Do you like mathematics ?

What do you think of math ?

  • I love it

    Votes: 24 35.8%

  • I like it a little but not much

    Votes: 17 25.4%

  • I'm not interested

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • I hate it

    Votes: 22 32.8%

  • I have really no idea

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Total voters
    67
I'm surprised how many people are dependent on calculators. When I interpret college math classes, I notice that even the instructors depends on using the calculator for even basic operations.

I didn't get my first "pocket" calculator until I was about 24 years old (they weren't available before that)--it was a Casio. :D
 
Reba said:
I never took any higher level math courses; just algebra 1 & 2, and plane geometry in high school, and algebra in college. I enjoyed taking math in school. It was the "old" math--no calculators but good ol' slide rule.

I most enjoy doing math in my head. I developed that practice when I worked at a movie theater snack stand for a year after high school. We had no "register"--just a divided cash tray. I had to total up prices, figure the tax, and make change in my head. That was in CT, and at that time the sales tax was 7.5%, and it wasn't charged for every item (candy and orange drink yes, popcorn and ice cream no). My accounts balanced every time.

I drive Hubby nuts. When we go shopping, I keep a running total of purchases in my head. When we get to the checkout, I have the exact amount of money ready, including taxes. I am also the person that everyone asks for help for figuring tips, grade averages, how many boards or gallons of paint to buy, etc. It's just a game.
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:lol: But, you know... It's GOOD that you learned the "old way". As for me, they tried to teach me by different methods, and it just confused me to no end. I ended up graduating high school with just the basics. I attempted algebra in college, but lets just say my performance was less than stellar in that class. :whistle: lol

I think if they had stuck to one method and tought me, I would have been okay. As it was, I never really learned much, because, I spent all of Jr. High and High School massively confused. Needless to say, I am VERY calculator dependant!
 
I don't really like math. I think I have "Dyscalculia" .. always had (still do now) problem memorizing the multiplication table higher than 5. I do addition/subtraction with no problem. but division so-so. So I do rely on the calculator to do the students' grades.
 
Oceanbreeze said:
:lol: But, you know... It's GOOD that you learned the "old way". As for me, they tried to teach me by different methods, and it just confused me to no end. I ended up graduating high school with just the basics. I attempted algebra in college, but lets just say my performance was less than stellar in that class. :whistle: lol

I think if they had stuck to one method and tought me, I would have been okay. As it was, I never really learned much, because, I spent all of Jr. High and High School massively confused. Needless to say, I am VERY calculator dependant!
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I know what you mean. I was fortunate to learn math mostly the old way. They started changing things later on with no consistency at all. Now, my kids will probably be using different techniques and I gotta learn that too in order to help them. Fortunately, I'm good at math...
 
Oceanbreeze said:
...I think if they had stuck to one method and tought me, I would have been okay. ..
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I know what you mean. I got caught in the "New Math" transition in 7th grade (1963), and overnight I went from straight-A math student to totally lost. I didn't recover until high school freshman algebra. Then I got back on track (straight-A again). Since then, the schools have dropped the "old" New Math, and are using different methods (I don't know what it is called now.) What a mess!
 
sr171soars said:
I know what you mean. I was fortunate to learn math mostly the old way. They started changing things later on with no consistency at all. Now, my kids will probably be using different techniques and I gotta learn that too in order to help them. Fortunately, I'm good at math...
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Aack! I just read your post after I had submitted mine! Spooky! I had read and responded to Oceanbreeze's post before I had read yours. :Oops:
 
I like math - just basic. I am not 100% crazy over it. I am usin' it for shoppin' reason. :)
 
Reba said:
I'm surprised how many people are dependent on calculators. When I interpret college math classes, I notice that even the instructors depends on using the calculator for even basic operations.

I didn't get my first "pocket" calculator until I was about 24 years old (they weren't available before that)--it was a Casio. :D
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PRE-Sister,

Tell me about it. what was the cost for the basic calculator that you saw first time in your life? I was a little kid at 8 while you probably were hot young sexy...
 
I vote other...

I hate math when I was at school :mad2: until I got a job at US Army caserne... I have to use math EVERYDAY because it's my job. (use %, etc.. on utilities compsumation, invoices, etc. with calculator machine ) :eek2: I getting use and like it... :D

Of course I have "pocket" calculator. My hubby and my both sons are very good with math...
 
i used to like math at school now I might forget if I go back to college I will remember :D

and I dont use calculator, but in my mind ;)
 
Liebling:-))) said:
I vote other...

I hate math when I was at school :mad2: until I got a job at US Army caserne... I have to use math EVERYDAY because it's my job. (use %, etc.. on utilities compsumation, invoices, etc. with calculator machine ) :eek2: I getting use and like it... :D

Of course I have "pocket" calculator. My hubby and my both sons are very good with math...
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:lol: opposite mine, my girls's father installed calculator on my SK2 we used to share before and I looked who and why did it and removed it :)
 
I once used to like math very much .. I majored math in uni.. but many things has changed in my life.. especially in regard to my world of senses.. As my hearing loss getting worse and worse my view on life has changed as well .. thereby I lost my interest in math.. instead, I've moved to another world .. amazing world of half silence.. I'm currently mastering the new world I'm in :)

I like laughing so much :lol:

:roll: :bump: :cuddle:
 
Reba said:
I know what you mean. I got caught in the "New Math" transition in 7th grade (1963), and overnight I went from straight-A math student to totally lost. I didn't recover until high school freshman algebra. Then I got back on track (straight-A again). Since then, the schools have dropped the "old" New Math, and are using different methods (I don't know what it is called now.) What a mess!
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I don't know what it's like now. I shudder to think what it would be like now. I graduated HS in the 80s. I also struggled greatly. I scraped by with a C (average) in school, but never really grasped all of the concepts I needed for the higher maths like algebra and such. Oh, and you can forget geometry and trig. I never even LOOKED at that! Don't know what it is, and don't wanna know what it is! :lol: It's a mess, no question, and it has been for more than a decade.

In college, I had to take some remedial math courses before I got to college Algebra. I was fortunate enough to have a prof that tought math the "old" way. And, that helped. I learned more in that semester than I learned in ALL of my twelve years in school!
 
sr171soars said:
I know what you mean. I was fortunate to learn math mostly the old way. They started changing things later on with no consistency at all. Now, my kids will probably be using different techniques and I gotta learn that too in order to help them. Fortunately, I'm good at math...
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I know! My neice and nephew are starting school now. My nephew is in Kindergarten and my neice is in pre-K. I figure that I'll be able to help them with their homework until they reach 3rd, maybe 4th grade (if I'm lucky!).

I grasp multiplication pretty well, but I falter with division, fractions, decimals, and on and on. I also have the added difficulty of being out of college for 10 or so years. I mentioned in my post to Reba that I had a professor who tought remedial math the "old way", and I learned a lot from her. However, it's been a good 10 years since I was in her class. God help me!

:lol:
 
Oceanbreeze said:
I don't know what it's like now. I shudder to think what it would be like now. I graduated HS in the 80s. I also struggled greatly. I scraped by with a C (average) in school, but never really grasped all of the concepts I needed for the higher maths like algebra and such. Oh, and you can forget geometry and trig. I never even LOOKED at that! Don't know what it is, and don't wanna know what it is! :lol: It's a mess, no question, and it has been for more than a decade.

In college, I had to take some remedial math courses before I got to college Algebra. I was fortunate enough to have a prof that tought math the "old" way. And, that helped. I learned more in that semester than I learned in ALL of my twelve years in school!
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You got a "C"? I bet you did not know that there were some answers in the back of math text book.

Honest, I did not know about the answers in back until freshmen in high school. Thanks a lot to stupid classmates for not showing me earlier :fu2:
 
I have a math learning disablity but I do enjoy math now much better than I did in high school and I use a calucator especially when doing the bills. :) :thumb:
 
Reba said:
I'm surprised how many people are dependent on calculators. When I interpret college math classes, I notice that even the instructors depends on using the calculator for even basic operations.

I didn't get my first "pocket" calculator until I was about 24 years old (they weren't available before that)--it was a Casio. :D
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Ah good old Casio.

I remember the calucator wristwatches.

On a serious note.

I think American schools should be trained in both doing math the old fashioned way then use a graph calcuator etc but give more emphasis to doing math on paper and pen.
 
Heath said:
Ah good old Casio.

I remember the calucator wristwatches.

On a serious note.

I think American schools should be trained in both doing math the old fashioned way then use a graph calcuator etc but give more emphasis to doing math on paper and pen.
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Yeah, Agree ! (One of Good exercises for our Brains)

:werd:
 
I love math. I've had to take a lot of math classes in college in regards to my major which is business finance. I've taken Algebra I and II, 2 different Statistics classes (can't remma the name exactly), Business Statistics, Matrices & Vectors, Caluclus I and II, and Business Caluclus. That's all I can remember for now... I can't remember all of my classes that I took! :doh:
 
I am never good in math...it's always been my worse subject. The highest kind of math class I've taken in school was pre-algebra, I have never taken any advanced than that....and I've been to deaf/HOH program's math classes during my 3 years of H.S., and then in 12th grade, I had to take a math class with hearing kids who wanted to pass that test just to get a diploma....I finally made it and got a standard diploma at my 1988 HS graduation. I passed the English part in 9th grade to get the diploma. :)
I rely the calculator a lot....it's a big help. :)
 
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