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Algebra is more about brain conditioning than anything else.
You use Algebra every day in your head.
Like if you are wanting to find number 32 on a street and you are at number 16, you will know to 16/A=2 = 8 doors away. You don't think you are doing this, but your brain will (or should) do it for you with next to no thought about it.
The same applies to shopping, where you compare prices of different size packs to work out which is the best deal.
There are literally infinite uses and your brain will use algebra to calculate them without you realising. ____________________ struan80 - I'll go first - satisfied tick 1 |
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For the record. I got a band 1 A grade (the highest possible and best in my class) in my higher English exam. I answered the literature paper on a book I had never read at all and on a poem I had read once, two years previously.
My teacher was furious because she knew full well I hadn't read any of the specified texts and had spent the year doodling in a jotter and voicing the oppinion that whole subject was an exercise in confidently expressed bullshit. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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There's very little I learnt that I've never used and plenty I wish I'd paid much more attention to (especially languages).
Having said (typed) that, I should point out that for over half my working life there wasn't an Internet (and when it arrived, there wasn't always easy access), and I didn't have a mobile phone, let alone a smart phone.
If I had to choose the least useful, then probably stuff like Plant Biology and chemistry, but even for those subjects I've been able to tell young nephews/nieces about some stuff when they've asked.
By far the most useful thing was Algebra which at the time seemed like the least useful, but it's about problem solving and I've had years of that...
As for standard Maths, my mental kills improved enormously when I started playing Darts in the local.... ____________________ The above comment isn't necessarily the truth and anyone that says it is, is only correct if it's the truth or they're bigger than me. |
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Russian history i didn't care about it when i was in school. Didn't care during GCSE's. An all being well won't care about it in the future. ____________________ CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
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For me it was music lessons. I had no interest in what year Sibelius died, nor did I show a flair for the glockenspiel.
I didn't even know what type of music Mr Hurst the teacher liked but I'm guessing it didn't contain guitars.
A ripe young brain like mine would've appreciated how to string and tune an instrument, or learn about impedance and recording techniques, publishing, copyrights and organisations like the PRS.
I was a twat in music and religious education lessons until aged 13, then didn't bother with school much apart from the exams.
Hated art too, because I was crap with the mediums they used. Can't draw, paint, sculpt, throw clay.
Crap at metalwork and woodwork too but good at stabbing things.
I was too young to be at school, I apologise to my teachers. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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Howling Terror wrote: | For me it was music lessons. I had no interest in what year Sibelius died, nor did I show a flair for the glockenspiel.
I didn't even know what type of music Mr Hurst the teacher liked but I'm guessing it didn't contain guitars.
A ripe young brain like mine would've appreciated how to string and tune an instrument, or learn about impedance and recording techniques, publishing, copyrights and organisations like the PRS. |
Music was appalling. ~2002 and we were (meant to be) programming crappy keyboards, I used to produce something on the computer at home 20 minutes before school for my assignment
Howling Terror wrote: | Hated art too, because I was crap with the mediums they used. Can't draw, paint, sculpt, throw clay. |
Uggh yeah, experimentation and progression, they also wanted us to write about our work What I still don't get is how people in the final exam who didn't finish passed. A pal did half a shit painting of a flower (in 10 hours) and passed. In what world's half-a-job acceptable?
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Quadratic equations, never ever needed once!
Geometry, spent the vast majority of my working life as a draughtsman, never came up!
RE.
What was really annoying, all the unteachable, disruptive bastards, got to go fishing instead of certain lessons! I had to wait till school had finished for the day to do that!
Music, well I was taught by my dad, from an early age, how to read music and play the trumpet/cornet. By the time I was 13 I was one of the solo cornet players, (top dog), in a local brass band.
I headed off to high school, where I was told, surely you must need more lessons.
I was told to bring in some music which I would play for the brass tutor, I picked the trickiest piece I knew and played it. The tutor said don't come back!
The other music teacher wanted me to play in the school orchestra. In what I consider to be one of my best moments in high school, I told the music teacher that her orchestra "wasn't good enough", she didn't speak to me for the next 5 years, RESULT! ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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A mate of mine did some descriptive writing for English coursework, the teacher marked it as B and gave it back to him. He wrote a totally different piece, submitted that and got an A for it. I printed out a copy of his B graded work at the end of the year as the coursework deadline loomed and put my name on it and handed it in to the same teacher, who marked it as a C with my name on it.
I am terrible at art and never bothered with it, however the art teacher was fit. One week our homework was to draw a portrait of someone famous. I found a magazine cover with an A4 sized picture of Va'aiga Tuigamala on it. So I cheated, traced it on thin plain paper and handed it in. For the art teacher to criticise it and claim his ears and nose where not in the right place on his face. When I had traced a photograph of him.
The main thing I learned was not to trust teachers.
Similar thing happened at college when our Geography teacher got some of the previous years coursework out for us to look at. I found an A graded piece of work that was the same task I had been given. So I nicked it, copied it, added the bits in that the teacher had highlighted as missing. Got a C for that. |
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Learning how to wander round with a clip board and survey in a random village to pester people. ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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stinkwheel wrote: | For the record. I got a band 1 A grade (the highest possible and best in my class) in my higher English exam. I answered the literature paper on a book I had never read at all and on a poem I had read once, two years previously.
My teacher was furious because she knew full well I hadn't read any of the specified texts and had spent the year doodling in a jotter and voicing the oppinion that whole subject was an exercise in confidently expressed bullshit. |
Similarly, in the 5th form we were given the option to review a book of our own choosing, rather than the set curriculum. Despite that I had worked my way through The Agony & The Ecstasy on my own without anybody suggesting it, I decided to review "A Clockwork Orange" based on the MAD magazine cartoon I had seen rather than reading the actual book; I hadn't even seen the film (didn't get round to that for another 15 years).
My teacher (one of the livelier of the nuns) genuinely thought I had reviewed it, and started to call me out on certain questions, like did I really believe that the draconian way of treating Alex's ultra-V problem was a better way than traditional justice. But although I insisted I thought it would be, I made the mistake of admitting what I had done.
I think she was disappointed in my shallowness For a split second there was a glint in her eye that she had clearly thought she had an anarchist on her hands. Sadly I was just lazy and lame.
I went back about a year later and read the book, and then started using the slang words around school, but luckily that teacher never heard me using them. Some children younger than me got scared cos they immediately thought of Scary Clowns when I said something was Horrorshow Stephen King hadn't even written IT at that stage, so fuck knows where their scary clowns came from ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 280 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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