lol how about.. fuck no.

What math is that?

its 12th grade algebra. something i couldn't have cared less for in school.

i can code, script and programme just about anything electrical, i've still not found one fucking use for the bullshit maths they teach you in highschool.

kvhc128 wrote:

What math is that?

Doesn't look very organized to me. Jumps from Calculus (integrals) to very basic Algebra.

i'd tell your teacher to teach something useful. fucking bullshit education system.

no, what you mean to say is.. its useful in certain aspects of work and study. i work at a hardware coding level alot higher than uni students (except i taught myself). and i've never used any algebra. i just don't think they need to teach it in public school.

to each their own i suppose.

If you don't know at least some basic calculus prior to university, you're pretty much fucked. Calc is used extensively in the real world, nut just among engineers like gafee and I.

By the way gafee, I'm a ChemE as well.

lol thats a load of shit.

"in the real world" computers do the calculation.

its totally useless unless your going to be a chemEn. or a pharmacist etc.

why teach it to those who arn't going to be.

Then why are they making me do all sorts of integrals and series and graphs by hand?

The computer is only as good as it's user.

? a good cpu can work out 800MILLION FloatingPoint maths equasions and find 50MILLION prime numbers in a second.. in that case "the user isnt a millionth as good as the computer" and with the proper calc. you CAN work out anything. read up on stanfords SCPU. trust me, your wasting your time with this argument.

edit: BIO-X2 i beleive, it can work out ANY equation, within limits (time travel, causality etc) in the near future home pc's will have a similar chipset and microprocessor.

dude, i understand what your saying, but your getting into complicated sciences.. thats what i was saying - who uses that stuff in an everyday situation, without study and without work. no one. therefor it should be taught in higher studies only, instead of spending millions a year on teaching our younger kids bullshit like that, teach them computer studies, english, basic maths, and a wider range within those, atm they're teaching a million off-genre's which is why our unemployment rate will keep on climbing.

and besides, there's no fucking point in studying for something thats already been solved.. backwards.

and i don't give a fuck what you "think" the computer can solve alot more than any human can.

what you just said is totally of the subject, the point i was putting across was "highschool kids DO NOT need to learn medium to high level algebra"

i'm 19 and have awards for coding and engineering, i have higher qualifications than ALOT of programmers and engineers i know, and i went to public highschool. i told the teachers to get fucked quite a few times and i hated both science and math and yet i can run circles around half the twats that pay 30,000 a year for education.

you know what taught me, MYSELF, you go spend 10 years studying shit that is NEVER going to be used in the real world and end up earning 100k a year. i teach myself for 5 years on my own time and earn 20k a project, you tell me who's smarter.

"Ae you familiar with the Curry-Howard Correspondence isomorphism?" you tell me what the fuck any kid on here is going to do with abstract algebra and isomorphism?

lol sorry dude, algebra's not my strong suit.

lmao, suit yourself dude, a life in need of integrals, is a pretty sad one indeed.