Are you mathematical?

[Kid Presentable]

I'm fucking not. This shit sucks. Fuck numbers!

[Tone Capone]

I'm bored.

[zorra_chiflada]

well, i think i have the capability of being mathematical. i did advanced maths in high school. it's all gone now. i just got lazy and decided to go to art school.

[Southside Sue]

Numbers scare me. Like, I get all frazzled when I have to find the difference, or count money. Eugh!

[yooooo]

i guess i am a math-illiterate (can you say that?) or some shit like that
its a big problem for me and my job.. and hard to live with it.

i guess i am worse then anyone here in math

[Kid Presentable]

I'm exceptionally bad, and rusty from the last time I was any good at maths.

[icy manipulator]

i'm a genius at it:cool:

[HEIRESS]

thats all I do all day, look at sheets and sheets of test results
so we are talking thousands of values and Im making sure standards and QC are all perfect, looking for anomylies, detecting anything that should be retested or perhaps chosen for additional testing based upon the numbers we already got blah blah blah blah blah

I love my job, YAY NUMBERS!

[Tzar]

i add money up and stuff?

[icy manipulator]

i find it really easy to see connections in numbers that most ppl arent able to see. For example i can tell the cubed root of any number up to 8 million, or the fifth root of any number up to 10 billion, so long as the answer is a whole number. I have little tricks for it :cool:

[Documad]

I used to be really good at math. I love the way my brain feels when I do math. I love any kind of logic problem.

I actually bought a couple of math workbooks to play around with on vacation. My friends can't believe that.

[voltanapricot]

Today I watched the American version of Beauty and the Geek over a bacon sarnie and couldn't work out the maths questions the Beauties were getting. The point of the show is that they're dumb, so what do you think?

[Drederick Tatum]

I finished with maths as soon as I got the chance. even at 15 I knew maths was for nerds and squares. I never did learn how to do long division...:(

[fucktopgirl]

well, i think i have the capability of being mathematical. i did advanced maths in high school. it's all gone now. i just got lazy and decided to go to art school.

Pretty similar to me. I was in advanced maths but in my last year of high school, i start smoking weed and lose interest in it and focus my attention on my arts capabilities. Good thing i changed my career plan becuz i wanted to be a neurologist:D

[na§tee]

Today I watched the American version of Beauty and the Geek over a bacon sarnie and couldn't work out the maths questions the Beauties were getting. The point of the show is that they're dumb, so what do you think?
hahahaha! i was totally doing this too (ehm, sorry to quote you twice in a row but i am easily tickled this evening!). one was about 15% weight loss or something, wasn't it? i would have thought a skinny thing like her could at least apply it to weight loss and get something outta it.

mmm, bacon.

uh, yeah.. maths. i dunno. i was really good at standard grade, but i couldn't be arsed at higher level. i just didn't see the point. i prefer statistics. i did that for my degree so we could analyse all the test results of our psychology experiments etc etc and could see the value to that. it's crazy seeing a computer calculation say if your hypothesis is correct or not; for me, i managed to prove that forwards, normal movement helps in the identification of familiar faces, which was quite pleasing on my part! but that didn't involve me doing the actual calculations.. more explaining the results in a real life context, which is more fun. uh, so yeah. mathematics (n) statistics (y)

[voltanapricot]

Haha, yeah!
"Oooh I say she's got a nice, slim figure."
*bites into starchy, buttery sarnie*

The only statistical thing I can remember using in psychology is the Mann-Whitney U. I don't know how that has stuck.

I must confess that several weeks back I found myself fishing out an old maths text book to do some algebra. I don't know what on earth had possessed me to do that, I guess I was bored and fancied a challenge.

[jackrock]

I do pretty allright. I could go Enriched, but then all my classes would be, which wouldn't be cool.

[QueenAdrock]

I fuckin' hate math, that's why I was a history major. No math needed.

With that said, I can still calculate my mileage, how much money I'd be potentially saving at storewide sales, and my finances. That's all I need it for.

[icy manipulator]

Did any of you aussies remember doing the Westpac Maths Competition at school? it was the one which had multiple choice questions and you werent allowed to use a calculator? I cant remember if it was australia wide or just queensland....

[Lyman Zerga]

i STIIIIL count with my fingers..yeah still..


i hate math because of the numbers (true shit)
and i hate it even more cause my dad yelled at me non stop cause i was too stupid to ever get it

[TimDoolan]

I'm taking a college level math class called Dimensions of Numerical Reasoning. Its a class for teachers and I hate it with all my soul.

[Helvete]

I wouldn't say I was good at numbers, but I understand them a lot more than words. I had some entrance exam the other month for a job, which I hadn't prepared for, and thought I was going to fail, but somehow my math skills from the past awoke and I did pretty well.

[ericlee]

Fuck numbers!

I always thought 6 was hot. It's got that loop on the top which allows you to put your arm through it kinda like a headlock for extra grip and ram away.

[like2_drink]

the time a red ant bit my forskin > math

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

i guess i am a math-illiterate

i guess i am worse then anyone here in math

No Im math-illiterate. Lol. Im the WORST at math. Im a fucking senior. Im in basic algebra. NOT my best subject. My grandpa was like that too though, he was a senior and he was taking pre algebra.

[vickista]

Did any of you aussies remember doing the Westpac Maths Competition at school? it was the one which had multiple choice questions and you werent allowed to use a calculator? I cant remember if it was australia wide or just queensland....


yeah we do that, its optional and it costs $5, and only the really geeky nerds ever enter, i never did it myself but i would always try convince emily to do it, shes like rain man but female and with social skills.

[Tzar]

Did any of you aussies remember doing the Westpac Maths Competition at school? it was the one which had multiple choice questions and you werent allowed to use a calculator? I cant remember if it was australia wide or just queensland....
yes i do - and let me guess, you aced it? that's not cool, dude

[Kid Presentable]

I always thought 6 was hot. It's got that loop on the top which allows you to put your arm through it kinda like a headlock for extra grip and ram away.
Don't commit frottage with a 7.

[g-mile7]

My father is a college Math teacher. Has Masters in Enginering and Math. Im decent in Math....I can pass it.

[Kid Presentable]

My father is a college Math teacher. Has Masters in Enginering and Math. Im decent in Math....I can pass it.
You'd hope so. That's an impressive pedigree.

I liked it when I could do the problems, but there's just a block in front of my being able to interpret and identify the problems and answers. ag

[icy manipulator]

yeah we do that, its optional and it costs $5, and only the really geeky nerds ever enter, i never did it myself but i would always try convince emily to do it, shes like rain man but female and with social skills.
you have to pay for it now? damn. the prize money best be semi decent these days. it was compulsory when i had to take it

[icy manipulator]

yes i do - and let me guess, you aced it? that's not cool, dude
damn straight. 5 prize certificates/special achievement awards and 2 high distinctions. was is cool is that i got $200 overall from the prize certificates so i cant complain

[Nivvie]

My father is a college Math teacher. Has Masters in Enginering and Math.


Ditto my dad, but he did electronics engineering with his maths, teaches RAF cadet types flying theory stuff not college, and was mortally disappointed in me and my shit maths ability.


Now I am a homeschooler an having to teach the stuff, I'm finding it not half as awful as I did at school, but the simple fact is I just don't enjoy it.

[TAL]

i find it really easy to see connections in numbers that most ppl arent able to see. For example i can tell the cubed root of any number up to 8 million, or the fifth root of any number up to 10 billion, so long as the answer is a whole number. I have little tricks for it :cool:
"...and the number itself is a seven-digit prime which, when squared, is two digits short of being a factorial."

From a book.

[icy manipulator]

"...and the number itself is a seven-digit prime which, when squared, is two digits short of being a factorial."

From a book.
hahaha, well i cant work that one out, cant say i know any 13 or 14 factorials off the top of my head. is there a trick to it or was it just something an uber zoltan worked out?

[TAL]

No, it's a "Here's my number if you wanna call me. And if you can work it out" thing.

[icy manipulator]

hhahaha, clever

[instigator7022]

No.