AnneLine Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I was working as a legal secretary on the 23rd floor of an office building in an earthquake in 1989.... brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrestia Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1334023139' post='2415219'] I was 2 when you took algebra. [/quote] Your arithmetic skills rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 I wasn't yet born when you took algebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 egads, now I feel old [i]and[/i] stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Lil Red, I get what you mean. I am wondering if we should start a thread 'are you more algebraic than the average 15 year old' and let the youngus skunk us! If it ever starts I am doomed, dooomed dooooooomed after about 3 days... I can explain the theory... at about a 6th grade level. Make you feel any better, Sr. Marie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) AnneLine, I must admit that I'm a bit envious of your skill. My mom taught me algebra in third grade. I'm now a senior math major, and I'm probably going to end up teaching a couple years down the line. I have NO IDEA how to teach the basic concepts, because I no longer have a grasp on what the basic concepts are, let alone how to explain them or even the difficulties inherent to them. I think, sometimes, that it's not good to seek to master something, because by doing so, you lose sight of the trees for all the forest. I don't feel like a mathematician, being unable to help nurture another's skill. To be a good math teacher I must, I think, unlearn everything and relearn alongside my students. Thank you for your witness, because I know I, for one, benefit from it. Edited April 10, 2012 by Deus_te_Amat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister Marie Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 When I was in high school I had a wonderful math teacher... the best thing she ever did was make us color code everything we did. Each step of each problem was done in a different color with the problem on one side of the paper and the explanation opposite it... It just made so much sense. I still remember it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Take Calc I, II, III, and then Differential Equations. Algebra is now easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [quote name='eagle_eye222001' timestamp='1334028975' post='2415254'] Take Calc I, II, III, and then Differential Equations. Algebra is now easy. [/quote] How 'bout a semester of Fourier Transforms? That'd get'm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) I love colors and use them a LOT!!!! The best gift MY math ever got was an astronomy teacher. It was the intro to astronomy course - the one designed for non-majors. I was so blessed to have Andy Fraknoi as my Astronomy teacher. (yup you may have heard him on NPR....) [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fraknoi"]http://en.wikipedia..../Andrew_Fraknoi[/url] He is such an exceptional teacher -- laid everything out so step-by-step. I had to work hard, but I was doing OK. (He left my college a few years later; I;m glad for him, but boy was he missed! He came in to our class one day and said to the class with a HUGE grin on his face.... "You ought to be glad you have me for Astronomy!" he then went on to tell us that he'd had lunch with another professor at one of the other big universities in the area, and the guy couldn't stop harping on what idiots his 1st years were, how they couldn't do the math, yada, yada, yada. Dr. F. said, I don't make them do the math. What I tell them is, if you can trust ME to do the math, let me show you what you can do with the concepts. If they fall in love with the ideas, they will WANT to do the math and they'll have a reaosn for learning the math." You know... he was right... I ended up talking about 18 units of astronomy, and I was willing to struggle with the math. it is so beautiful. How 'bout that, BrianThePhysicist.... ! As far as the terrifyingly scary people above me... well, they can do my part of the math since OBVIOUSLY they enjoy torturing themselves more than I do. But I think my favorite math adventure is the kind of little mental leap FuturePriest made today, and I am SO excited for him! Edited April 10, 2012 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrestia Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1334029151' post='2415256'] How 'bout a semester of Fourier Transforms? That'd get'm. [/quote] meh. talk to me after P Chem II. Thermodynamics was the easy part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [quote name='Adrestia' timestamp='1334029368' post='2415260'] meh. talk to me after P Chem II. Thermodynamics was the easy part. [/quote] According to my Chemistry major friends, even the math classes don't help with that bit. I'm sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Thermodynamics sounds hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZO0WWULLA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZO0WWULLA&feature=related[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 [quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1334029770' post='2415268'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZO0WWULLA&feature=related[/media] [/quote] Story of my life. :puke: I've taken all the courses mentioned in the vid, and more. I am still NO WHERE NEAR ready for grad work at any level. While I initially prepared myself for a career in mathematics, I am now convinced that math PhD students are insane. That movie is not a joke, nor a lie. :shudder: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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