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Topic	What's an actual reason to learn math when wolfram alpha exists?
Xelltrix 04/10/17 11:41:33 AM #33:	Howl posted... Xelltrix posted... With math, it can get a lot more abstract so, for the overwhelming majority of people, they don't need to know it but that's no different than pretty much any field No different than any field? What other field do you study in high school that has almost a zero application? I can't think of one. History and the lessons learned from it are being used everyday in everyday life, especially in the hyper social world of today where everyone is super afraid of an Nazi like dictatorship. Science is used in thousands of practical ways in everyday life from cooking to maintainence repairs on a vehicle. English is used everyday in every job and in basic life everyday. Even physical education is applicable to everyday life. So how is it not entirely different than every other field of study in high school exactly? In my district, there's no math requirement past, like, Geometry so those of us that went higher, went higher by choice and you certainly can get regular usage out of those courses. No different than the basic levels of Bio/Chem that we learn in high school that most people aren't going to use much either, probably less than geometry/trig/(maybe pre-calc if you took it). English is probably the same kind of changing how you think thing as well, but you're certainly not going to need to interpret stories/poems and create an essay about it and I don't think i learned anything new in terms of grammar or spelling in High School English. --- Reading this post may induce one or more of the following: Nausea / Butt-Hurt / Lulz / UM? Syndrome / Angst / Diarrhea <cite>Xelltrix posted [p:876910962] in What's an ... [t:75220407]...</cite> <quote><cite>Howl posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Xelltrix posted...</cite> <quote>With math, it can get a lot more abstract so, for the overwhelming majority of people, they don't need to know it but that's no different than pretty much any field </quote> No different than any field? What other field do you study in high school that has almost a zero application? I can't think of one. History and the lessons learned from it are being used everyday in everyday life, especially in the hyper social world of today where everyone is super afraid of an Nazi like dictatorship. Science is used in thousands of practical ways in everyday life from cooking to maintainence repairs on a vehicle. English is used everyday in every job and in basic life everyday. Even physical education is applicable to everyday life. So how is it not entirely different than every other field of study in high school exactly?</quote> In my district, there's no math requirement past, like, Geometry so those of us that went higher, went higher by choice and you certainly can get regular usage out of those courses. No different than the basic levels of Bio/Chem that we learn in high school that most people aren't going to use much either, probably less than geometry/trig/(maybe pre-calc if you took it). English is probably the same kind of changing how you think thing as well, but you're certainly not going to need to interpret stories/poems and create an essay about it and I don't think i learned anything new in terms of grammar or spelling in High School English. --- Reading this post may induce one or more of the following: Nausea / Butt-Hurt / Lulz / UM? Syndrome / Angst / Diarrhea</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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