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Originally Posted by Guinness
There's a point to it...but only for certain professions and skills..it's highly unlikely that you or me will send a rover to Mars, place an order for the number of bricks you need to build the next Empire State Building or figure out how wide you need to build a septic tank with a length of 2m a depth of 4m to cope with a volume of 30m cubed...
However, if you ain't introduced to it at some point, how will you ever know if you want to send a rover to mars etc..etc..etc..
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Lol I hear you. It was kind of my point at the beginning of this thread-what they teach these things for and why you have to be so good at them-I think it's over-rated as a subject given its content.
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
But you really didn't need algebra to work it out...you are just showing that you could use algebra if you wanted.
I can't do algebra, but I can work out simple things like that.
Sugarmouse...I was rubbish at Maths and got shouted at a lot because I didn't get it....it made me scared of it too.
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I'm glad it's not just me
And yes, for everyday situations where Maths is helpful, I'm okay now. But I think I would have been a lot better a lot earlier in life, if I wasn't made to feel the way I did about it from day one.
I still find myself questioning if I have worked something out correctly-doing the sum again because 'Well It's me!I can't have got it right! ' lol