Math from 1950 up to 2005

[zx2guy]

there are also those varying types of teachers... yes ive had more then my fare share of idiot math teachers, who we would call the mistakes on. but every now and then ild get those math teachers who actually knew what they were doing. those teachers impress me. my last math class was with a guy named mr baumguarder. we called him bomb for short.< sarcastic as hell, and he could turn anything around on a student who was gving him shit... it was fricken awesome. but he would blow your mind on some of this stuff, we asked him hard questions out of left field and he could tell you the answer in a matter of seconds. in fact i held the longest record against him on how long it took him to give the answer. 2 minutes 38 seconds. < this guy scared the dumb shit right out of you on how he did it.

[xviciousx]

my finetics mathematics teacher had a PhD in Mathematics... how the hell can you do that? I could never goto school for that long for that subject.

[zx2guy]

hell i cant keep my mind on math for more then 20 minutes a day before im fried... let alone 8(?) YEARS of extra math in college.

[xviciousx]

it takes an average of 8 years to get a PhD yes

[Vtec95Civic]

Math is easy.

[AlbanyCartel]

parents are too lenient; they should start beating the shit out their kids again.

that, or have state schools employ nuns - sexually frustrated, and angry nuns.

[D[X]P]

so true so true haha

[kicker1_solo]

Originally Posted by AlbanyCartel

parents are too lenient; they should start beating the shit out their kids again.

exactly!



I'm only 21 but when I was in school they still taught us basic mathematics. Throw any problem at me and I can give you the answer in seconds. However I've noticed with the next generation of kids (15-18) if the computers are down at their jobs they can't do shit, not even basic math like you guys have stated above. I can't even understand it...

[eversio11]

lol awesome post

[thecackster]

Yea, at the store the other day, the power was out....That place was in chaos. No body could add the bottle of soda and the chips shit, and in Nevada there is no food tax, so that wasn't the problem. I also have been like wait I have the change, and it was the exact change so i just got the extra dollar bill, and the tard couldn't figure it out. Really frustrates me.

[-Jacko-]

Originally Posted by eversio11

lol awesome post

I AGREE!

[xviciousx]

My threads never die... they just get quiet for awhile.

[balls_to_the_wall]

I think they need to quit using calculators till college. Learn how to do the shit on paper and in your head. I will admit, my math education has been quite poor through the entire grade school - high school. I think it would have been better if we would have been taught more how to do everything on paper instead of on a damn calculator. Hell, my roommate has been through calc1-3, Engineering physics 1 (working on 2), and in Diff. Eq, on just a cheap ass 20 dollar calculator. I know right now I couldn't do that, but I'm trying to get better at it.

[EnergyForce]

Fortunetly even though I fall into the range that is described for people being idiots at basic math I escaped the whole math decline by being homeschooled by my parents grades 1-5 and in 6th grade I went to a school that had not yet conformed to the new math standards. Right now im in Calc 1 at my college and ive still got discreate math, calc 2 and linear algebra down the line. (what have I gotten myself into? )

ps. I didn't own a calculator untill 9th grade

[fredjacksonsan]

Sad but true.....without a calculator, most kids of today's math skills suck.