Calling all teenagers

[AidKD]

Exactly. School apparently thinks that if you walk in a house to buy it, u gunna need to calculate how big it is. It’s on the paper. Like for real. Knowing how to do multiplication and division in your head is great, but why do we need the Pythagorean theorem when we have calculators? Like why?

 

[TesoroSena]

I’m baaaaaaaaaack!

 

[conqueror444]

Exactly. School apparently thinks that if you walk in a house to buy it, u gunna need to calculate how big it is. It’s on the paper. Like for real. Knowing how to do multiplication and division in your head is great, but why do we need the Pythagorean theorem when we have calculators? Like why?

You know, I study add maths and my add maths tuition teacher once asked me on why are we learning all this stuff (especially the formulas in add maths)? Its not like we are gonna use these formulas in the future, right? Yes, we probably aren't gonna use these formulas anymore in our upcoming lives... but the thing with learning add maths and maths is that, we learn to develop "skills". What does he mean by that? Oftentimes we stumble across maths problem-solving questions that uses all these formulas we learn. And we need to "think" first before answering the question. For most questions, we can't simply just get the answer straight away, rather there's probably something that we need to find first by applying certain formulas, in order to get the final answer.

He told me that this can be applied in life, where life will give you the most oddest obstacles that can't be solved straightaway. Therefore, you need to develop skills that orders you to think outside the box AND identify proper steps to carry out before finding out the correct solution, just like maths and add maths questions where you need to think first on which formulas to use, and use the correct formula to get an information that will slowly help you to achieve getting your final answer. That kinda opened my eyes a bit on why we learn all of these stuff (even though it may seemed to be useless in the future), but yeah I agree that it will help you develop crucial problem-solving skills.

 

[MamaPoult]

Hi guys watcha all up to? Its 8:48 here

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Hi guys watcha all up to? Its 8:48 here

How it's 12:48 here what timezone are you in. I just got done mowing some paddocks

 

[MamaPoult]

How it's 12:48 here what timezone are you in. I just got done mowing some paddocks

Oh nice! Im on alaska standard time. Way behind everyone else

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Oh nice! Im on alaska standard time. Way behind everyone else

Ohhh Alaska! Cool! Do you.like living in alaska?

 

[MamaPoult]

Ohhh Alaska! Cool! Do you.like living in alaska?

Oh heck yes! I love it here! My fav thing about here are the mountains and wildlife❤. There is the moose that lived in our yard. Her name was scruffy hump. Anyways I gotta go to school! See ya later

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Oh heck yes! I love it here! My fav thing about here are the mountains and wildlife❤. There is the moose that lived in our yard. Her name was scruffy hump. Anyways I gotta go to school! See ya later

That's so cool! Bye!

 

[notabitail]

Algebra you do need. Other than math and a few years of LA I don’t see the need for school. Sure some science is necessary, but why do we need to know how magnets work? How is knowing about Indias culture going to benefit me in being an esthetician/dermatologist? Why doesn’t school ever cover politics? CURRENT politics. Or taxes? Or how to buy a house? How to get a loan? How to manage money? They claim we figure that out on our own, so if we can choose to figure that out on our own, why don’t they let us choose to figure out Indian culture/scientific things on our own? Like, if @BackroadGirl57 Decides she wants to be a mechanic or something, then she can persue science. My opinion…

If I want to know what year Christopher Columbus found the America or whatever then I can look it up and learn it myself.

I doubt I'll be able to figure out the taxes without having to have tax lady or someone with braincells that do taxes explain it.