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June 4, 2008 at 2:53 pm

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General Lighting

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Auntie wrote:

The British are uniquely happy to admit being bad at maths, says a report. Why is that and how can attitudes change?

I’m not sure about the BBC’s sums on £10k extra for a Maths A Level though, I have one and certainly don’t earn 10k extra because of it…

that said there is a video of a teacher explaining long division on the following report, I have to confess I had forgotten how to do this, looked at the first frame of the video and tried to work it out but couldn’t:cry:. (I may watch the teacher lady later to remind me…)

Have never quite understood calculus either…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7435023.stm
June 4, 2008 at 4:50 pm

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I thought I was crap at maths to be honest, but at work the other day I went through the interview process to try and review the new interview format and they told me I scored highly on the maths test :you_crazy

Maybe I was wrong and my maths is not that bad then 😉

Then again if your talking that stupidly hard maths they taught you at school, I cant do that! I have no idea what its all about :crazy_diz Then again I don’t think I have ever used any of the really complex stuff we were expected to learn…
June 4, 2008 at 6:49 pm

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rachus

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I’m shit at maths, i know the basics, i try but generally id rather spend my time understanding more important things … i cant think of an example.. i will get back to you…
June 4, 2008 at 9:25 pm

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MisterDuck

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im shit at maths, i was shit at any rigid academic subject

i had the kind of intelligence where i could study things in history and english and make my opinion and interpretation known etc. but any subject which was rigid and didnt allow individuality i was awful in.
June 4, 2008 at 9:47 pm

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lilmstrixta

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I am absolutly rubbish at maths not my strong point at all
June 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm

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I’m ok at practical maths. I can’t remember simultaneous or logarithmic equations either though. Or Trigonometry.
June 4, 2008 at 10:14 pm

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Tank Girl

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me to,
was in the ‘bottom stream’ for it and could only get a C as highest grade on our GCSE’s as they gave us a different paper or marking system

however I wasnt that fussed as was in ‘top stream’ for other subjects I enjoyed and was actually interested in

saying that it’s not something I’ve ever thought myself to be proud about……..??
June 4, 2008 at 11:05 pm

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globalloon

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i was mad good at maths at school. at age 6 i was completing maths problems that would have got me a decent pass at GCSE

at 14 I was designing formulas that my maths teacher said were more complex than his maths degree dissertation.

now i have to refer to the internet to work out percentages and stuff (I have to keep fairly complex accounts for work) but i still have an ability to ‘visualise’ figures before i’ve done the maths
June 5, 2008 at 12:23 pm

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JamesBong

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General Lighting;220449 wrote:

I’m not sure about the BBC’s sums on £10k extra for a Maths A Level though, I have one and certainly don’t earn 10k extra because of it…

that said there is a video of a teacher explaining long division on the following report, I have to confess I had forgotten how to do this, looked at the first frame of the video and tried to work it out but couldn’t:cry:. (I may watch the teacher lady later to remind me…)

Have never quite understood calculus either…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7435023.stm

I got a grade A in ‘A’ level Maths in 1996 and my employer doesn’t give me an extra £10K, lol.

BTW Glo, calculus at A level stardard is lemom squeezy. As a mod, could you put a ‘Maths’ section on the forum and I can go over the basics of calculus there?
June 5, 2008 at 12:29 pm

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JamesBong

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa8nHKPZ5k
June 5, 2008 at 12:31 pm

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JamesBong

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lilmstrixta;220558 wrote:

I am absolutly rubbish at maths not my strong point at all

Your English needs a bit of revision also.
June 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm

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Angel

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JamesBong;220635 wrote:

Your English needs a bit of revision also.

That wasn’t very nice said :owned:
June 5, 2008 at 12:40 pm

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lilmstrixta

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JamesBong;220635 wrote:

Your English needs a bit of revision also.

Yeah thanks for pointing that out, maybe your manners need some revision.
June 5, 2008 at 12:49 pm

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spangle

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At school I was good at maths, was in the top set took my GCSE early and got an A without any revision, but I look at it now and it’s like a foreign language!!
June 5, 2008 at 12:59 pm

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General Lighting

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BioTech;220561 wrote:

I’m ok at practical maths. I can’t remember simultaneous or logarithmic equations either though. Or Trigonometry.

pretty much the same although I can do the basics of trigonometry if working out something like the dimensions/volume of a space (such as how much servers/equipment I can fit into it).

TBH in my case a lot of it is attention span.

Whilst I do understand the basics of calculus I could never concentrate long enough to do a lot of the exercises /
problems.

What I do need to do sometime is brush up on the maths involved with such things as digital signal processing and computer programming (such as how computers store floating point numbers, another thing I have never quite grasped)
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