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Originally Posted by JCB
I can understand your fear of Maths . It's very much a black and white thing . The answer to a calculation is either right or wrong , and this transfers into all branches of Maths .
In English , however , it is not so black and white . There are shades of grey . If you write a poem there is no right or wrong marking at the end of it as there is in Maths .
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Originally Posted by gpick24
Which is why I hated English so much, you write an essay or poem and you get a crap mark, someone sat next to you gets a good mark and there`s no definite answer as to why.
Just there is better.
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True! I'll never be good at it but I'm not scared of numbers now. I like to think I make up for it with other things lol
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Originally Posted by jaysay
your flogging a dead horse mate, I've never used algebra since the day I left school no matter how you try to dress it up, plus, minus, multiplication and division has always been find by me, why try and complicated a simple exercise
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Originally Posted by gpick24
The point I was making, you use it without realising you are using it.
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I know what's meant here I think-if I can see Algebra as one way of using calculations, and how this can be related to the important times in life where Maths is needed
However I still do not see the point in it. When I did Maths at GCSE we'd be given a scenario such as the one you use as an example (apart from a shop and sweets,maybe, rather than a pub and pints
) and I wasn't so phased by those. Why there's a need to make things more complicated by adding letters is nonsensical to me!
I love Pendle. When you take this road trip for the real ales, you're putting me in the boot.
