It's funny how it's acceptable for otherwise intelligent people to say 'oh I just can't do maths', when it wouldn't be OK for them to say 'oh, I barely know how to read'.
(Football and 80s music matter to me, dammit).
What time is it in your location?
Because theres a difference between knowledgeable and intelligent.
You dont have to actually know what those fractions resolve to. Just insert the ones you do and go from there.
1/8 = .125 tells you the answer
Math needs more love. Its the reason these people even have their phones and social media.
Doing math in your head is a useless skill for most people since they have a calculator on their phone.
I think that TC is a bit wrong, as I don't think that this 1/7 question is a good example, but I still think there is a point.Which isnt even necessary to answer the question.
The problem isn't that people can't calculate simple numbers in their head, the problem is that they can't solve less simple questions even with a calculator.
But then again, you have these stupid meme polls with calculations like "12/2+5+6*7=?" and a ton of wrong answers.
Because math is the devil. The Roman's already solved x and its 10.
Math is embedded in my brain. I'm obsessed with numbers.
It's funny how it's acceptable for otherwise intelligent people to say 'oh I just can't do maths', when it wouldn't be OK for them to say 'oh, I barely know how to read'.Anyone can, and should be able to read. I cannot do mathematics beyond basic algebra. Believe me, I tried, I just cant do it.
(Football and 80s music matter to me, dammit).
A lot of people haven't used fractions without a calculator since they learned it as 10 year olds, but crappy old 1980s music is their everyday life.This.
But theyre always ready to answer questions about stupid shit like overpaid football players or crappy old 1980s music. Stuff that doesnt matter.But the question you have as an example is literally pointless. There is zero meaning to that question... The other two would at least be trivia
But the question you have as an example is literally pointless. There is zero meaning to that question... The other two would at least be trivia
Talk to anyone who deals in math, they are always looking at patterns or things that connect. The reason people are bad with math is because they dont see those patterns likely because they werent taught to think about it that way.
I mean really, who is going to look at something 0.142 is closest to which of these fractions - 1/3, 1/5, 1/7 or 1/9? and think anything other than "who gives a shit?" I mean really...?
Estimating a fraction from a value is something people do all the damn time. Say you're building something and you want to build the hypotenuse of a right triangle to reinforce a corner. You plug in either the Pythagorean Theorem or something with a sine function (depending on whether you want to work with side lengths or angles) and get the side length as a decimal. You'll probably intuitively want to convert that back to inches, and you decide you want to go with the nearest quarter of an inch (so you know what length to start with -- you'll cut it exactly once you have the materials together). Almost everyone can look at a value like 10.421 and say "that's a bit under ten and a half", "that's a bit over ten and four tenths", or other commonly used values. Knowing eighths is pretty common as well.
I highly doubt many people have sevenths memorized, but the question doesn't ask you what 1/7 is, it asks if the answer is closer to 1/5 (exactly .2) or 1/9 (.1111 repeating) than it is 1/7 (which you know is somewhere roughly in the middle). Being able to have any fucking common sense is a skill, too.