Anyone good at math?

[06wildcat]

How do you do meaningful statistics without functions?

You can't, but college algebra has to be the worst way to go about introducing the concept to the general population. You'd be surprised at the number of people that can't figure out, let alone understand, how their property taxes are calculated or that mill levies/property valuations are irrelevant independently. These are the same people that have no understanding of poll results or what may skew poll results (eg biased questions). There's a lot of ways to go about teaching the concepts that don't involve finding x,y and z that would greatly improve the public's understanding of complex equations in our world.

[Saulbadguy]

How do you do meaningful statistics without functions?

You don't do statistics.

[kazzu]

Saul, I'm good at teaching math, at least better than the non english speaking TA you have. Anyways, this site (wolframalpha) is a type of AI. Anticipates what you want with specific functions you enter. I use it to make sure I'm doing things correctly, much cheaper than a solutions manual too (free).
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=f(x)+%3D+1/5(x+%2B+4)^3

It will show you the graph and any other things. 

[catsdo]

I figured Saul was too old to be in college.  Don't know why.   

[hemmy]

College Algebra 

[Saulbadguy]

I figured Saul was too old to be in college.  Don't know why.   

I am too old to be in college.

[steve dave]

http://polymathematics.typepad.com/polymath/2006/06/no_im_sorry_it_.html

 

[CHONGS]

http://polymathematics.typepad.com/polymath/2006/06/no_im_sorry_it_.html

 

 

[PandaXpanda]

True story: Panda is not very good at math.  When I took college algebra the teacher liked me cause I was funny.  He would walk me through every one of our tests and let me repeatedly re-do the problems until I got them right.  For the final I was only able to answer 8 out of the 17 questions.  I turned it in and he just looked at me for roughly 15 secs and then was like "go sit down and get the hell out of my face." He then went on to answer every question for me, including the 8 I had attempted to do.  I got a perfect score on the final and a 98% in the class. 

[steve dave]

True story: Panda is not very good at math.  When I took college algebra the teacher liked me cause I was funny.  He would walk me through every one of our tests and let me repeatedly re-do the problems until I got them right.  For the final I was only able to answer 8 out of the 17 questions.  I turned it in and he just looked at me for roughly 15 secs and then was like "go sit down and get the hell out of my face." He then went on to answer every question for me, including the 8 I had attempted to do.  I got a perfect score on the final and a 98% in the class. 

Your prof. sounds like a sh1tty teacher

[PandaXpanda]

True story: Panda is not very good at math.  When I took college algebra the teacher liked me cause I was funny.  He would walk me through every one of our tests and let me repeatedly re-do the problems until I got them right.  For the final I was only able to answer 8 out of the 17 questions.  I turned it in and he just looked at me for roughly 15 secs and then was like "go sit down and get the hell out of my face." He then went on to answer every question for me, including the 8 I had attempted to do.  I got a perfect score on the final and a 98% in the class. 

Your prof. sounds like a sh1tty teacher

No.  Actually, quite the opposite.

[WildcatNkilt]

True, yet sad story:

One of my college professors wanted to show off how he had PI (3.14.....) memorized to 100 decimal places.  This was supposed to be during our Finals review.

[TBL]

Algebra is double think. 

[SleepFighter]

Who doesn't take college algebra in high school? 

[PandaXpanda]

Who doesn't take college algebra in high school? 

I did but didn't get college credit for it.   

[SleepFighter]

Who doesn't take college algebra in high school? 

I did but didn't get college credit for it.   

Of course you didn't.  It's just college algebra.  You get college credit for your high school calculus class.

[steve dave]

Your momma’s so fat that the probability that she is in an arbitrary point in a room is 1

[steve dave]

Yo momma is so fat, the recursive function int yourMom{ (return yourMom();} causes a stack overflow

[steve dave]

Yo momma’s so fat that when I used multiple integration to find the volume under her curves, it turned out she was a hypervolume and could not be graphed.

[steve dave]

Your momma's so fat that her weight can't be estimated using a t-distribution, since her fatness doesn't provide any degrees of freedom.

[Dugout DickStone]

Biz Calc was another class I had to use my skills of seduction to pass.  Thank you Becca.

[fatty fat fat]

haha. sd, those were pretty funny. 

[TBL]

I like big women.