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People that hate math

post #1 of 47
1/9/10 at 9:22pm
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How did you survive college?
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post #2 of 47
1/9/10 at 9:27pm
By not majoring in something math heavy. Or higher math heavy, in my case.
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post #3 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:03pm
because classes are curved and i have a calculator - this is coming from a guy that took everything up to calc 4
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post #4 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:07pm
I took an optional calculus course in high school so I'd be ready for the one mandatory calculus course I had to take in college. Haven't taken a math intensive course in 4 years now.
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post #5 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:16pm
Just because I hate math doesn't mean I'm bad at it.
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post #6 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:22pm
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Originally Posted by TyCooN View Post
How did you survive college?

Loved math (algebra, trig, statistics, etc). I took Calculus IV as an elective in college. I also taught stats in college..
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post #7 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:27pm
This is ignorance
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post #8 of 47
1/9/10 at 11:30pm
math is a tool......

there is nothing particular about a screwdriver that i like, but it gets the job done
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post #9 of 47
1/10/10 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by Mountains View Post
Just because I hate math doesn't mean I'm bad at it.

+1. I'd like to think I'm competent in math and have loads of respect for people can see elegance and beauty in it. I haven't exactly enjoyed my math classes, though.
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post #10 of 47
1/10/10 at 12:12am
i became a communications major and took math 101. AND passed with a C to boot.
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post #11 of 47
1/10/10 at 12:14am
by going through a lax educations system that allows them to be culturally ignorant.
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post #12 of 47
1/10/10 at 12:58am
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Originally Posted by scarphe View Post
by going through a lax educations system that allows them to be culturally ignorant.

Don't mind applied math myself, but I'm curious how the lack of math practice leads to cultural ignorance specifically. Why not just say ignorance in general?
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post #13 of 47
1/10/10 at 1:19am
Don't diss theater majors.. they have a bright and productive future ahead of them.
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post #14 of 47
1/10/10 at 1:52am
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Originally Posted by erdawe View Post
Don't mind applied math myself, but I'm curious how the lack of math practice leads to cultural ignorance specifically. Why not just say ignorance in general?

Good point. Science education often comes by way of a history-of-science narrative, so I would say a person with no knowledge of, say, the theory of relativity or the theory of evolution is not only scientifically ignorant, but culturally ignorant as well. If a person has no idea who Einstein or Darwin are, or how their ideas differed from those that came before them, they would be less able to understand a cultural text that assumes familiarity with this base of common cultural knowledge.

Mathematical knowledge, on the other hand, doesn't usually have much of a narrative attached to it, and is often handed to students as something essentially anonymous in origin. For the most part, I wouldn't say ignorance of mathematics also implies some cultural ignorance.
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post #15 of 47
1/10/10 at 1:53am
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Originally Posted by TyCooN View Post
How did you survive college?

I'm about to find out.
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