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Response to msongs (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 31, 2012, 03:37 AM

37. plenty of jobs require you to find an unknown quantity. like a number of hospital jobs, for example

algebra has real life uses. but at least in my case, it was taught by math people in a way that made sense to math people but totally befuddled non-math folks like my younger self. and being a dumb younger self, i faked it to barely pass, telling myself "I'll never need this".

But it turned out i did. and it also turned out i grasped it (parts of it) very easily when i understood it in terms of real-life situations rather than all those weird symbols and concepts (i got 'new math' & i just turned off when it didn't make sense).

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