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nothing much. cats, primarily
What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, who don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?
With that said, I’ll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x – 3 = 19 and knowing x = 22 can be useful. I’ll even say knowing x = 7 and y = 8 in a problem like 9x – 6y = 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x – 3)(x – 3i)??
And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can’t become a psychologist, a future lawyer can’t become a lawyer, and I can’t become a journalist unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.
Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don’t take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn’t need to know that The Phantom of the Opera was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. Get my point?
The board of education should sit down with universities and high schools alike and create options for students. Let us take business classes that substitute all the same credits as algebra. I guarantee a semester of learning how to start a small business would benefit people much more than knowing: ax^2 + bx + c = 0
"Chris Colfer, Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal (x)
I’m an engineer(ing student) and I approve this message.
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THIS MAKES ME ANGRY
It’s the slope of the triangles. The turquoise triangle has a height of 2 and a length of 5, so it contains (2*5)/2 = 10 squares, and its slope is 2/5. The red triangle has a height of 3 and a length of 8, so it contains (3*8)/2 = 12 squares, and its slope is 3/8.
Because the slopes are not parallel, this is not a triangle but a quadrangle. The “hypotenuse” of A actually contains a slight reflex angle where the red triangle meets the turquoise, bending into the triangle. The “hypotenuse” of B contains a slight obtuse angle where the turquoise meets the red, bending out of the triangle. The difference in area between the concave triangle and the convex triangle is equal to one square unit - the area “missing” from B.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Calculus
Harry potter and the Prisoner of Algebra
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Theorem
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Analysis
Harry Potter and the Order of Operations
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Statistician
Harry Potter and the Deathly Algorithms
OH MY FUCKING GOD
AND THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS
I can’t even
omfg i am so done
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Pray thee tell, how does one learn to peel an orange with such precision?
I don’t know if it’s meant to be like this, but it looks like “integral of zero equals zero”
UPDATE: Pretty sure it is meant to be like that (looked at the tags on the source). Wow I am nerdy and also slow and also procrastinating.
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