algebra

[Frank Booth]

One of the greatest mathematicians, Gottfried Leibniz, wrote to a great extent on military strategy. Mathematics is about problem solving. If you are good at that you can do a lot of things.

This is a great truth about how we as human being learn and solve problems. To think we thin, that is to say we use language and words to break things down. We come up with inverses and identities and things such as commutative property and linear equations. That is what math does, takes a complex problem and break it up into smaller parts and says for this part this will happen every single time, 100%.

Maybe if the teachers at the school I useto go to (Stupid christian private school) would have taken the time to explain it instead of "Here it is, good luck." I might not be so confused. If I ever get to do my job as a Marine, I mean my REAL job, I won't survive long enough to have to worry about that drone. The life expectancy of a Marine who gets to do his job the correct way is somewhere around 15 mins. There may be a lot of amazing technology in war today, but there will never be a replacement for a USMC Rifleman.

 

[Sgt.Saputo]

It's werid, I'm a mastermind at Algebra.. but I CANNOT do Geometry for my life.
It's just how people are, my best friend is terrible at algebra, I used to do all his homework for him, and I passed Algebra with a 98%. I passed Geometry with a 70%.
It's a simple thing, you just have to see through it and realize what your doing

After speaking with some friends we all agree that most of people's confusion with algebra comes from being taught the wrong way, or the confusing way. I know this is why I have trouble : / My algebra teacher didn't help those of us who were having trouble. She pretty much just played favorites with the geniuses I'm gonna try and re-learn algebra basics and see if it helps any, thanks for all of your' guys' input and thoughts

 

[Frank Booth]

Well if you have problems you cannot solve ask man. Most problems you solve once for the general case and you are done with them.

After speaking with some friends we all agree that most of people's confusion with algebra comes from being taught the wrong way, or the confusing way. I know this is why I have trouble : / My algebra teacher didn't help those of us who were having trouble. She pretty much just played favorites with the geniuses I'm gonna try and re-learn algebra basics and see if it helps any, thanks for all of your' guys' input and thoughts

 

[SingularPoint]

I sort of had the same problem, what you have to do is break the equation apart before putting it into the calculator