me jane 0 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I wish I'd known this at school. Maths Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I'm shite at maths, numbers just confuse me. They don't make any sense to me. I much prefer words Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Just be careful not to confuse calculation speed with intelligence. I am glad someone invented calculators so that I don’t have to do all kinds of shite calculations in my mind. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 even with calculators, I'm all confused, dunno if I've done the right calculation, dunno if the answer is right.....I hate numbers Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Originally Posted By: tsondaboy Just be careful not to confuse calculation speed with intelligence. Good point but not "intelligence" as much as "understanding". Knowing the rules doesn't mean you understand why they work - but that's the same for anything. I'm sure there are people who have memorised that 6x8=48 but don't truly understand why. Whatever mathematical formula we are given there will be some people who just memorise it and others who take it apart and make it their own. Those rules would have been fun to know cos lower school we weren't allowed calculators and once we'd finished the maths on the board we were allowed to play. I wanted to play!! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Arithmetic isn't maths. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 why? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Because the four functions require no conceptual ability. Maths has x in it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 well either way I'm hopeless at both!! At least i can do simple arithmetic, so money etc is fine, but even playing darts, I would take an age counting the score and what the quickest combo is to finish Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Originally Posted By: soubriquet Because the four functions require no conceptual ability. Maths has x in it. If you couldn't do arithmetic there would be lots of bits with x in that you couldn't do, it's all maths: Number, Space, Geometry, Data, Measurement, Algebra and probably a whole lot more. (IMHO ) Link to post Share on other sites
echineko 1 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 When I hear movie sometimes I hear "math" and sometimes "maths" - what is difference? I was not so good at math at school. My favorite subject was Japanese and English. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 americans call it math, British English tends to say maths. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 echineko, I can tutor you in a lot of maths. Just give me the numbers. It's actually all about visualization. I read a book about it when I was like 7 and 2 months. I can do ARITHMETIC by jsut looking at the numbers. NEVER SAY to youself 3 times 3 is 9, that is wasting your time. Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 Originally Posted By: thursday NEVER SAY to youself 3 times 3 is 9, that is wasting your time. True. Blind memorisation is not going to help much past school. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 no, it's not taking the time to say it in your head like you were taught in primary school. Look, visaulize and summize. It takes about 1/10th of a sec. Link to post Share on other sites
Ewok 2 1 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver I'm shite at maths, numbers just confuse me. They don't make any sense to me. I much prefer words Words confuse me. I much prefer numbers. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 You're my kind of girl, Ewok. Unfortunately, I'm 30 years too old, and well and truly taken. Sorry, you've missed your chance Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I invented squares of numbers ending in 5s. Actually, I always knew I learned it somewhere, but can't remember where or when. I've known that forever. That was a cool site. Cheers, Mejane. I remember numbers like mad. The order of them, the displacement of them. I play math games in my head all the time. If I see a phone number or hotel room, or address, I'll cancel it out to zero, or make it equal something else within it's vicinity. In regards to numbers, I'm mildly OC. When I was like 7, I over-heard my mom give her bank account number over the phone. sometime later (maybe months), she was on the phone again but didn't have access to it. I heard her say she didn't have it. Then, I told her. And when her jaw dropped and questioned me as to why I remembered it, I told her the truth. And that's when I learned it's not normal to remember strings of numbers. And sadly, with modern technology, we never have to type numbers anymore. I wish that ease of memory translated to my japanese voacabulary. Then maybe memory would be conducive with intelligence. Link to post Share on other sites
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