I abhor Math, especially parabolas.
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Hardly Anyone Remembers How to do Fractions
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 (January 17, 2017 at 12:44 am)Faith No More Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 12:39 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: It's bad enough that many people have forgotteon how to do fractions, but the fact that somehow 132*64 is easier for people to calculate than 1/3+1/4 astonishes me to no end. That means they can't even figure out how to punch .25 or .33333 [spam until calculator can't handle any more digits]. Or even figure out parentheses. This shit is disgraceful.
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![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.  (January 17, 2017 at 1:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: That means they can't even figure out how to punch .25 or .33333 [spam until calculator can't handle any more digits]. Or even figure out parentheses. This shit is disgraceful. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that they probably didn't even know that the line in the fractions means divide.
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Hehe the funny thing is when they use the calculator on their phone to add the fractions and they get .5833 and then they have to figure out what the fuck to do with that.
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 (January 17, 2017 at 2:44 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Hehe the funny thing is when they use the calculator on their phone to add the fractions and they get .5833 and then they have to figure out what the fuck to do with that. Some calculators work well with fractions, for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....hipercalc (January 17, 2017 at 3:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote:But let's be real... If a person would use a calculator to add those two factions, they won't have a non-stock calculator on their phone...(January 17, 2017 at 2:44 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Hehe the funny thing is when they use the calculator on their phone to add the fractions and they get .5833 and then they have to figure out what the fuck to do with that.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (January 17, 2017 at 3:04 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 3:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Some calculators work well with fractions, for example:But let's be real... If a person would use a calculator to add those two factions, they won't have a non-stock calculator on their phone... Even if they had such a non-stock calculator... I doubt they'd know how to use the fraction feature. So you can tell a lot about a person from the apps they carry in their phones... 
 (January 17, 2017 at 9:41 am)Cyrinistar Wrote: I abhor Math, especially parabolas. Hehe, I just spent the last 3 months torturing my 11th graders with those 
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 (January 17, 2017 at 9:41 am)Cyrinistar Wrote: I abhor Math, especially parabolas. I hate algebra. Soon as the alphabet got involved, that was me and maths finished.
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