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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
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Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I have a strong feeling that, nobody on earth would take free time that they have to learn Algebra. I'm so sick of people thinking I am worthless because I have no interest in it, I fucking hate it.
02-07-2013 11:35 PM
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RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I would have, and I'd have learned it much more quickly than I learned it in school. I love math. Somebody isn't worthless just because they don't care for Algebra though. There's many more interesting subjects out there to educate yourself on.
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(This post was last modified: 02-07-2013 11:48 PM by Sunbourn.)
RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I should have made it clear, I also don't think anyone is stupid for loving math, not at all. It's just not for me, and I hate having it forced down my throat when I gave up a very long time ago. It's more of algebra that I don't like, I of course would have learned basic math and stuff.
02-07-2013 11:55 PM
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Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
What's algebra again?
* SoulRiser Googles it
Oh, that shit with x and y and whatever. Yes, I would have learned this as soon as I started dabbling in programming. But it'd probably just be a side effect of learning programming, which, incidentally, is still the only use I've ever had for it.
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RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I've never really even had to know any algebra for programming... I guess some of the stuff can be considered algebra but you don't really have to study algebra to figure out how to do it...
meh, maybe I'll need it more in advanced programming classes or some shit.
Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I guess I've never really thought of it as algebra while using it... more like just using normal programming features, like variables, in calculations and stuff.
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RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I'm always doing algebra outside of school. I like to help my sisters and my cousin with their math homework. I really really really like math. Course that just may be because since having the worst math teacher ever, and dealing with skipping school a lot I'm taking algebra 1 for the THIRD time. I should be in pre-calc T-T
RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
See, the thing is in real life, what we learn isn't divided into neat little subjects. Take, for example, doing genetic punnet squares. It's biology, right? Well, yes, it's simplified biology, it's also probabilities and English though. Heck, this discussion is English...it's reading.
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One thing (among many others) school couldn't teach you.
Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
Exactly, what Trekkie said. Half of these subjects wouldn't even have names if it wasn't for school. They'd just be a regular part of life that nobody even thought to group together.
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RE: Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
See why I like deliverables, guys? It can prove several things at once. Let's say your assignment is to make a poster about...oh, I don't know, saving the earth. It requires you to think about presentation (choosing colours, white space), computer skills or fine motor skills depending on whether you did it by hand or on the computer, spelling (because if your words are spelt so wrongly as to be unrecognisable...what's the point?), selecting pictures (if you did it on the computer) and more, depending on how you did.
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One thing (among many others) school couldn't teach you.
Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I would definitely would have learned algebra on my own. I have a large interest in physics and physics has algebra.
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Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
I probably would have learned it mostly as part of the path to learning calculus.
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02-10-2013 05:53 AM
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Would you ever have taken time outside of school to learn Algebra?
Not really.....Unless I needed to know something for a program.
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