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Originally posted by Pozeal
... when am I ever going to have anything to do with the female reproductive system and periods...
Possibly if/when you have a female partner person.  Health was a rather silly class, though. Some people would just sit there and giggle uncontrollably because they were embarrassed, others would just crack dirty jokes the whole class, and then the rest were just kind of going '... well, this is dumb.' The way they teach that stuff is kinda.. bad, but I don't really know how else they could teach it. heh.
We had this one lady come in as a guest speaker thing, and she took spermicide and spread it all over her hands after describing its uses, saying it was a good moisturizer, and then went to shake people's hands after an activity. Those people looked at her like she had three heads, and avoided her hands. 
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Just to let you kids know, you're supposed to show your work to prove that you properly understand what you are doing. Otherwise, anybody looking at your answer will have no idea how you arrived at it, possibly no idea if it's correct, and definitely no idea where you made your mistake if there was one; nobody can help you learn from your mistakes if you can't show where you made them.
I get that, but what I don't get is that some teachers dock marks if you don't do the proof the way they want you to. If you get the right answer, and your method is sound, why does it matter?
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My class schedule always listed a lunch period, and somehow I had a lunch teacher??
The ever-on-topic thing I learned in Health was how to avoid being taken advantage of by shady marketing.
Math can be very useful if taught usefully. I'm surprised more programmers don't realize things like, say... you can find the intersecting point between two line segments (if any) by transforming (translating and rotating) one line segment around the other, making the first at the origin on the horizontal axis, and finding the X-intercept of the other one. Saves complex matrix calculations and stuff.
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Originally posted by Aiya
I get that, but what I don't get is that some teachers dock marks if you don't do the proof the way they want you to. If you get the right answer, and your method is sound, why does it matter?
Chances are, they are trying to teach multiple methods to solving that kind of problem. You don't really need to know every method to solving a particular problem, but it can certainly help in some situations; one method is often easier than the other depending on the specifics of the problem.
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My math teacher? He tried to teach us the way he knew how to do it, not how the book said to(although that came as a preview sometimes). He was able to teach us new, unique, easy ways of doing things, and I even teached him a bit over the year. (Like a quicker way to calculate Sigmas using the seq( function instead of listing every single one into L1.)
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Originally posted by Aiya
Originally posted by Pozeal
... when am I ever going to have anything to do with the female reproductive system and periods...
Possibly when you have a female partner person.
I highly doubt I'd ever choose a female as a life partner.
Anyways, math is fairly easy for me... when I don't procrastinate my homework.
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Originally posted by Pozeal
Anyways, math is fairly easy for me... when I don't procrastinate my homework.
Not sure what grade you are in, but I know that most people consider math fairly simple until the 12th grade and university (slope of a line, quadratic functions, logarithms, etc.) I guess Calculus could be considered the true 'turning point' in mathematics.
...which, by the way, pretty much proved that my future in math is not very bright. I think I'll stick with the sciences instead.
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