrate I guess I'm average at them, but languages, art/culture classes, history and stuff like that have always been what was good at in school.
I used to really enjoy maths but while in high school, I started to lose interest and become more interested in the likes of English and History instead. I like the feeling that maths gives you when you have a big problem with multiple parts to it and you do them in the right order and at the end - with a complete solution - you can look back at all your working with a sense of satisfaction. It's definitely a subject that can make you feel good about yourself if you're good at it.
I was good but not great. I sat my GCSE Maths early and got a B in it. Annoyingly, everyone in the class did pretty badly in the mock exam, whereas I did quite well and came out with one of two A grades. Annoyed that I missed the A grade by literally one or two marks in November of year 11, I resat the exam in June with minimal revision and came out with A. Madness. I never took anything terribly advanced post-GCSE (IB Math Studies is a complete joke and all that my college offered short of the buggeringly hard Higher Level Maths) and so my knowledge of it has dwindled.
I always hated SOHCAHTOA. Not because I hated Trig, just because my year 9 maths teacher had a better (more sadistic) way of teaching it:
The Cat Sat
On An Oven
And Howled Horribly
Different types of math, grasshopper. When's the last time you heard anyone tell you that Calculus is the same as Algebra?Quote:
Originally Posted by Momiji
Math is the win. It's like it dictates the laws of the universe, makes no sense, yet is perfect is every way. There's this disturbing simplicity in knowing that even though most of it is relatively simple, not everyone can do it. Calculus changes the way you think, and even then, few people appreciate it. Of course, once you get to higher levels of math, it stops making sense and only becomes more awesome.
Ohh, and to anyone who says you can't use math in everyday life, try being an engineer or an economics major. There is a reason you need us.
Ohh, btw, I'm really good at it, if you haven't guessed. Integrals win the hardest.
Ive been thinking lately about Maths and Science and their importance. It seems to me, using the very tenuous evidence that I have, that the popularity of these important subjects is declining in the UK. Does anyone else think that is happening?
If so, there's going to be a greater demand for scientists because they are so important. If you look at the advances in modern society, most of them are scientific. It may seem arrogant and wrong in me saying this, but I'll put it out there anyway...
Science as a whole is the most important subject for developing a country. People educated in scientific subjects are more useful than people educated in history, arts or literature. The people who are driving countries forward are educated in maths or the sciences, not arts.
There. I said it.
In high school I took Calc AB, Calc AB, Multi-Variable Calc, and Ordinary Differential Equations. I only needed Calc AB for college, which means I have (had) a bunch of useless math knowledge.
Some of it could be interesting, but absolutely useless for a student of the arts, and particularly useless for someone who never took physics and had no desire to ever take physics (even though I ended up taking Physics for BA students this semester, which had no math). I'm now two full years out of taking any math class, and I can happily say that I remember next to none of it. The only things I remember are differentiating basic functions and integrating basic functions. Considering there was a time where I could do a dilac delta function, that's a looooot of stuff that I don't remember, at all.
They aren't the same. However, they all fall under the general subject of math.Quote:
Originally Posted by TavrobelDifferent types of math, grasshopper. When's the last time you heard anyone tell you that Calculus is the same as Algebra?Quote:
Originally Posted by Momiji
For example, Chemistry and Biology are both types of science, but you don't call the subject they fall under 'sciences', do you?
^But you do call them 'The Sciences'.
Thats why I call Algebra and Calculus 'The Maths'