I think that the most important mathematical advancement we humans have made since the begining of time is "the top 10" list. They can tell you anything: who is dressed well, what is really cool about a movie, what books you need to read, which LOST episodes are considered the best...It's all about personal preferences meeting the public. Teaching others what you consider to be important.
In honor of my love of lists, I am starting a new one : Reasons Why AP Calculus Will Never Help Me In Life...
10. Our culture has numbers. We have letters. We are perfectly fine with keeping them seperate, thank you. I don't believe the two should mix...
9. The textbook for the course weighs more than I do...the book is a beast! How will it help me if I can't pick it up?
8. In ten years from now, I won't be standing in the grocery store using derivatives and chain rules and mathematical theorums to figure the cost of my spighetti-o's...multiplication, maybe. Calculus...not even a little bit.
7. I really, really don't want to be a Calculus teacher.
6. I also really really really don't plan on being an engineer...so, that takes out the only other calculus related career.
5. Just thinking of Calculus gives me the heeby-jeebies. I can't spend the rest of my life in perpetual fear.
4. The likelyhood of anyone asking me for help in calculus is slim...I'm not going to be walking down the street when a hobo comes up and asks "whats the definition of the limit of infinity concerning the derivative of x, or delta x as its known?". At least I hope not...
3. Even with it's highly religious, mythological, and logical approach, LOST doesn't require its viewers to know the math to watch the show....(but if it did, I might just put calculus back into my life...)
2. The major I hope to go in is entirely ENGLISH related (Modern American Lit), so if I end up getting a PhD, Calculus won't do me ANY GOOD.
1. And, my favorite, on the last test, 16 out of 20 kids in our class failed with a 50 or below. The other four were as follows: 2 A's (both going into engineering ), 1 B , and 1 C. Guess which portion I was in...
Ugh. Why does Math have to be so darn difficult.
Deneece
aka lostie108
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I'm an Engineer!
Yeah, other than that, Calculus is pretty much pointless.
I totally agree. Calculus, who needs it? (With the exception of Calculus teachers and MoltyBen up there)
A new mini-cast goes live Monday night...sorry for the constant procrastination when it comes to uploading shows. We'll be much more consistent when season 4 starts.
Anyway, love the list..keep the posts coming.
-Brian
Oh yeah, if you need help, I could try to help. I'm good like that.
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