question: what the heck does algebra help with?!

[kinipela]

i absolutly HATE algebra, and i just dont see the point of it. fill me in on what it is ACCUALLY good 4.

[jazzmosis]

RE: question: what the heck does algebra help with?!

It's typically used for contstruction. And pretty much anything scientific (on a practical level).

[waffydude]

You'll need it if you want to continue to Calculus and get into any math-related field, such as engineering, computer science, or physics.

Plus you can apply it to lots of real world problems and it can make your life much, much easier if you can express things algebraically to save time.

Just give it time, you may see what I mean later.

[The_Q]

Economics.

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[tnyhwk900]

It amazes me how people my age can be so stupid. I'm currently taking algebra, and not only is it incredibly easy, it's also interesting and fun to work with.

[Verruckter]

It amazes me how people my age can be so stupid. I'm currently taking algebra, and not only is it incredibly easy, it's also interesting and fun to work with.

That's what I thought. Until I met this year's math teacher. Oh God, someone kill HIM (or at least make him lose his job). He made us all hate algebra.

But to get back to the topic, algebra can be useful in lots of situations. Unconsciously, you use it probably everyday but you don't realize it.

[gardyloo]

if 20 people can ask 143214 stupid questions in 352.2 hours, how many people would it take at the same rate to get guh-

[Squeek]

Want to know something important?

All maths through Algebra II are relevant. Meaning your arithmetic through 8th grade, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II are all necessary. Algebra II is where it starts breaking down, then Trig and Calc are where the information is just irrelevant.

Seriously, I even ask programmers that graduated college and they tell me that all the math they learned was useless or Googleable.

(Whoa, Googleable... That's totally my word now. I'm putting a copyright on it)

~Squeek

[QreepyBORIS]

Calc has serious applications to physics, and by proxy, programming with physics.

[Squeek]

Yes, but Physics is useless as well.

Don't you see the connection? There is absolutely no need to know the inverse trig functions' derivatives or how to implicitly differentiate an equation with respect to theta or any crap like that.

And the best part is, should you find a purpose for it in the future, you won't be tested on it. Instead, you'll be using a computer likely to be connected to this thing known as the intarwebs that can tell you the answers to every one of your questions.

Higher-level math = fail.

~Squeek

[QreepyBORIS]

Fail, unless you work at Valve or any other awesome company.

[The_Q]

Again, advanced calc is necessary for certain parts of economics.

I need math.

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[Squeek]

Q, could you elaborate?

I really want to find a legitimate purpose for Calculus.

~Squeek

[The_Q]

Ask Stephen E. Landsburgh. He says that advanced calc is necessary for some of the more complex models.

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[vashthestampede0987]

Lol I'm planning to take math only to the Calculus level through out highschool. I love math but this year my teacher has made me lose interest in it...Actually all of my teachers have done that so I have been slowly slippin further from academic performance and drifiting closer to the hitting on of girls during class and it actually working. I love math and I think its fun with the right teacher. Oh and if you don't plan on taking courses in life like engineering and physics and what-not(too lazy to be elaborate) then math really isn't needed past the calculus level unless you want to further your education upon it.