The Rage Topic

#341

Okay, I know some people can find it useful, but, what will I get from understanding complex abstract processes that don’t even exist in the real world and can only be achieved by the work of bored minds that didn’t have anything better to do but creating intricate puzzles?

It’s like if I created a new language that nobody uses and forced everyone to learn it, eventhough they’ll never fucking use it, NEVER.

FUCK

This guys say they’re logical and all that crap but I find their discipline the most unlogical and retarded ever since is useless unless you’re going to work in something related. But it’s not the only useless assignature, I must recon. Like history, it isn’t very useful either. But at least IT’S INTERESTING.

Numbers are dull, nobody likes them, because they don’t exist. We fucking created, they never happened. It’s completely abstract. Chemistry, biology, geography, all of them are based in facts. But this is based in nothing but those fucking imaginary digits I fucking can’t get out of my head now.

Thanks God this is the last year I’ll have to study math, it’s driving me crazy.

#342

Training your mind to not become an idiot?

#343

You know, at some point you’re learning a level of math that most people won’t use in real life unless they want to go into scientific areas.

High-school math should have an optional learning level. Like, if you want to learn more advanced math, you get additional classes for that, while normal math keeps teaching the more basic level of math that you are more likely to use in real world situations.

#344

This is the entire reason math textbooks have so many word problems; they’re to help you understand how abstract math is actually applicable to real life.

#345

Gosh Joe are you like in highschool or something? Either that or you’re 12…

#346

all of those are based on math, directly and indrectly

math is the basis of our entire civilization

#347

If you want to apply math to real life, play a game like EVE Online or WoW.

#348

I kinda have to agree somewhat here. The type of math I’m currently learning really seems to be quite unnecessary for being an actor.

I do still see that some of it has a point, though, and I don’t bitch about it, which many of my classmates are happy to do for me, but when the teacher just right out says “this is physically impossible in any real-world scenario”, yeeeaaah, no.

Next year’s math course is actually optional for us, though. Hooray.

#349

To be fair, it’s also supposedly impossible to have a percentage greater than 100, or so I was told in elementary school.

#350

Percentages are relative. If I have $100 and someone gives me $200 that means I had a 200% increase in money.

#351

Yeah I’m in the last year in high school(Don’t know how is the system there, I’m 18 )

If you want to train your mind you can think whathever you want, you don’t need to be forced to resolve puzzles.

#352

I don’t know, I think it’s not a question of “usefulness” in a strict sense… because in that case, why would have I studied 5 years of Latin and Ancient Greek in high school, only to go to a medical university later, even though I knew a more scientific backbone would have given me more strenght and knowledge in making my way through? I should have gone for Literature, of Philosophy, not something so much science-based.

All these apparently useless things (Maths included) give you “something” that may lay subtle in the back of your brain, “something” difficult to explain, but that are indeed subliminally useful in some point and some aspects of your life.
For example, I find myself having much more “plasticity” in my way of thinking than my peers with a more strict scientific background. And it’s not because I’ve read Homer, Plato or Cicero, they have nothing to do “in a strict sense” with medicine, do they? They should be very useless to me in my everyday life, but still, having studied them changed my way of thinking in some aspects, for the good.
And you can apply this to all the subjects you are studying in high school: each of them will subliminally leave you “something” different.

They are not making you learn Maths for Maths’ sake: it has its subtle purpouse, in the end. You will see. Time will pay back your efforts. :slight_smile:
That’s why I find Acade’s answer more correct, in its own way:

#353

there’s this thing called “common knowledge” that is actually quite important and essential for a society

#354

Wow.

Wow.

What do you want to do with your life?

Wow.

#355

also math = logic pretty much, so how can you say that math is illogical :d

#356

In olden days kids had to know long division in their head and work it out without writing it down. Fuckers knew how to make math real! Nowadays math seems to be more an exercise in “Here is a new way of doing the same shit you will probably never use”

#357

Can we move on now? I think the point has been made.

#358

Not enough rage in the world, at the moment

#359

WHY TO FUCK DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO COLD?! I THOUGHT GLOBAL WARMING WAS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF IT! ALL THIS TIRE BURNING AND CFC SPRAYING I’VE BEEN DOING ALL THIS TIME AIN’T FOR SHIT!

#360

DICE fails to deliver Battlefield 3’s Aftermath expansion on time, it is now a day late from schedule, and before you pin me for bitching, I paid for the premium service, so I expect shit to be released on time.
Someone in the forums used a terrific dinner analogy but it’s buried in the millions of aftermath threads by now.

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