The Journey of My Life

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Not understanding math

Today is not my day, I'm starting this online class and I'm not getting it....Why??? I thought this time it would be easier, but it is not. The teacher was talking about stuff that sounded like chinese to me.....

Hopefully tomorrow it will be better. I have office hours tomorrow, I'll have to start attending those otherwise I'll fall behind, again

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Good tutorial on the quadratic equation formula

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From http://mathcracker.com/quadratic_equation_solver.php

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Quadratic Equation Calculator online, input the parameters of the quadratic equation and find the roots using the quadratic equation formula

Very good quadratic solver, it even provides a graphical depiction of the solutions. It indicates whether the roots are real or imaginary. All you have to do is to input the equation coefficients

It would be perfect if it also included the use of the quadratic formula. Maybe we should e-mail the webmaster to request that feature

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Funny as hell.....some kids won't hesitate to call 911 for math help

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MATH: WHO NEEDS IT?

For generations of students, the complaint has been "Why do I need to learn math?  I'll never use it in the real world.  I want to be a fireman or a cowboy or a news reporter and they don't need to know how to do math. Today, with the common use of pocket calculators and even calculators on the cell phones which are carried by school age children, it's a better question than ever before. Why should a person learn the formulas and memorize the times tables of the traditional math course? Is there any point to the effort involved in memorization of formulas and procedures when you only need to punch in a symbol to receive a digital answer to the math question?

 There are some responses to the question which may require some maturity to understand.  No one likes to memorize facts; however starting with basics is the start of most fields of learning.  It is possible that reversing the order of math studies might do much toward helping students to understand why the study of math can be helpful.

 The first reason why math studies are helpful is that they force the student to read and understand the question or problem. The student learns to organize their thinking in order to understand the true dimensions of the problem. The best knowledge of formulas cannot tell you how to apply the formula.  For that, you need to be able to train your thinking to recognize the important elements of a situation and secondly to understand how to apply known facts or procedures in order to find the answer to the question. To be able to lay out the parameters of the math problem will help a student learn the same procedure for other fields of study as well.

 In addition to learning how to organize your thinking due to math, you will need to understand how to apply formulas and procedures in order to come up with the answer to the questions. In short, unless you understand something about how math works, you won't have any idea how to enter numbers into a computer. While the actual calculation performed by a calculator does greatly simplify even routine problem solving, to raise three generations of students with no understanding of how to use a calculator to determine which of two items in different sized containers costs more is a travesty of the concept of mathematics education. Many adults do not understand the concept of reconciling a bank statement, or calculating true cost of an adjustable rate mortgage.

 This state of affairs in American education is troublesome at best.  Even the tests which are provided in order to monitor the progress of students show a continual decline in understanding of math. Criticism of teachers for 'teaching to the test' has been widespread, but in the case of math, it is difficult to see how logic and inductive reasoning which are required to solve most real life math problems can be considered teaching to the test.

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An old friend

Today I met an old friend down at the mall. It was great to see him after a long time since we met in college. He told me he went back to college, he attended 2 years to an online degree. Sometimes I think I should do the same, not that enjoyed my time in college too much, but the workforce market is very competitive nowadays. Don't want to, but probably I'll have to look into one of those programs. Main problem is the cost

Is there any financial help for online credits? I would appreciate if someone would let me know.

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I welcome everybody

Welcome and please feel free to stick around. In this journal I'll write about my life, about what has happened to me in the last years, my life in college, my personal life, my work life.