Sunday, October 12, 2025

Try it - you'll see.

 

Learning math, for some, is just as hard as learning a foreign language.


If there were no more than two ingredients, such as the words themselves and the positioning of those words within a sentence, it may not be too bad, but it is so much more.  There are tenses, and masculine and feminine to consider.  There are inflections and dialog and reginal differences.

Math is no better.  Not only are there whole numbers to deal with but then they break off pieces of them.  Now you’re working with only fractions of those numbers.  The smaller they get the more you need glasses to see them.   Soon you find yourself squinting and turning the light up  a notch.  As if that were not bad enough, then they want you to subtract something from something that is already a fraction of something else.  How crazy is this?  And don’t even get me going on decimals.  Decimals look exactly like a period, and yet they can move around.  A period can only go at the end of a sentence but make it into a decimal and magically it can move.  Go figure.  Really, stand ten feet away and see if you can tell me which is the period and which is the decimal      

            

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1 comment:

Pauline said...

Oh Mannnn, you're making my head hurt!