Look, I'm only trying to give you a little helpful advice. Hell, maybe you're not even going to have to do math again after high school. However, the reality is that the majority of students will just plug and chug in their calculators, having no idea what the fuck they are even trying to solve for. I mean seriously, do you know what the answers mean to that equation? Do you know their relevance in the larger picture?
My issue is not with the use of calculators or computational devices, it's the lack of focus and attention put into the larger picture of mathematics. I know that the majority of my peers at university have no idea what the concepts behind basic calculus are or their implications for the classwork we are learning. I believe Rym stated that the majority of his peers at RIT had to take remedial math when they first entered school. That is unacceptable.
I figured, my appreciations for the advice. But yes, I have math in computer science, and since I've started the 3rd of December I missed some stuff about vectors, but now we're working with Matrixes. Fun things, those Gauss methods though I have a few more to learn iirc. Anyways, yeah, I have to do everything with pen, paper and in my head, and seeing as I'm not that fast with maths, it's somewhat sucky and hard. I need to practice more of that integrating stuff. My worst point. *sigh*
Anyways, yeah, the solutions to the equation are the x coordinates of the two points where the parabola intersects with the x-axle. AKA, where the y-coordinates are 0. What that means in the bigger picture I have no idea though, I don't know what you mean with bigger picture so yeah XD;;.
I agree with Sail on your point about the larger picture and it never having been clearly taught in high school, you learn to do x and y and if you can reconstruct the steps during the tests you pass. You don't really have to understand what you're doing. Which in my case is pretty much the opposite. I know the knowledge is somewhere in my brain, it's just irretrievable and unlinked to anything and everything.
@ Sail, sine, etc, will be slightly cleared up when you get the circle with radius 1. (what's it called in English?)unit circle!
Trigonometrical functions aren't that hard to under stand, think of you drawing the triangle and measuring the missing parts. I don't know if it helps but basically they describe the relation between parts of the triangle.
As for the integral, I'm fighting with that at school too, especially when you have to differentiate and integrate back and forth with different functions (relearning opposite tasks is hard).
It's not unlike learning Latin before going on to learn the other romance languages. You don't need to learn Latin at all but it builds an excellent foundation for the other languages.
True, learning about sentence structure, usage of cases and getting an understanding of many languages because of the use very similar words is really good and helps a lot. Also Latin is very similar to mathematics one has his basic set of tools and goes through predefined steps.
I've always wanted to take a few math classes. I think I had one when I was in high school, the only thing I remember is the math teacher hated me. My school only had algebra and geometry for high school math, there was no calculus. Not to mention that I got so bored with high school I just walked out of class one day and went to the local community collage and had my GDE before the rest of my class was out of school for the day. If you are in high school and bored I don't know that I would recommend that route.
The equation in question was not difficult at all. Do it with 2 and it's to high, and 1 won't work. So it's somewhere between 1 and 2. I did it in my head no problem. The one thing that equation will do is (as Scott said before) keep out 90% of the people on the Internet. They see it and think "eww math yuck" and go away.
The equation in question was not difficult at all. Do it with 2 and it's to high, and 1 won't work. So it's somewhere between 1 and 2. I did it in my head no problem. The one thing that equation will do is (as Scott said before) keep out 90% of the people on the Internet. They see it and think "eww math yuck" and go away.
That's the easy part but you don't get an answer out of it Also there are two possible answers
That's the easy part but you don't get an answer out of it Also there are two possible answers
I got 1.5 hence the "I did it in my head no problem", but whatever. I'd say anything much more difficult and I'd be out. Unless it really mattered to me, in which case I'd do a bit of research and learn how to do the equation.
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Anyways, yeah, the solutions to the equation are the x coordinates of the two points where the parabola intersects with the x-axle. AKA, where the y-coordinates are 0. What that means in the bigger picture I have no idea though, I don't know what you mean with bigger picture so yeah XD;;.
I agree with Sail on your point about the larger picture and it never having been clearly taught in high school, you learn to do x and y and if you can reconstruct the steps during the tests you pass. You don't really have to understand what you're doing. Which in my case is pretty much the opposite. I know the knowledge is somewhere in my brain, it's just irretrievable and unlinked to anything and everything.
@ Sail, sine, etc, will be slightly cleared up when you get the circle with radius 1. (what's it called in English?)unit circle!
As for the integral, I'm fighting with that at school too, especially when you have to differentiate and integrate back and forth with different functions (relearning opposite tasks is hard). True, learning about sentence structure, usage of cases and getting an understanding of many languages because of the use very similar words is really good and helps a lot. Also Latin is very similar to mathematics one has his basic set of tools and goes through predefined steps.
The equation in question was not difficult at all. Do it with 2 and it's to high, and 1 won't work. So it's somewhere between 1 and 2. I did it in my head no problem. The one thing that equation will do is (as Scott said before) keep out 90% of the people on the Internet. They see it and think "eww math yuck" and go away.