I Hate Pre-algebra!!!!!

It doesn't matter whether you like it or not. Just learn it.

Apparently, it is time for you to actually learn how to learn. Not everything you need to know to survive is going to be fun and games.

Think about what sort of jobs never use math and what they pay. You don't use a lot of math to flip burgers for minimum wage, but the manager of the burger place needs to use math.

You don't need math to mow lawns, unless you happen to be the owner of landscaping business and then you will use a lot of math. For any job that requires a college degree, you are going to have to know math.

Anyone who owns their own business needs a lot of math.

Hey, a great job on an assembly line pushing a lever back and forth all day long probably doesn't use any math. Boring as all get-out and doesn't pay well, but you don't need math to get the job. Except for there aren't many of those jobs because they've all been shipped overseas because anyone breathing can do those jobs. No need to be smart or educated, so send the jobs to where people will work for pennies.

The guy holding the stop sign at the construction site doesn't use math, except for maybe counting. What a boring, cold or over-heated job that is. Everyone else on the road crew is using math every day, so you are unlikely to get thats sign holding job unless you can do some of the other chores, which are going to require math. Holding that stop sign, besides being boring, doesn't pay much and isn't a full time job.

Living on welfare doesn't require a lot of math. It's not much of a life but you aren't expected to ever think. But the good jobs that pay enough to own a house and a car and take a vacation every year require math.
 
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It seems the grown-ups have hijacked this thread! It also seems that youth appreciates fun and action, where age and experience appreciates a challenge and a paycheck. (Okay...I'm a math teacher. Not MUCH of a paycheck, but it beats the heck out of packing frozen fish, which is what I did before I had my teaching certificate!)

Here's a thought for all of you young folk enduring whichever subject you dislike: Complaining won't make the class or the graduation requirement go away, so make an effort to enjoy the challenge. A little "brain sweat" feels very satisfying when things finally click for you. And be careful, that feeling is addictive!

--Nikki
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i'd pay all my money to trade geomtry for pre-algebra!
high schoolers don't get off easy! especially for some freshmans like me, i got like 3 Ds! Believe you me, the change from middle school to high school is tough
 
I don't know why i hate it so much... maybe 'cause i would rather spend my time reading or doing science. Science is my favorite subject (especially antomy)
 
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don't worry about it; math's a hard thing to like.

anyone want to trade intro to physics classes with me? mine stinks. this year, for the freshman, they're trying a new curiculum(sp?) and my teacher says she ain't familiar with it herself, so just about every freshman has bad grades in it
 
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