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That would seem to imply that there's little point in learning algebra, let alone anything more advanced than that.
by emodendroket 5y ago
That would seem to imply that there's little point in learning algebra, let alone anything more advanced than that.
- smegger001 5y agowell to be fair i have never had to find the area under a curve, and have had to use the quadratic formula like once. and never had to find the log^10 of anything I use arithmetic logic and geometry and occasionally some basic statistics.
- zamadatix 5y agoFor most people there is little point in doing so from a "I really benefitted from knowing how to use this actual math" perspective. Fantastic for expanding reasoning and logical thinking capabilities, being able to come up with ways to reason about previously unseen logical problems from experience on learning how to solve many others previously. Not because finding a particular angle in an irregular nonagon from some other measures will be useful math to know itself.
- quinnjh 5y agoI recall in my algebra classes students being exasperated and asking repeatedly what if anything this has to do with any real world application. The answer was always "theres a lot of applications if you get a math job" to which we all groaned imagining counting cups of skittles and mentally dividing while the computers sat idle...