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Condor 6 months ago
Are you telling me that you are not excited to solve a system of differential equations?
The value of learning math is not just being able to solve integrals and understand functions. Most people will never use that in their day-to-day life, not even most engineers, myself included. Part of the benefit is developing your brain to be able to think logically. A workout for the mind, if you will. I know I will never have to do a bench press outside of the gym, but I do it in the gym anyway because of the results that extend beyond doing that particular exercise.
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jb55 _@jb55.com 6 months ago
yeah it makes no sense. I never enjoyed math until I actually needed it, like linear algebra for building games. I think I was in my 20s when I finally decided to learn it for real. my math classes growing up were useless.
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arcadium 6 months ago
Learning algebra,geometry,and calculus…. Seems as reasonable skill as learning to shoe a horse ,so I can drive down the road if I even need to in a carriage. I’ll stick with AI(phone calculator) and my horseless carriage (automobile) I had to have 3 years of math in high school, very thankful they let me take 3 years of general math over and over 😁 I got my multiplication tables down pat 👍
If you have ever done grocery shopping and bought more than one item, you've done algebra. it's the first math you learn at school. If Jimmy has 8 oranges and Sally has 5 apples how many fruit does Jimmy and Sally have together? Or the question about the guy that buys 50 watermelons at a time for $1.05 each etc. We've all seen those "the guy from the math problem memes" Algebra is the math that you actually use in real life.