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JasonGT
Exactly! I know I don't want to be a historian so why do I have to still take history classes? I just Wish teachers had actual expansion for why we learn what we do. My chemistry teacher is the only one who does this! She tells us a big part of it is just learning to think, which is valuable, but she tells us ways which we can use it in our own lives or in our future jobs. Explanation of the reasoning behind classes should be mandatory. It would certainly help motivate me to learn it if I was taught what to use it for.
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What has been really pissing me off lately is some of the equations we need to learn in Algebra II. Honestly, I love math. It's just that some of the equations and formulas we need to memorize make me wonder if they will ever serve a purpose later on in life. I'm not talking about the basic formulas, I'm talking about the more complex ones.
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JasonGT
I think it's more about learning how to use different functions of math (that is provably the wrong word, but an example would be like dividing exponents, or using logarithms) in conjunction with one another. That's just my take though.
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We spent an entire chapter learning about "i" which is an imaginary number. Most. Pointless. Crap. Ever.
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JasonGT
Oh ya I remember that. And magically, if you square it's somehow negative 1 right? Ya, that will be useful.
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Jahgee1124
No but when are we going to use it?
Also, if you think about it that's really dumb because forever we have been taught that only positive numbers have square roots. But then we make up some letter numbers and make them whatever we want.
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Whenever you have a negative square root, you can take an i out of it and then work with that positive radical. Also, before 3rd grade we were taught that there was nothing below 0, but negatives are used.
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It's a hard concept when you apply it to other equations and systems. Especially when factoring with i it can become annoying. By the way I'm in an honors class.
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- Crash852
Depending on what you want to do in live, you could end up using it a lot.
You probably won't encounter it in your daily life, but it is still worthwhile to know that it exists.
Oh the irony.
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That's what I'm taking about. The difficulty doesn't even matter as I have already completed this chapter. We were talking about if it would ever benefit us in the future. Therefore difficulty is irrelevant.
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Going to CU Boulder for Business. Rather have a career and keep cars as my hobby than do oil changes and other various maintenance that doesn't enthuse me,
Despite what you may think now, i is a pretty useful concept.
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jasongt
+1
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Maybe if you had a life you wouldn't care what someone from the other side of the globe said.
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School logic: 30 degrees outside: Turn air-conditioning on. 80 degrees outside: Turn heat on.Anyways, just got news that I don't have to take the biology ECA, which I guess is a good thing.
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