Do you math?

[sherob]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

Trigonometry is when you miss the bowl.

I thought that would be Miscalculus.

[ZED SLED]

Originally Posted by sherob

I thought that would be Miscalculus.

We won't even discuss miscalculanus

[strykerg8gt]

Originally Posted by sherob

I thought that would be Miscalculus.

Well played.

[jrhagen]

Damn, now I gotta pee.

[ChefBorOzzy]

ClickMe

[kmarshall2121]

im going with 54

on that note, has anyone downloaded the "photomath" app? pretty awesome. You just 'hover' your phone over the question, it snaps a picture of it, not only giving you the answer, but also the steps in getting the answer. pretty neat for checking the kids homework...

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by kmarshall2121

im going with 54

on that note, has anyone downloaded the "photomath" app? pretty awesome. You just 'hover' your phone over the question, it snaps a picture of it, not only giving you the answer, but also the steps in getting the answer. pretty neat for checking the kids homework...

Aren't teachers supposed to be the ones checking homework?

That app sounds to me more like a way for kids to cheat their way to perfect marks while honest students get lower grades. Providing the final numerical answer should be all thats needed to show that know the correct process. Like with the question from the OP. If you give your kid 38/2(3) and they work it out like this:

36/2(3) = (36/2) x 3 = 18 x 3 = 54

and an app just spits out '54', you know with near certainty that they did things right. But if instead, they wrote this:

36/2(3) = 36/(2 x 3) = 36/6 = 6

and now check the app, which still just spits out 54 they actually have to go back and figure out where they went wrong themselves.

[jrhagen]

Well, if they did the second one, they would be wrong.

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by jrhagen

Well, if they did the second one, they would be wrong.

Yes, which is why I said ...

Originally Posted by DGthe3

they actually have to go back and figure out where they went wrong themselves.

[jrhagen]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

Yes, which is why I said ...

We weren't allowed to use calculators on tests when I went to school and cell phones, ha. It wasn't just years ago, it was decades. We had to use our brains.

[Gunmetal Speedster]

Originally Posted by pyroguy

It is 54. Multiplication and division are interchangeable in order as long as you're going left to right. So 36/2=18, 18*3=54.

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by jrhagen

We weren't allowed to use calculators on tests when I went to school and cell phones, ha. It wasn't just years ago, it was decades. We had to use our brains.

I thought I was talking about homework, not tests. Guess I didn't make that part clear. My bad.

For me there were no calculators in elementary school. Non-graphing calculators were allowed in highschool & university. Mostly because it ate up too much time when answering questions about compound interest in math or ballistic trajectories in physics.

Never any cell phones during a test.

This spanned the 90s through late 2000s.

[jrhagen]

The TI-30 came out while I was in college. It cost as much as $400. Now you can buy one on Amazon for $10.

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by jrhagen

The TI-30 came out while I was in college. It cost as much as $400. Now you can buy one on Amazon for $10.

I got a TI-85 (or was it an 84?) for a little over $100 before going to university, which I never used because my laptop had Excel.