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    because calculus lets you calculate crazy volumes without a measuring cup, determine how fast you're moving at this exact instant, and what your magnetic field strength is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    your magnetic field strength is.
    Next thing you'll be saying we can use it to calculate our power level without scouters
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    The thing in trig where you get things like

    2sin + cos = cot
    tan ............sin

    and have to simplify them. I always forget what it's called.

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    Circle Theorems always got me, it's not that they're hard - it's just a matter of remembering the rules and applying it to the question, which is alot harder than it sounds

    I never got all the angles crap, with the tangent and such, went straighttt over my head. Oh man and Surds too, I hated them soo much xD

    I hated Maths, and as I've not applied for it at college, I never have to do it again!

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    Everything.

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    Seriously, so I took a CLEP test today to see if I could get out of taking a college math class. It was standard level Algebra and I failed the hell out of it. The f(x) nonsense and some other bull crap destroyed me.


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    I hate graphs. I hate everything about them. I hate graphing ANYTHING in math. Give me equations and shizz. I can't stand drawing dots on a grid and connecting them; I find it useless and much prefer the bar graph, but I don't think there's enough room in mathematics for that

    Also, another thing that I'm totally bad at is basic stuff that you learn in grade school. I never paid attention so when I got to 10th grade I was in Algebra 2 and had to multiply fractions. I mean, what the smurf, I can do everything but basic math. Don't even get me started on long division, but I'm getting better. I just hate the remainders. The thing is, I used to remember doing this stuff and it comes back to me but I hate how I forgot it. I guess that applies to grammar as well. I used to read books under my desk while the teacher was teaching and still got Straight A's. The only bad thing about this was that I forgot everything almost immediately.

    This one I have no clue about: Permutations and Combinations. I have NO IDEA how that <img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /> works at all. It's all like 3! and stuff. ;_; There was some method of doing it but I was absent so I tried to learn on my own and I failed.

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    Proofs. No one ever smurfing teaches me how to proove anything.


    Oh, and I also hate that crap to do with Variance, standard deviation, root mean squared deviation etc. I dont think its hard - I just fall asleep.

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    I haven't even started Algebra 1 yet, but I always find myself getting many problems wrong because I'm so careless, I always forget simple steps in math.

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    This might be a bit off-topic, but I wonder how much mathematical teaching differs from country to country.

    I don't actually remember having many issues with maths. One of my majors is Economics, and the other is Finance, so there is a lot of mathematics involved. I dislike having to do Maths where there are more constants represented by letters than numbers!

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