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Why American Education Sucks

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    it was before your time, young lady

    back when we had 9 planets

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited October 2007
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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    I never thought of it as being stubborn at the time.
    There were definitely kids who needed a lot more help than me. I was completely self-reliant in that class, most of the time because it was math homework, and math and science are my best subjects. The rest of the time, I didn't want to pull them away from the kids who really needed the help.
    And my papers all came back OK, so I didn't worry about it too much.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Nachos
    My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    guys who wants to write my english paper

    it's really easy and short and i don't care if it's good

    i just don't want to do it.

    i have 5 dollars and i can suck a golf ball through a garden hose

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    potatoe wrote: »
    it was before your time, young lady

    back when we had 9 planets
    oh yeah well

    wellll

    why aren't you on MSN/AIM eh

    because as soon as i log on i am admitting defeat and my paper doesn't get written at all

    at least this way i still get some work done

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    here's an example problem provided by the book

    1). Evaluate integral ((sqrt(9-x^2))/x^2 dx)

    let x = 3sinO where -pi/2 < O < pi/2 then dx=3 cos O dO and sqrt(9-x^2) = sqrt(9-9sin^2O) = sqrt(9cos^2O) = 3 |cosO| = 3cosO

    note that cosO > 0 because -pi/2 < O < pi/2

    thus the inverse substitution rule gives

    integral((sqrt(9-x^2))/x^2 dx) = integral(3cosO/9sin^2O * 3cosO dO)

    = integral(cos^2O/sin^2O d0) = integral(cot^2O dO)

    = integral(csc^2O - 1 dO)

    = -cotO - O + C

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  • Mr. ShineMr. Shine Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    My Very Excited Mother Just Stopped Under Neverland.

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    Yeah your alias says your captain Jean-Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets, 'cause he won't speak English anyway.
  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    potatoe wrote: »
    it was before your time, young lady

    back when we had 9 planets
    oh yeah well

    wellll

    why aren't you on MSN/AIM eh

    My excuse is I don't know if I have an msn id anymore.
    I never have used AIM.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Mr. Shine wrote: »
    My Very Excited Mother Just Stopped Under Neverland.

    Oh yeah that's way easier to remember

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  • Mr. ShineMr. Shine Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    BusterK wrote: »
    Mr. Shine wrote: »
    My Very Excited Mother Just Stopped Under Neverland.

    Oh yeah that's way easier to remember

    Your face.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    oh but you have to resubstitute x back into O

    so if x = 3sinO, then x/3 = sinO

    so you draw the triangle and figure out the cotangent

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    kaz, trig makes me so angry
    i just hate it

    if i had hulk abilities, trig would be the trigger

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    FUCK infinite series

    seriously, fuck them.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    trig ain't even a thing

    well, when you're doing calculus with trig it is a thing

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    tugga wrote: »
    FUCK infinite series

    seriously, fuck them.

    now you're thinking with portals

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    what

    infinite series are the most fun thing ever

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    trig subsitution in integration makes me :<

    but i had this english-as-a-second language teach me over the summer in a way that itll stick

    plus he pronounced it subibisitution :^:

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    the only math major in my class got a 56 on the midterm

    I got an 85

    teeee heeeeee

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    my current math prof is from ethiopia

    he is the nicest guy in the world
    he uses phrases like "oh my goodness" in a heavily accented voice when he can't find a working marker or messes up

    i would say he is like a black, male, ethiopian tfs

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    what

    infinite series are the most fun thing ever

    this is round three for calculus 3 for me, technically

    on paper its only the second time ive taken it, but i got a D in calc 2, then had the same retarded teacher for calc 3 and failed it. so over the summer i retook calc 2 at a community college in dallas, but it was the exact same material for calc 3 in oklahoma.

    and that teacher got fired and now i have a male teacher for my second attempt at calculus 3 and im soaring though it. male math teachers are way better that female math teachers.

    the infinite series exam we took for that first class, 3 people passed and the rest averaged about a 37% on that test. but this time around this professor is much better.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    i guess maybe i didn't need both black and ethiopian

    i don't know

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    my calc professor is (or was) awesome, before he went away since his wife had a baby and we got Boring McStereotype dude to replace him

    he had black chalk he'd use to write on the wall above the chalk board when he ran out of space, because he didn't want to erase anything and nobody behind the first row could see the bottom of the board

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    tugga wrote: »
    male math teachers are way better that female math teachers

    are you basing this on the one bad female math teacher you've had?

    because i've had some wonderful female math teachers that actually taught it very well

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    i love calculus so much

    it fascinates me

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    I despise calculus with every fiber of my being, despite that fact that my chosen career is pretty much nothing but applied calculus

    whoops

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    the only thing the SAT can measure aptitude of is my cock
    i fell asleep during the SAT and woke up with a boner

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    potatoe wrote: »
    it is for me

    and deemer said it's slow for her

    so, it's not an isolated incident

    Potatoe

    I'm not

    I'm not a girl

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    the only things in the SAT that have anything to do with college level skills are the math parts

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Redeemer wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    it is for me

    and deemer said it's slow for her

    so, it's not an isolated incident

    Potatoe

    I'm not

    I'm not a girl


    Next time try foreplay potatoe

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Redeemer wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    it is for me

    and deemer said it's slow for her

    so, it's not an isolated incident

    Potatoe

    I'm not

    I'm not a girl

    it's okay, i was referred to as a she earlier in the thread as well

    it happens to the best of us

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    but i've seen deemer's vajay jay

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited October 2007
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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    sometimes i just like to refer to deemer as a girl

    same with [noparse]<3[/noparse]

    i really have no reasoning behind it, it just behooves me to call them girls every so often

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    you guys are all a bunch of girls.

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    yeah well you're an ugly smelly boy

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    potatoe wrote: »
    tugga wrote: »
    male math teachers are way better that female math teachers

    are you basing this on the one bad female math teacher you've had?

    because i've had some wonderful female math teachers that actually taught it very well

    i have never had a good female math teacher

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    but jordyn
    we were talking about maths

    how do you explain that?

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I have to go to bed or something I think guys.

    South Dakota is exhausting. But I'm taking the brother out for Taco John's tomorrow.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I would also like to know how jordyn explains math

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