I'm So Fucking Anal About Math (1 Viewer)

[Lovely_Cornchips]

I'm in school right now and one of my classes is a math one.
I LOVE math ok?
Therefore when it comes to percentages my favorite thing to fucking do is cross multiply with fractions to solve for X.

BUT they are trying to teach me a different way of doing it and I hate it.
I'm so used to the way I do it.

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[Harmony_Starz]

I despise that if u can solve it one way, WHO ARE THEY TO SAY NO

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

I despise that if u can solve it one way, WHO ARE THEY TO SAY NO

MY POINT EXACTLY. I'm old I can't relearn how to do math when my way works AND WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT ANYWAY!?!?!

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

Also, as a result, they want me to memorize 3 different forumulas. When I could just use ONE formula to answer any of these damn questions.

 

[Harmony_Starz]

Also, as a result, they want me to memorize 3 different forumulas. When I could just use ONE formula to answer any of these damn questions.

SO DAMN SENSELESS

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

SO DAMN SENSELESS

I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES HOW INSANE THIS IS!

(I love percentages in math and this is so annoying).

 

[Harmony_Starz]

I'M SO GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES HOW INSANE THIS IS!

(I love percentages in math and this is so annoying).

I LOVE DOING CERTAIN THINGS IN MATH A CERTAIN WAY BUT OTHERS WANT ME TO DO IT THE 'CORRECT' AND 'BETTER' WAY WHEN I FIND MY WAY TO BE FASTER AND EASIER FOR ME TO USE

 

[athenaaa]

I struggle with math so that would drive me absolutely insane. If you know how to do it one way why not just do it that way the whole time. Why learn a different way if it gets you the same answer regardless

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

I LOVE DOING CERTAIN THINGS IN MATH A CERTAIN WAY BUT OTHERS WANT ME TO DO IT THE 'CORRECT' AND 'BETTER' WAY WHEN I FIND MY WAY TO BE FASTER AND EASIER FOR ME TO USE

Look I adore math but literally THIS! If the way we do it SOLVES it why is it an ISSUE!?!?!

They wanted me to figure out how much sales were done if they had increased by 40% from 300,000 the year before.

I literally just made it X/300,000 = 40/100 got 40x=12,000,000 then divided by 40 on both sides to get 120,000 then just added that to 300,000.

They wanted me to turn 40% into a mixed decimal so 1.4 then times that by 300,000. It seems simpler in theory but it just seems annoying to have to convert everything to decimals to solve it when I can use fractions and cross multiplication while solving for X.

I don't want to have to convert and know the proper formula between P=RxB or B=P/R or R=P/B.

 

[Harmony_Starz]

Look I adore math but literally THIS! If the way we do it SOLVES it why is it an ISSUE!?!?!

They wanted me to figure out how much sales were done if they had increased by 40% from 300,000 the year before.

I literally just made it X/300,000 = 40/100 got 40x=12,000,000 then divided by 40 on both sides to get 120,000 then just added that to 300,000.

They wanted me to turn 40% into a mixed decimal so 1.4 then times that by 300,000. It seems simpler in theory but it just seems annoying to have to convert everything to decimals to solve it when I can use fractions and cross multiplication while solving for X.

I don't want to have to convert and know the proper formula between P=RxB or B=P/R or R=P/B.

I can totally understand that, I'm not stupid

People think their way is the better way, just leave us all alone

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

I can totally understand that, I'm not stupid

People think their way is the better way, just leave us all alone

You're all good. I enjoy math a little too much.

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

I struggle with math so that would drive me absolutely insane. If you know how to do it one way why not just do it that way the whole time. Why learn a different way if it gets you the same answer regardless

This is how I feel. Though I come from a place of enjoying math a lot.

 

[athenaaa]

This is how I feel. Though I come from a place of enjoying math a lot.

Please teach me your ways. Firstly how to get the numbers to stop jumping places

 

[Lovely_Cornchips]

Please teach me your ways. Firstly how to get the numbers to stop jumping places

Do you have dyscalculia?

 

[athenaaa]

Do you have dyscalculia?

What is dyscalculia?

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Do you have dyscalculia?

It sucks.

 

[StirFriedPanda]

I once got a zero on a final question worth ten points because we were supposed to solve it with matrices but i did it by dividing by a common denominator. I was so mad. the damn answer was right, who cares how I got it¡!!!!!!!!

 

[Ahsoka]

Look I adore math but literally THIS! If the way we do it SOLVES it why is it an ISSUE!?!?!

They wanted me to figure out how much sales were done if they had increased by 40% from 300,000 the year before.

I literally just made it X/300,000 = 40/100 got 40x=12,000,000 then divided by 40 on both sides to get 120,000 then just added that to 300,000.

They wanted me to turn 40% into a mixed decimal so 1.4 then times that by 300,000. It seems simpler in theory but it just seems annoying to have to convert everything to decimals to solve it when I can use fractions and cross multiplication while solving for X.

I don't want to have to convert and know the proper formula between P=RxB or B=P/R or R=P/B.

It’s kind of wild because I don’t think I’ve ever used fractions to solve for percentages. It just seems like so much extra work But I do understand being used to one method and feeling like the other method is annoying because you’re used to the one you use already. I do have to say though that once you learn this method you may find yourself using for daily tasks just because it’s easier to do with no pen and paper handy because it’s just normal multiplication, any phone can do it in a second for you. Or maybe you won’t, but I can see it being possible

 

[StirFriedPanda]

What is dyscalculia?

It's like dyslexia but specific to numbers and patterns.

 

[Ahsoka]

I once got a zero on a final question worth ten points because we were supposed to solve it with matrices but i did it by dividing by a common denominator. I was so mad. the damn answer was right, who cares how I got it¡!!!!!!!!

Devils advocate but maybe it has to do with progression? Idk the context of what you were learning but if it’s a lead up to something using matrices that you can’t do with common denominators, will the method you use advance your ability to understand the basic information needed for the future stuff? But that does depend on the class and what you learn in the next class and such