A Test... Really?

[Tsuyu]

Re: A Test... Really?

I've used every type of mathematics that I know of in reverse engineering, hacking and modding. A lot of which I had to teach myself using the maths I learned at school as a foundation. I imagine that I will use maths in any field that I will ever be interested in getting into.

Whilst that is true, most of us were still suckered into crunching tons of numbers at school for nothing...

When I do programming it involves a lot of math, true. But I don't do any of it. All I have to keep track of is that A should equal B+C and then I let the computer work it out.

 

[Tsuyu]

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Of course, once you know a math concept in its entirety, you shouldn't be made to work it out. If you know the equations, if you know how to solve the problems, then you can write up an app to do it for you. But let's say you lacked the knowledge that B+C should give you A, you couldn't do it with a calculator of the highest caliber because you wouldn't know what to punch in, let alone write a program for it.

Agreed. However, I don't how you were taught math, but the way the taught me was basically learning a way to solve a problem, then being handed a paper with a thousand different variations of it and solve them ad nausem.

It traumatized me deeply at a such a young and tender age that I developed a deep-seated hate and loathing for math.

What I'm saying is basically they should focus a lot less on problem crunching and more on practical application of math. As long as you know the "forumla"(due to lack of better word in English) to solve a math problem, the modern world does the calculating for you.

 

[HobbeBrain]

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Agreed. However, I don't how you were taught math, but the way the taught me was basically learning a way to solve a problem, then being handed a paper with a thousand different variations of it and solve them ad nausem.

It traumatized me deeply at a such a young and tender age that I developed a deep-seated hate and loathing for math.

What I'm saying is basically they should focus a lot less on problem crunching and more on practical application of math. As long as you know the "forumla"(due to lack of better word in English) to solve a math problem, the modern world does the calculating for you.

We could be the math-hater buddies!!

 

[Skotekal]

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Agreed. However, I don't how you were taught math, but the way the taught me was basically learning a way to solve a problem, then being handed a paper with a thousand different variations of it and solve them ad nausem.

It traumatized me deeply at a such a young and tender age that I developed a deep-seated hate and loathing for math.

What I'm saying is basically they should focus a lot less on problem crunching and more on practical application of math. As long as you know the "forumla"(due to lack of better word in English) to solve a math problem, the modern world does the calculating for you.

The same was done here. I hate it. I will never understand math. I got into a high level math course from score in math in grade 9, and I BOMBED it. Well, probably because I gave up about half way through and stopped trying. Got an average math course last semester and just BARELY passed with a 52.

Sometimes I wish I could understand math, but know I never will.

 

[Firis]

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I just can't wrap my self around it, I get the equation but not how to do it. I swear some of the questions are just as awkward as this:

"If A x B = C and A = 10 and B = 7 then what is C?"
"C = 70?"
"No C = 52"

 

[HobbeBrain]

Re: A Test... Really?

Like I said, the teacher was really cool. Hated my guts because his system allowed me to slack off the entire year, he despised me with a fiery passion, but he's still cool because he didn't try to manipulate the grading system such that I would have actually had to do something for a grade.

Lucky bastard...

 

[HobbeBrain]

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Pardon? I still took the tests and quizzes as benchmarks, and then I had to take the finals for the grades. It's not like I wasn't doing anything the entire year. I just don't like doing remedial work, whereas you just don't like doing anything math-related. There's a big difference. You wouldn't want to walk in my footsteps because you would bomb the final and probably end up making an even lower grade than whatever you're making now.

That and my footsteps are huge.

Well then, you're lucky in that you've actually got a grasp of maths. I have the sort of brain that is wired up so I'm more creative, so maths doesn't make sense to me at all.