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    How well has your math held up?

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    Post by Chris Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:36 am

    How well would you say your formal mathematical lessons from high school and college have held up to this day? Are you still comfortable with long division, fractions, equations, algebra, fractions, etc., etc., or would you need a refresher in it?
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    Post by Supernova Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:38 am

    I never liked long division in the first place, I couldn't work that way, I only knew it as being a reverse on multiplication. Algebra, forget it, fractions and equations I think I'd do alright in.
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    Post by Alan Smithee Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:16 am

    It's gotten better.
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    Post by Shale Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:30 am

    I never had any math skills so they've held up to their original parameters. Thankfully there is a calculator right here on my desktop, and I have a portable one in my courier bag that runs on sunlight.

    Thank you math nerds for making those.
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:36 pm

    They are o.k. but thank god for my calculator LOL
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    Post by Cheaps Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:19 pm

    Definitely need a refresher.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:23 pm

    They've held up pretty good....which is a bit surprising since I've always hated math. I was helping my friends nephew with his algebra the other day and I realized that I retained quite a bit from my formative school years. It's true that once you learn something....you never quite forget how to do it.
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    Post by RobbieFTW Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:33 pm

    I can add, subtract, multiply, do basic division and still know some basic fractions. Anything past early HS level math I probably forgot.
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    Post by RedBedroom Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:13 pm

    Geometry is lost on me, just ask my son! Otherwise, I do okay.
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    Post by wants2laugh Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:07 am

    I had Algebra and Geometry honors in high school. And 15yrs later was tutoring postal workers who were attending college. I was shocked when i realized that i still remembered parabolas and hyperboles LOL

    I wound up taking advance alegbra and calculus in college a few years ago
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    Post by Hyacinth Girl Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:08 pm

    I made it as far as pre-calculus in high school, did statistical and lab math in college, and learned quite a bit about fractions, while working in a fabric store during college. I,along with the rest of the class, bombed stats in school because the instructor sucked, but it's turned out to be the math I use most in daily lab work.
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    Post by Shale Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:18 pm

    Hyacinth Girl wrote:...and learned quite a bit about fractions, while working in a fabric store during college. ...
    So there is actually a job that requires the use of fractions? blank stare @ you

    I hate fractions and can't do them. I have worked half a century and never in any job needed to know what 5/8 X 9/16 was. I think fractions should be outlawed and everyone just use decimals. Why 3/4 when .75 is so much easier to handle?
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    Post by Alan Smithee Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:38 pm

    Shale wrote:
    So there is actually a job that requires the use of fractions? blank stare @ you


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    Post by CeCe Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:33 pm

    Not bad but I am thankful for calculators.
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    Post by Hyacinth Girl Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:44 pm

    Shale wrote:
    So there is actually a job that requires the use of fractions? blank stare @ you

    I hate fractions and can't do them. I have worked half a century and never in any job needed to know what 5/8 X 9/16 was. I think fractions should be outlawed and everyone just use decimals. Why 3/4 when .75 is so much easier to handle?

    Everything in sewing is all yardage measures and calculations. I'm glad I had that job because I learned a lot about fractions and I did use to convert them to decimal to get total amounts of fabric to cut for customers, then connvert it back to fraction to be able to measure it out with the yardstick. Had to do it all in my head too--that was the days before barcodes and computers, and we manually wrote our sales slips and had only an adding machine at our disposal!

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