Arithmetic Haters Moaning Thread

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― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I JUST CAN'T BE DEALING WITH aLGEBRA, never used it, never gonna use it and since when did letters and numbers add together mean anything...huff!

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

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Math is hard!

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

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― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

aw, leave me alone. sad face!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

What's this "Math" thing? When did it stop being "Maths" ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

when we went all US instead of UK

whats wrong g-kit?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

This whole thread just doesn't add up.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

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erm, *huffs* ahhh, *scratches head*, erm, Sniffs.... joot alores i dont know! *runs crying head in hands*

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I got an A for maths A level but cannot do the simplest of sums without a calculator or at least pen and paper :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

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MATT DAMON!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

drawing spider diagrams to show classmates how he became an actor, "right 1+1=....."

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

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― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Every year on the BB thread we go over the odds system and every year I don't get it and Bloke looks at me like I'm thick.

"It's simple", he says.
"Yeah, well, remembering that it's not "less people" but "fewer people" is simple for me, but I don't see many others getting it right."

Maths/numbers snobs. I hate them.

ALL OF THEM.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

I never ever understood algebra even to this day, if i ever have kids when i'm older and they ask me, theyre screwed i cant help them!

but in no way does that make me think or lacking in intelligence, because i can work out tax, vat (just another form of tax) and my wages just fine, and thats all i have ever needed, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.....no letters just numbers

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Particularly since when we're right, we stay right. But when enough people are wrong about language, they're right. (IE it is "less people" by this stage).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

andrew what are you talking abt? you have completely lost me!

less people? que?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost: meaning "this is not a reply to the previous post, but one before that"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Particularly since when we're right, we stay right

Oh yeah, I forgot that part. I take it all back. You brainiacs are GRATE.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

ahhh cheers

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

I went to a children's museum last week and played with colored interlocking shapes (you could make a dodecagon!) and went into a mirror room that made a kaleidoscope out of your reflections. Why can't math education be like that? It would be so much fun!

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

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