Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 2

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Or gaming systems to get bonus points for difficulty - typical example is a kid with maths talent doing double math physics chemistry and taking uni maths as an extra; the uni maths even gave us a heads up on what the upcoming assessment tasks for the other maths would be (we just had 2 hours to solve not 2 weeks); use the maths for a lot of the physics as well, So only really end up studying maths, a little physics and the chemistry. And get rewarded for "difficulty" compared to the humanities student who does english, single math, history, geography, a language and drama - 6 separate subjects with no overlap - and get penalised for "easy subjects"
This was exactly me ha ha, the three maths you mention, physics which is mainly maths anyway, English and a few others to **** around in. Didn't blitz but beat a mate who pretty much got all A+ in humanities subjects, he was mad.
 

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Been a while since I did high school maths but when it was called Maths in Practice, Foundations of Maths, Applicable Maths and Calculus it wasn't just 4 versions of the same thing with each slightly harder. IIRC Maths in Practice was vege maths (sic), Foundations was for people who didn't want to do TEE maths, Applicable was the harder TEE maths and Calculus was the nerd maths which you couldn't do unless you did Applicable plus also Intro Calculus the year before.
 

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Not a day goes by where I don't thank my lucky stars they taught us algebra at school, so handy for everyday life.
 

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Not a day goes by where I don't thank my lucky stars they taught us algebra at school, so handy for everyday life.
“Mark, no-one does maths these days – we’ve all got calculators in our pockets just like all our maths teachers said we wouldn’t” - Jez
 

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Worst subject at school was Geography. What a boring, mind numbing waste of time. Had to do it because going to a tiny school it was the only option on that subject grid line.
 

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Worst subject at school was Geography. What a boring, mind numbing waste of time. Had to do it because going to a tiny school it was the only option on that subject grid line.
I loved geography. One of my favourite subjects.
is this a victorian thing?
I don't think so. I learnt this stuff in yr8, so it's pretty ingrained into my memory.
 
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Worst subject at school was Geography. What a boring, mind numbing waste of time. Had to do it because going to a tiny school it was the only option on that subject grid line.
No way Jose.....Geography was brilliant.....Get out & see the world FFS.
 
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