Oh God, I remember the fear as if it was yesterday...

a51_ufo

mrcow wrote: »

Love all of it.
Algebra, trigonometry, calculus, shape, factors, similtaneous equations, quadratic equatons, pi, imaginary numbers, vectors, fractions, percentages. Love em all!

Ditto

Though I hate ANYTHING to do with languages!

ValHaller

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

So if I walk backwards (negative) in the opposite direction (negative) I will end up going forwards.

John

aliasojo wrote: »

I don't get that at all. :rotfl:

Try it this way 'if I march backwards at 1 step per second (negative), where was I 30 seconds ago (negative)?'

The answer is 30 steps forward (positive) from where you are now

eilidh_s

I wouldn't say I loved maths, but I was quite competent at it until I got to university where I was introduced to the joys of spherical trigonometry, which I don't understand and yet still managed to use almost every day at work. Then there was integrating integrations. Think that was when I could be found rocking back and forth in the corner of the lecture theater and mumbling about how useless my secondary school teachers were by not informing us of these complicated things beforehand!

Janepig

jellyhead wrote: »

okay, who can do my 8 year old's maths homework? Get cards numbered from 0 to 9, and using all ten cards rearrange them to make 5 prime numbers.

ETA: I couldn't! He cheated by using 02 rather than 2.

After seeing this on FB, I asked supposed maths genius, DH, to explain prime numbers to DD in welsh (because she does her maths in welsh and I don't know what the welsh for prime numbers is!) and he said that one was a prime number and two wasn't - cue big argument with me saying "of course two is a prime number", even though I haven't got a clue, and I had to google it in the end to prove him wrong!! This is the man who did maths A level. My poor children are going to be mega dunces. Just as well DD's ambition is to be a hairdresser (and a sports coach in her spare time ) and DS is going to play rugby for the Scarlets.

Jx

gunsandbanjos

Janepig wrote: »

After seeing this on FB, I asked supposed maths genius, DH, to explain prime numbers to DD in welsh (because she does her maths in welsh and I don't know what the welsh for prime numbers is!) and he said that one was a prime number and two wasn't - cue big argument with me saying "of course two is a prime number", even though I haven't got a clue, and I had to google it in the end to prove him wrong!! This is the man who did maths A level. My poor children are going to be mega dunces. Just as well DD's ambition is to be a hairdresser (and a sports coach in her spare time ) and DS is going to play rugby for the Scarlets.

Jx

One isn't a prime, two is the first prime.

Elsewhere

I loved maths - still do. The satisfaction of writing out a geometric proof and putting Q.E.D. at the end - bliss.

Second favourite - Latin - a language with lots of rules!

I hated hockey. What a terrifying sight seeing a group of muscular girls running towards me with wooden clubs in their hands! I used to run up and down trying to look busy while keeping as far away from the ball as possible,

pollypenny

Oh, god! Algebra! I was off sick with pleurisy in the first three weeks of second term at grammar school, missing introduction of algebra.

That was basically the end of me and maths.

Savvy_Sue

I have no idea what you lot are on about, but you might like to know that there's apparently a lot of advanced Maths in the Simpsons ...

dibuzz

My eldest did maths and further maths at A level.
He was scribbling on a piece of paper one night and I asked him what he was doing, he replied "quantum algorithms"
I assumed it was homework but no he was just doing it for fun.

This_Year

There are Maths people and there are people that don't get it.

I'm hopeless with numbers that are written down and can add up the same column of numbers 6 times and get 6 different answers. Occasionally one of those might be right. :rotfl:

But I can add up, subtract, multiply and divide; work out the price per kilo in a supermarket; calculate %ages etc all in my head. And get it right.

But write it down and I'm lost.