TBH, with you, Bob... I don't even know what calculus is.
Math lost me completely after about 3rd grade & I thought algebra was just silly. Anything with numbers just confuses me ~ unless you put a $ in front of it. 
I can do money! Our budget has always been my bunny.
Thanks, Bob. Sometimes you just get really lucky.
I have to keep reminding my girls I was running my life perfectly well before they came along & run it perfectly well when they aren't around to do it for me but they are convinced I'm totally clueless & in need of serious management help!I still need serious supervision according to my two.
Somewhere in these pages is a picture of the comb bees started in one of our living room walls. We have serious wild life issues. We came home from holidays one year to find so many snake skins draped on a wall the kids refused to sleep indoors! We see fewer snakes these days.I thought I might pop over to that bee keeping thread and give them a bit of advice but I don't really want to show them up.
This little stray is taking advantage of my lack of window handle.
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He's all good again, thanks, Pat. He's just really neurotic & it occasionally makes him very ill. He gets very weird. The other one's completely demented but he doesn't need psychiatric help.
I was very good with geometry but my skills ended there. I have a brother and a daughter that are engineers. They do calculus and all the abstract maths and like to make me feel inferior with their private math language.TBH, with you, Bob... I don't even know what calculus is.
All the sympathies. I have a brother like that.I was very good with geometry but my skills ended there. I have a brother and a daughter that are engineers. They do calculus and all the abstract maths and like to make me feel inferior with their private math language.
I still surprise him though. I'm not a linear thinker so make connections he misses. Case in point: the cops were taking DNA swabs in my other brother's small country town after a rape & BR1 was fussing that Br2 was rejected though he had voluntarily gone in. I pointed out if they had DNA from the scene then they probably had an ethnic profile & 75% of the population could be dismissed. That had never occurred to him. 
I learnt a long time ago my intelligence works differently to most people's...
& I have @ least one child who is pretty much the same & of whom our Homeschool supervisor commented: You have different learners, don't you? Uh...yeah....
You know I've never needed to use it in all my life. It's sad they can't develop a math curriculum that uses real world applicationsI ditched all math & all science except science for dummies because I refused to cut up bodies [so gross] & I couldn't do the math for chemistry or physics. I got lucky. Mine was the 1st year to be allowed uni entrance without math or science. I defered anyway & went overseas & when I finally went to uni I went as a mature student & the whole HSC thing was irrelevant anyway.
Yes. I had a bee about that ~ & as a homeschooler used it to my advantage. My oldest daughter was sent to buy a car. She had to do all the research, organise the finance, work to budget & whatever specifications we'd set out & she was the one who did the negotiating with the salesperson. She couldn't actually finalise the purchase as she was under the legal age to do so, & the salesperson was totally spun out as he wasn't sure who he should be pitching his talk too. It was a really good lesson in the practicalities of math life. Youngest bought a TV on~line using the same sort of principles. Dad oversaw both projects & when YD started working & needed a car He walked her through the process of getting the best deal for her buck. She's since done 2 other cars totally on her own & I must say both girls are better money managers than any of their brothers.
Like many things, one doesn't see the point of math until one has to use it.
