//One day our teacher would give us a problem and solve for X. No problem. But then, the next day, the teacher would give us another problem and X would equal SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! I mean, come on! We just solved for X yesterday! How can X be all these different numbers?!
Don't get me started on imaginary numbers. That's a racket if I've ever heard one. They're making up numbers, people!
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In my younger days I had a girlfriend who struggled with math (And that's probably why she started going out with me, come to think of it). I tried to help her get her head around algebra, and the x thing was a problem. Eventually we stopped using x and started using 'penguin'.
ReplyDeleteHang on a mo... was her name Sarah?
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I will never forget the maths worksheets at school called "matchbox algebra". No. They did not involve wee cars. The involved working out the number of matches in a box.
ReplyDeleteYou got to play with matches at school?
ReplyDeleteNo! That would be too dangerous.
ReplyDeleteIt was only hypothetical matches in the exercises...
Thanks guys... this all really cheered me up :)
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Which, oddly, reminds me of this: