You know, I’m enjoying these “high school supernatural girls slice of life stuff” but are you going to ever get back to the main characters? I know this venue is popular, but I miss the old Wapsi square. Ed.
And don’t realize that eve if they aren’t formally taught in school, people use algebra all of the time. We go into a store with an upper limit (cash on hand, which I will call by the variable m), and an idea of desired items. Those items represent a value that fluctuates, just as the values of (a-z) do on paper. Those values get further modified by sales, coupons, specials, etc. So all any item in a store is, is a real-world representation of algebra in its simplest form.
Not enough thought is put into the horror that will be zombie drop bears when the apocalypse comes. Algebra will be needed then to figure out how to deflect them as they drop out of trees to attack!
If you don’t understand the need for a particular subject, or the subject itself, you only need to learn enough to pass the standardized tests (which in no way indicate if you understand the subject)
Seems like an easy suggestion, but figuring out (get it? 😛 ) why maths is difficult could be a start for her to understanding and being better at maths
It’s hard to “see” when your mind is full of lust – especially teenage unfulfilled lust – when that is pretty much all you think about… and then some… and then some more…. sigh.
If the value of pi, divided by the radius times itself, is half again the total diametrical range of the blast wave from the zombie-spawning magneutralizing warhead, I want to make DAMN sure that I’M far enough away!!! 😉
If the value of pi divided by the radius times itself is half again the total diametrical range at the blast wave from the zombie-spawning magneutralizing warhead, how far does a rat turd have to drop to break a plank?
Balancing chemical equations is algebra. So, someone working on a panacea making a single mistake could wind up raising the dead instead of creating a cure-all.
Or if they happen to be a certain doctor with tree man’s disease, they could do both. (see ‘Unlife’)
Astali’s fear sounds like a better reason to learn algebra than trying to figure out which package of paper towels is the better deal when you’re on a tight budget to me. Yeah, the second one most people will probably use (unless they have a smart phone, I suspect there’s already an app for that), but the former sounds like a justifiable fear.
Solving equations is actually not that hard.
What’s really hard about math is figuring out an equation that will give you the information you’re looking for.
True dat.
Algebra gets one used to thinking systematically and logically, which could be useful in a zombie apocalypse.
You know, I’m enjoying these “high school supernatural girls slice of life stuff” but are you going to ever get back to the main characters? I know this venue is popular, but I miss the old Wapsi square. Ed.
One problem with that: basically their stories have ended, and it’s not like Mon and Co have been written out, they still show up from time to time
Give the ‘new’ cast a couple years and then we will be on to a new ‘new’ cast 😛
Most people can’t add two and two. Studying Algebra, even if you don’t need it, puts you ahead of the game.
And don’t realize that eve if they aren’t formally taught in school, people use algebra all of the time. We go into a store with an upper limit (cash on hand, which I will call by the variable m), and an idea of desired items. Those items represent a value that fluctuates, just as the values of (a-z) do on paper. Those values get further modified by sales, coupons, specials, etc. So all any item in a store is, is a real-world representation of algebra in its simplest form.
Not enough thought is put into the horror that will be zombie drop bears when the apocalypse comes. Algebra will be needed then to figure out how to deflect them as they drop out of trees to attack!
If you don’t understand the need for a particular subject, or the subject itself, you only need to learn enough to pass the standardized tests (which in no way indicate if you understand the subject)
Seems like an easy suggestion, but figuring out (get it? 😛 ) why maths is difficult could be a start for her to understanding and being better at maths
I’m a little concerned about the seeming assumption that there _will_ be a ZA.
IIRC, her sister is a seer, so is she working on revealed information?
It’s Nadette that’s the seer, not her sister.
Ah. I’d gotten mixed up, what with the general lack of seerage (until now?) we’d seen from Nadette.
It’s hard to “see” when your mind is full of lust – especially teenage unfulfilled lust – when that is pretty much all you think about… and then some… and then some more…. sigh.
If the value of pi, divided by the radius times itself, is half again the total diametrical range of the blast wave from the zombie-spawning magneutralizing warhead, I want to make DAMN sure that I’M far enough away!!! 😉
If the value of pi divided by the radius times itself is half again the total diametrical range at the blast wave from the zombie-spawning magneutralizing warhead, how far does a rat turd have to drop to break a plank?
Who cares? I won’t be anywhere around! *heh-heh*
Balancing chemical equations is algebra. So, someone working on a panacea making a single mistake could wind up raising the dead instead of creating a cure-all.
Or if they happen to be a certain doctor with tree man’s disease, they could do both. (see ‘Unlife’)
Or summon Cthulhu.
Some true wisdom from Atsali 🙂
Then again, its even more likely that a Zapoc is coused by someone who knows to much math if u ask me.
Astali’s fear sounds like a better reason to learn algebra than trying to figure out which package of paper towels is the better deal when you’re on a tight budget to me. Yeah, the second one most people will probably use (unless they have a smart phone, I suspect there’s already an app for that), but the former sounds like a justifiable fear.
I bow to you, as you came to the same realization that I did – algebra is FAR more common than people think.
Solving equations is actually not that hard.
What’s really hard about math is figuring out an equation that will give you the information you’re looking for.
Very true.
Now, if only Matel had Barbie saying something like this instead of “Math-class is (tough)” 🙄
Algebra and word problems are two of the types of math we do often without even realizing it.
I come from the actual factual Zombie pokalyps, and it was one critical individual not knowing algebra that caused it to go down and infect the world.