I have a job for a few years now but feeling scared that I will forget all my maths. The other day few high school kids wanted help with their homework and I looked like a fool. Once you find a job is there any point in time you will need the maths? So far my job required a masters degree but I have not used any knowledge beyond the fifth grade. All the maths I need is in a calculator and even the janitor knows how to do it by reading the manual. Should I hire a tutor to refresh my math skills. My friends are worse than me. They forgot not only maths but even the other subjects. All they do in evenings is drink alcohol and chase girls with their fifth grade capability. Is it useless to learn maths in school then? Are the teachers sadists having taking pleasure in punishing us for not doing the useless homework in the past? I look at the kids today lugging their huge texts to school and feel like crying. What to do?
2007-03-04 13:43:52 · 4 answers · asked by Kaliyug Ka Plato 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Several reasons for taking these courses:
1) You might want to go into a field that specifically requires the use of one or more of these subjects. For example, engineering, astronomy, aeronautics, navigation, research statistician, on and on. Even though you might have computers to do the calculations, you would still need the math background to understand the problem you are trying to find an answer for.
2) To learn how to think, how to analyze a problem, select a possible solution to a problem. In other words, you learn logic.
3) To better understand the world around you on a scientific basis rather than on a basis of, say, speculation or superstition.
No, I wouldn't think you need to hire a tutor, unless you have a particular field of interest you want to delve into just for your personal satisfaction. Or you might pick up a hobby, such as astronomy, and you want to better understand the math of astronomical calculations, as another example.
I took college math only through the level of differential calculus and never had to use any of it except elementary algebra even though I'm now retired.
2007-03-04 14:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by Latigo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over the years you might have learnt so many subjects in your school days.It is not necessary that you use all your knowledge at the job that you have entered. Now you are equipped with suffficient knowledge that you can solve the problems in the job at hand.Now you are matured, It is upto you to use all the knowledge that you have gained either through studies or through experience to use combinedly or singley to solve the problem at hand for the best benefit of the society. That is the purpose of the education.If need arises you may have to learn new subject. Learning is a continuous process .
2007-03-04 14:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by ♦Opty misstix♦ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your brain has been trained during your school years. you could learn that fast even if you think you have forgotten all of them.
2007-03-04 13:52:54 · answer #3 · answered by witly w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-04 13:47:34 · answer #4 · answered by prolife101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋