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#31 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:46 pm

oh now now... problem

philp · #32 Post by **philp** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:54 pm

2005 wrote:....you get the problem, use the formulas and prove your answer. That has nothing to do with your opinion and thats how i like it.

Except when you have to provide a certain amount of steps used to arrive at the answer. My geometry teacher and I used to go around about that shit. If I could prove my answer in 6 steps, why did I have to show 11 steps? The bitch!!

#33 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:54 pm

was ur proof complete?

Guest · #34 Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:03 pm

lol its like

1+1 = ?

In my opinion, it equals to ________

#35 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:31 pm

... dragon what type of math are u taking?

Q12321 · #36 Post by **Q12321** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:54 pm

Oh yes, proofs in geometry. Ahh, the memories of geometry...

philp · #37 Post by **philp** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:08 pm

palmboy5 wrote:was ur proof complete?

By my standards, yes. But because I could do the math faster in my head than she could write it on the board, it pissed her off. Consequently, it slowed me down trying to show her how to properly solve the equation. That's when I learned to hate math classes. I still love math, but can't stand the teachers who are so narrow minded as to not accept a new way.

#38 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 9:16 pm

to accept a new way is to be less lazy. for them to do a new way would mean they can no longer follow the teacher's book entirely for their planned assignments.

2005 · #39 Post by **2005** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:17 am

Well the reason so many of them like those big long proofs is because they can narrow out your mistake in problems. If they didn't have you go 100% past what you need to solve the problem then they'd have to assume what your mistake was if it couldnt be found int what you provided on paper. One of our teachers was like that and she was even so simple minded that any formula she didnt know of didnt work. My friends mom is a math prof at a college and she gave us a whole bunch of formulas for algebra. They worked every single time and my friend and I were done with every test and assingment in half the time we were alloted. She accused us of cheating, we showed her these formulas that wouldn't work and demonstraited them for her. It was like educating a 2x4

philp · #40 Post by **philp** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 9:53 am

2005 wrote:It was like educating a 2x4

I think we had the same teacher!!!

Guest · #41 Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:30 am

#42 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:52 am

dragon what math class u taking?

Guest · #43 Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:08 pm

i dunno

#44 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:13 pm

.... imma think prealgebra then

Guest · #45 Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:23 pm