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Post by BoilerRoomBrawler on Jan 14, 2013 9:07:51 GMT -5
Here's one teachers always told us when I was in school: Alegbra is useful. Since those days I went onto earning an Associates and Bachelors + had jobs ranging from working retail to working in law offices to insurance jobs. Not one job I've ever had used this crap. The last Algebra class I had to take was College Algebra and when we used to ask the professor what the hell we needed this crap for...she couldn't give one good answer. Whoever dreamed up this crap should rot in hell for all eternity. Payback for all the aggravation, expense, and B.S. lies this one subject has caused people over the dailyyears. This is the biggest lie a teacher can tell their students. It's bad when they can't even give a good example of why you need it...and they do this for a living. You never deal in variables in your daily life? You've gone through life never needing to express a number of things as "x" or a variant thereof in order to calculate a hypothetical scenario? Really?
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 14, 2013 11:01:59 GMT -5
Here's one teachers always told us when I was in school: Alegbra is useful. Since those days I went onto earning an Associates and Bachelors + had jobs ranging from working retail to working in law offices to insurance jobs. Not one job I've ever had used this crap. The last Algebra class I had to take was College Algebra and when we used to ask the professor what the hell we needed this crap for...she couldn't give one good answer. Whoever dreamed up this crap should rot in hell for all eternity. Payback for all the aggravation, expense, and B.S. lies this one subject has caused people over the dailyyears. This is the biggest lie a teacher can tell their students. It's bad when they can't even give a good example of why you need it...and they do this for a living. You never deal in variables in your daily life? You've gone through life never needing to express a number of things as "x" or a variant thereof in order to calculate a hypothetical scenario? Really? I think it's more accurate to say most people don't use COMPLEX algebra in their daily lives. but people use basic algebra all the time, probably without even realizing it.
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