Seeing someone on Reddit saying that they never used the maths (specifically, “pi”) they learned at school, and that it was pointless learning it.
I have used trigonometry and calculus in my everyday life to make short work of problems, mostly relating to DIY. If you reach middle age without m any this stuff, then I can almost guarantee that you have done several things the hard way when you didn’t need to.
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Eleanor LNR Blair
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Consider a park which has two paths crossing at right angles. At the junction there is also a circular path going round the outside - like this: ⊕
I used an approximation to pi to confirm that if going straight on it's shorter to use the straight paths, but if going left or right the curved paths are shorter. 😀
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Unknown parent • •@Maddie T It’s not “needed”. You can pretty much always do it without.
It’s just that you can usually do it faster or easier or better with.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I’ve used very little of the math they tried to teach me and forgotten an awful lot of it:(
But my opinion wasn’t that it was a pointless thing to be taught, but that school did one hell of a bad job at doing it:( At one point I was good at maths (at least compared to my peers) and slowly they sucked every bit of fun and wonder out of it:(
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