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Title: Math Kills Trees
Post by: blackhole on June 21, 2008, 03:46:40 pm
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We took a lot of notes in math this year :P
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Droid803 on June 21, 2008, 03:48:02 pm
Yeah, I have a binder full too...not as much as that though.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Snail on June 21, 2008, 04:00:05 pm
Most of mine wasn't notes but exercises.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 21, 2008, 04:34:19 pm
I don't write notes in Math Class :P
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 21, 2008, 04:35:42 pm
Quote from: haloboy100 on June 21, 2008, 04:34:19 pm
I don't write notes in Math Class :P
See? Some of us still try to preserve nature.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 21, 2008, 04:41:13 pm
Which is why I quite literally use my LCD screen to heat my room in winter.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Blue Lion on June 21, 2008, 04:44:28 pm
Do you have just the picture of the papers without the text?
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 21, 2008, 04:45:05 pm
You can just take it out in MS paint...
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: CP5670 on June 21, 2008, 04:49:22 pm
I took sparse notes in math classes and my handwriting is small enough that I could typically fit a semester's worth of notes onto one or two pages. I always did the homework on a computer as well. (still has to be printed, but it takes up a lot less pages :D)
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 21, 2008, 07:59:46 pm
I rarely take notes, only if forced by the teacher. And I always get 95+. Go me.

I wish I had a nice LCD monitor to heat my room with. :(
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 21, 2008, 09:32:21 pm
Quote from: colecampbell666 on June 21, 2008, 07:59:46 pm
I rarely take notes, only if forced by the teacher. And I always get 95+. Go me.
Ditto.

Quote from: colecampbell666 on June 21, 2008, 07:59:46 pm
I wish I had a nice LCD monitor to heat my room with. :(
As well as the accompying monster computer with overclocked CPU, wii, and crap-ass modem.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: tinfoil on June 21, 2008, 10:12:33 pm
Notes - who cares - 85% is good enough for me.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Titan on June 22, 2008, 08:32:19 am
i had the teachers aid takes notes for me, as i had trouble paying attention (seriously, it's not an excuse) but i still got an 81% in my 9th grade math (i'm in 7th) i just wish there was an honors science. the 7th grade teacher gives s that many papers about everyclass. each. not counting homework. i'm serious.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: tinfoil on June 22, 2008, 10:20:14 am
Bah 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade math - their all the same boring crap. grade 9 science is far more interesting.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 22, 2008, 10:25:16 am
Quote from: tinfoil on June 22, 2008, 10:20:14 am
Bah 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade math - their all the same boring crap. grade 9 science is far more interesting.
I'd have to agree, but I'd rather math.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Droid803 on June 22, 2008, 12:14:43 pm
Well, it can't be as retarded as the English curriculum where you do the exact same thing (with different books) for five years straight. Never learned a thing.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: CP5670 on June 22, 2008, 12:42:45 pm
The thing with math is that you pretty much only do the boring crap until at least the upper undergraduate level, so most people never see anything interesting in the subject.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Snail on June 22, 2008, 12:47:15 pm
Quote from: Droid803 on June 22, 2008, 12:14:43 pm
Well, it can't be as retarded as the English curriculum where you do the exact same thing (with different books) for five years straight. Never learned a thing.
Yeah, and then suddenly you start learning loads of new crap in the last 2 years.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Blue Lion on June 22, 2008, 12:51:29 pm
And then they teach it all again in college
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 22, 2008, 01:10:02 pm
I just find it pathetically easy. I love math. None of that "creativity" or "opinion" bull**** involved :D
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Droid803 on June 22, 2008, 01:20:31 pm
Quote from: haloboy100 on June 22, 2008, 01:10:02 pm
I love math. None of that "creativity" or "opinion" bull**** involved :D
QFT
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 22, 2008, 02:00:10 pm
My English teacher last year was superb, we actually wrote stuff of consequence. This year we wrote tiny poems and ****, and never once did anything more than 2 pages. (unless you count some BS magazine project)
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Spicious on June 23, 2008, 08:34:41 am
Quote from: Blue Lion on June 22, 2008, 12:51:29 pm
And then they teach it all again in college
And of course you find out everything from school was taught poorly or incorrectly, in calculus at least.

Quote from: haloboy100 on June 22, 2008, 01:10:02 pm
I just find it pathetically easy. I love math. None of that "creativity" or "opinion" bull**** involved :D
Unless you're trying to prove something new.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 23, 2008, 09:04:32 am
What're you trying to prove, Mr. Satan?
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Unknown Target on June 23, 2008, 11:46:18 am
Math ****ing hurts.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: tinfoil on June 23, 2008, 12:37:27 pm
Math is boring as hell. It actually makes my head hurt.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: castor on June 23, 2008, 03:32:24 pm
Well let it. Its the most powerful tool humankind has in its hands, it should have some effect on you :D
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: tinfoil on June 23, 2008, 03:35:40 pm
Fine.
Why don't you do 3 pages of calculating the surface area and volume of compound solids that look like they were put together by a 5 year old with blocks, balls, toilet paper rolls and effing superglue :mad:
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 23, 2008, 04:33:18 pm
It's easy.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: tinfoil on June 23, 2008, 04:35:22 pm
... but tedious and boring as hell - at least science is interesting
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: CP5670 on June 23, 2008, 07:13:13 pm
I don't blame you. As I said, they don't teach any interesting math in grade school, or in many undergraduate classes for that matter. Real math actually has little in common with what they do at that level.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Flipside on June 23, 2008, 07:58:22 pm
I'm still trying to pluck up the courage to start learning 3D Maths, it's been nearly two decades since I last looked at a maths problem....
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: NGTM-1R on June 24, 2008, 01:53:39 am
Kara is best at maths.

At least, for quotes about maths.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 24, 2008, 06:23:38 am
I thought kara was a chemist?
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: haloboy100 on June 24, 2008, 09:25:20 am
Math and Science go hand and hand.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 24, 2008, 09:34:54 am
Not really. Sure you need to know math for science, but not as in-depth as say, a mathematician.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Spicious on June 24, 2008, 09:43:58 am
Care to try some modern physics without a good grasp of maths?
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 24, 2008, 09:52:37 am
No. I'm talking about chemistry, which kara has a degree in.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: CP5670 on June 24, 2008, 11:51:27 am
It depends on what exactly you're doing in chemistry. You may be right about experimental work. On the other hand, I know some people working in theoretical and computational chemistry, which is all based on PDEs and numerical methods for solving them.
Title: Re: Math Kills Trees
Post by: Flipside on June 24, 2008, 11:56:40 am
You'll certainly learn how to play around with the number 6.02 x 1023 ;)