math question of the day

michala182

michala182

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Who's the idiot who said this was Calculus?

It's fucking algebra...

Once you get into AP Calculus or upper level math, stuff flies over most peoples heads. It gets into shit with theories and proving stuff with theories but you never do any actual math.

It's like "If this happens, and this happens at this point, this might happen because this theory says it might." "Zomg A+!!!"

It's bullshit shenanigans, I just stopped going to that class... literally had 60+ absences in a 90 day semester... that and I decided mah career wouldn't require any upper level math so I just said fuck it....
 
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mel_v_4192

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I sit here, reading this over multiple times, sifting the words through my mind and trying to comprehend what kind of response this deserves. I want to facepalm so badly, but it would be out of sadness.
 
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rauhaki2

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You can't deny that most of Calculus was bullshit, my teacher even said that he was positive we wouldn't use any of what we were learning unless we were becoming a math teacher ourselves... He said that "completing" calculus was just to show you were capable of understanding and completing the work, and that it was "an accomplishment" in itself (Like getting good ACT scores or something)...

Another thing I hated about school, forcing kids to take classes that they won't use again.

I guess it was my fault for taking AP Calc when I didn't plan to pursue anything requiring higher-level math eh?
 
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TheresaR

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I suppose. I know that the formation of the Calculus by Newton (or Leibniz) was far from useless except for the purpose of teaching it to students. Besides teaching you how to solve new kinds of problems and ancient paradoxes dealing with the nature of zero and infinity, it is used extensively in every branch of the physical sciences (ie: the real world) to easily solve problems such as computing the velocity or acceleration of an object in motion just by knowing the position of the object as a function of it's time. Don't even get me started on its necessity to the foundations of classical mechanic and electromagnetic equations. Of course, you won't get very far just knowing basic AP Calc, just as you won't get very far if you can only read words that are less than four letters long. It takes time and patience and effort to be able to understand and apply higher math.



That too. Exactly.
 
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hotWings

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NEW QUESTION TODAY!

I have monday off work so answer to question 1 is posted.
and calculus is the basis of all the acceleration/velocity/position formulas.
anytime you can graph something ( elk population vs time , drug effectiveness versus dose, etc. ) you can use calculus and someone allready has used calculus. claculus is how they decide on prescription doses as well as a number of other things. calculus is used in the design of sky scrapers due to strange wind loads. it is not essential for any one individual to know calculus ( you dont need it to count your change at dairy queen ) but it IS essential for a group within a population to know and use calculus ( and get paid for it )
 
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EverardG

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i could figure out the 2nd problem in like 30 seconds if i still had my normal cad software on here. ehh, maybe i'll re install it tonight.
 
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look

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ok first, you can use calculus to make that problem much easier.

second, what the hell do you consider "actual math"? adding and subtracting?
 
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