This thread is just what the title says it is. It is all about Math. You can post math jokes(the jokes don't have to be good), math questions, what you like about Math, or even why you hate Math.
My math joke: Resistance is not futile. It is voltage divided by amps.
Oh I have a TI Silver edition graphing calc. Its good because it has more storage than plus and you can use it on the SAT, unlike the Nspire. Jenerally though, we use these little yellow calculators that are T13s or something since we arent allowed to use graphing calcs on the EOCTs
So in my Algebra II course, we were introduced to imaginary numbers today. Everyone was freaking out, and I was thinking along the lines of:
'Just seems like a BS reason for a person to bend rules'
I can see it now:
'They say I can't find the root of a negative number? Well, how about I put in some imaginary numbers! How do ya like that, teach?'
I'll take Pre-Cal next year, so I can actually start learning things I've never seen before. I hate my class right now; we just finished factoring trinomials. :/
I'll take Pre-Cal next year, so I can actually start learning things I've never seen before. I hate my class right now; we just finished factoring trinomials. :/
Sorry to break this to you but Pre-Calc is just a review of Algebra II pretty much. The only new things are in second semester Pre-Calc.
We did the unit on imaginary numbers earlier this year. Everyone freaked out in my class too.
i= square root of -1 i^2= -1 i^3= -1 times the square root of -1 i^4= 1 a negative times a negative is a positive! It really makes no sense, but whatever. I dont see the point in imaginary numbers, but its some of the easiest work I've done all year, so I don't really mind.
I don't really see the point either. But my math teacher does make us think. He talked about if are thoughts are real or not. Didn't really relate to math but was an interesting conversation.
Yeah that sounds more like philosophy or something. My teacher is assigns us book work after about a half hour of note taking then sits at the computer looking up colleges for us. Sometimes she'll make us find the average tuition rates for every college in a state then find the standard deviation, mean absolute deviation, mean, median, mode, etc. just so it will relate back to math x]
