Tomorrow morning is my final. I'm walking into walls and mumbling log rules as if they were an incantation. Horizontal asymptotes? Bring it on, baby. I am not afraid of exponential functions. Nope. Not me. Gulp.
If you're the praying type, please remember me when you talk to the Man Upstairs tonight. I need all the help I can get!
P.S. - To my high school math teacher (circa 1974): Bite me, you mean old hussy. (Hee-hee!)
I ALMOST didn't take the crunch course. I could've taken it in a normal semester, like sane people do. But noooooooo.
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When I took college algebra, it happened to be from the very same text I had used when I took it in the 7th grade.
ReplyDeleteA true snap.
Not that I remember a single bit of it today, though.
lady red, while I pursue a (modest) Buddhist mediation practice, I'm also very Pythagorean in my outlook on Creation.
ReplyDeleteI will be praying to the Math Gods for you.
Here lady red, does this help?
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Good luck! You're very brave.
ReplyDeleteFay, LMAO! I'll draw that on the palm of my hand...it might help!
ReplyDeleteOooo, lewy has an "in" with the math gods. I'm feeling more confident by the minute! :p
Dances, the kids in my class had all of this in high school, and most of them have sailed through the material. Those of us that have been out of high school for a decade, er, make that two, er, make that three, nearly four...have had a heckuva time knocking off the rust.
ReplyDeleteI'm delirious that it's almost over. :)
Try a five week class(four hours a day)ending today. Next Tuesday start another four hour class. Same classroom, same seat. I feel like i am in language school again.
ReplyDeleteYou're just as cute as you were in language school too, darling. :x
ReplyDeleteOh, x=5 in Fays's post above. It is an easy one and I did it in my head. at 6 AM -- so I know you will do fine on your exam, Lady Red.
ReplyDeleteLady Red said: "...the kids in my class had all of this in high school,..."
ReplyDeleteThen why on earth are they taking it again? Average grade point enhancement or they flunk it in high school?
Reason I ask is that once upon a time long long ago, courses called "college algebra" were for one of two types of students:
1. Older students just entering or returning to college as a re-fresher course before entering Calculus.
2. A make-up course for young retards who flunked Algebra, Solid Geometry & Trigonometry in high school.
Lewy14 said: "I'm also very Pythagorean in my outlook"
ReplyDeleteThat means he answers the "Find X" question Fay posted with the answer Fay posted.
Lady Red said: "Oooo, lewy has an "in" with the math gods."
ReplyDeleteThat'd be more like the architect, carpenter, iron worker, machinist, millwright and rigger Gods....since they use the Pythagorean Theorem more than most anyone.
That means he answers the "Find X" question Fay posted with the answer Fay posted.
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Aridog, college algebra is a required course for all bachelor degrees, and some associate degrees (in my state, anyway). College prep courses do not transfer from high school.
ReplyDeleteLady Red....the courses didn't transfer in my day either, they were expected to have been mastered in high school, so you could enter Calculus, at a minimum, as a college freshman.
ReplyDeleteThis requirement there isn't about you...it is about many of the college kids today who've never mastered more than arithmetic, if that, prior to college. Once upon a time it was considered a "remedial" course...today it is apparently de rigueur.
I'm glad it's required now, even if the reason is a sad one, as perhaps it will avoid the situation Detroit had recently where the President of the School Board, with a college degree no less, was functionally illiterate. He resigned, reluctantly, when reported for masturbating during meetings with female school officials, believe it or not.
Being illiterate wasn't enough to dump him, but being a pervert was I guess.
This is more serious issue than many realize. today's jobs are more "skilled trades" than less. Once upon a time, in my day, vocationalskilled tradesmen and women were expected to be well versed in mathematics...today most require at least a 2 year Associates degree from a junior college or the equivalent of a 4 year technical degree in order to earn a Journeyman's card.
ReplyDeleteAnything that detracts from everyday vocational skills is a detriment we can't afford long term...or sooner than later we'll be unable to "care" for ourselves, literally.