Cat/Dog years....

[BlueTiki]

Is that British for Order of Operations? You people make "shit" sound fancy. What is the British word for shit? (Sorry, Duchess.)

No.

It's 'Old School'.

Done learned me that there term in High School algebra.

German instructor.

And yes . . . I still cross my seven and slash my zero.

[Cracker]

I hate it when people say "oh" instead of "zero." And "point" instead of "and" for the decimal. I give Double Oh Seven a pass on that, but no others.

I feel a little badly for kids these days. We give them shit about achievement but we forget they are doing more in middle school than most people did in high school. I'm not even sure Georgia has bonehead math anymore. How many of our generation wouldn't have graduated if they couldn't take 3 years of bonehead math?

[BlueTiki]

I'm not even sure Georgia has bonehead math anymore. How many of our generation wouldn't have graduated if they couldn't take 3 years of bonehead math?

That's why they have Community Colleges.

[username]

The most important thing to teach young people learning algebra: http://www.studygs.net/mathproblems.htm

Tranlating words to operations (any idiot can do the numbers, the real art to translation is knowing what operation they are asking you to perform). Main terms in italics. :

Addition
increased by
more than
combined, together
total of
sum
added to

Subtraction
decreased by
minus, less
difference between/of
less than, fewer than

Multiplication
of
times, multiplied by
product of
increased/decreased by a
factor of (this type can
involve both addition or
subtraction and
multiplication!)

Division
per, a
out of
ratio of, quotient of
percent (divide by 100)
Equals is, are, was, were, will be
gives, yields
sold for

I confess, I know nothing math wise. Here's another math problem:

The opposite of eleven times a number is 33. 3? Opposite, -3?

[BlueTiki]

The opposite of eleven times a number is 33. 3? Opposite, -3?

The answer is: "Purple."

There is no negativity in California math!

It's the law.

Besides, the opposite of -3 is 3. Get it?

"Opposite, -3?"

[ramseycat]

Geesh Cracker, math much??? You need another hobby. LOL

[Cracker]

Tell the math teacher she's a whore. 33.3 is a non-terminating, repeating decimal which means there is no whole number times 11 that even equals 33.3. if you divide 33.3 by 11, you get 3.0272727... The opposite would be -3.02727...

I bet she has a book entitled, "Stupid Shit To Ask Kids."

[BlueTiki]

And tell the twat the opposite of 33 is negative 33.

They never said to solve for the unknown.

[Cracker]

Just be a smartass and tell her the opposite of 11 times a number is -11 times the same number. And then tell her she's fat.

[BlueTiki]

Just be a smartass and tell her the opposite of 11 times a number is -11 times the same number. And then tell her she's fat.

[Cracker]

Geesh Cracker, math much??? You need another hobby. LOL

Math is money. People who are afraid of percentages or very large numbers limit themselves as to the amount of money they will be able to successfully manage. Companies make billions on the smallest percentage of a dollar and we are too retarded as a nation to realize it. The Devil is in the decimal.

Math is the only discipline that isn't subjective bullshit. It is a set of rules. Everything else you learn is according to some asshole's opinion on the matter.

How do people figure out what they are paying for compounded interest? They don't. That's why they are broke.

[username]

Just be a smartass and tell her the opposite of 11 times a number is -11 times the same number. And then tell her she's fat.

I have to second that!