math is pervasive and inevitable.
the only people that can escape it in their professional lives are republican politicians.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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I like math quite a lot, but I don’t really use it in my job as a language teacher. I guess there’s a small amount of addition and division in grading, but there are also programs that automatically do that for you.
Gotta count heads for attendance, too.
Also time.
Nah, I teach adult immigrants, so if they don’t show up, that’s their business. As for time, I don’t know that I really consider that math.
Either way, counting and time are two things that republicans politicians also have to do, tallying up the votes in congress and figuring out exactly how long they can draw that process out. At some point, I suspect they’ll give up vote tallying, but we’re not there quite yet.
bruh
Fake funny maths:
When shit gets real:
What are you talking about? A biologist (re-)invented calculus!
It's interesting to see people who either weren't educated on a topic or maybe didn't really grasp its usefulness converge on the same solution.
I wonder if this author continued developing this method or if they were pointed towards some calculus and statistics textbooks after sharing this paper.
molecular biologists rolling their eyes
And on a more serious note, considering how much of science is doing admin, attempting to get grants, and data science, almost every scientist is very, intimately familiar with maths.
STOP IT PATRICK YOURE SCARING HIM!
data science
Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.
As a pedologists, stupid unit conversions are my specialty
I bet that's an unfortunate profession name to have these days.
Hey, I had to take 3 terms of calculus...
... twice.
serious big mood righ therr
just because i learned to do math doesn't mean I'm not still afraid of it 😭
Oh, another engineer...
Hi.
I wish I could say I'm not an engineer but I become the de-facto engineer and IT technician at every place I work 🤦♀️
I'm also flattered though. :]
Oh, IT adjacent areas are still full of math.
If you ever get curious, electrical engineering has lots and lots of convoluted procedures one can learn to avoid even more math... And civil engineering has a very cool "I can beat math with brute force and linear approximations all day long!" philosophy that could improve the lives of most people.
I have heard of this mystical engineering technique called "looking it up in a table" by which one avoids copious amounts of math
i take it back
what in the sci-fi ass bullshit...!?
Because inevitably, someone is gonna say it, I will take it upon myself to be that guy.
x = 3
*ahem*...
This is exactly the type of simple equation that always drove me nuts in school. I could take one look at that and my brain fucking just knows the answer. It takes me like 10 times as long to write it down to show my work (not that it is hard here, but my brain does not supply that part by default.) This is why I had to re-take Algebra 2. The way they made us do things just didn't work for my brain. When it does work, math can be fun, but usually the our teachers taught it made everything super dull. Maybe when my kids get there, they can teach me the new ways.
Did you take a lot of college level math courses? I too remember feeling like it was really tedious doing all the steps to rearrange an equation when I already knew the solution before I picked up my pencil. But that's all algebra is: the art of rearranging equations. I know what you mean, simple formulas like the ones above are frustrating because they're easy with to solve without any manipulation, but that's just the foundation where you gotta start. In later courses like calculus the math gets complicated enough that there's simply no getting it at a glance, it has to be rearranged and broken down in stages until you get to something like the formula above. Personally, if I hadn't learned those skills through doing the boring show-your-work-even-though-it's-trivia types of problems, I either would've figured it out on my own in later courses or washed out.
Why does it feel like someone is posting or creating a copypasta...
No, I'm just odd. :D
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