What is your favorite Math

[Markoman01027]

Hey All,

Just wondering what's your favorite Math?

I personally love Algebra, and I hate Geometry. Although I would love to take a few Calculus courses in college..will do that in a couple of semesters :D

[icallmedan]

I personally hate Algebra II because that is what I am taking now in school. Systems of Equations confuse me!

[PMich]

I'm a statistics man myself. Probably has something to do with my enjoyment of probability. Geometry and Trigonometry were a couple of my faves when I was in high school.

[Markoman01027]

I was good at Trig, and I am gonna be doing some stat in my current math class.

[erucader]

Algebra has always been my strongest, I love just playing with numbers. Anything more complicated like trig or calc involves too much thinking.

[ghost2003]

although i hate all forms of math, im gonna say geometry, you acctualy do something, not like algebra thats just this+this=what?

[colecifer]

I hate geometry, thats what i am in now since i'm only a freshman in highschool. I'm one of thoose good at math types so i can do geometry, i have an A in that class but i don't like it. Algebra is way better in my opinoin. haven't really messed with calculius or trig, but i would probably like thoose. I really like learning programming languages which is semimath if you ask me.

[HAL9000]

Physics.

[Markoman01027]

I took C++ in High School, and the whole course involved a lot of Math incorporated into the coding.

Plus a lot of thinking.

[homer15]

i like geometry and calculus... and i don't know if it really counts, but i like physics too. that's a really mathy science.

[HAL9000]

Ya.. I find physics makes me think a lot more.. One of my fav questions was where we were given the gap between the horizontal beams on the golden gate bridge... calculate how long it is... beat my head on the table forever trying to figure out how the heck you could calculate something like that when only given one constant.

[homer15]

Originally posted by HAL9000
Ya.. I find physics makes me think a lot more.. One of my fav questions was where we were given the gap between the horizontal beams on the golden gate bridge... calculate how long it is... beat my head on the table forever trying to figure out how the heck you could calculate something like that when only given one constant. you could've asked me, i would've measured it. :D

[bigandy]

I like algebra, mostly because it's easy for me :D. I hate Geometry and Trig (what I'm taking now :( ).

[HAL9000]

Originally posted by homer15
you could've asked me, i would've measured it. :D

Ya.. but that wouldn't have counted.

[DarkHorse]

Ditto on the physics things, I like the practical equations. You see all sorts of wily beasts in those 5-syllable engineering courses! :D

So how were you supposed to calculate the length of the bridge? Look up the width of the beam and the number of beams?

[HAL9000]

Well... you're given one constant in the question which makes it impossible to calculate the length, so it took me forever to realize that you DO have another constant... the expansion rate of steel. Those gaps are set for a reason.. to keep the beams from butting up against each other due to heat expansion causing it to buckle... once I had that number, the rest was easy...... I guess what really killed me.. when I quit working and started going to university, I did steel work and it took me forever to figure that one out.

[Fastfly]

personally so far I love Stat.

[aym]

Calculus and Algebra, math has always been my best subject.

[Hi Ho]

I hate all math. It seriously makes me depressed to think about it. Especially algebra.

[completeandutterNEWB]

i've never taken it but physics does appeal to me
i read my older sis's physics text book a lot for no reason
(yep im a nerd :D )

[DrZaius]

Calculus. :D

[cdnref]

Adv. Physics 120. %91 I finished with 94 in Adv. Math :) I'm a Math guy. I failed English though

[compusport]

As a former fitter and current AutoCad user, i'd have to say geometry is easy to go on...Nice neat constants to work with.....In high school, when the answer became plots or sets of numbers, i lost interest in no time.

[i3OSS]

does physics fall more into the science category?

[Markoman01027]

CDNREF,

You sound like me..I am good at Math, but terrible with English. Well, I can write essays and I like to read, but I cannot do grammer very well.

[imbest123]

I cant say that im bad at math but I really like Algebra II and I hate trig.

[DragonNOA1]

A lot of people are like that, good at math and bad at english, or vice versa. It involves two different sides of your brain and some find it hard to switch between. In general, women are good at english and men at math.

I thought Calculus was fun because you could add imaginary numbers and spin lines around an axis to find area and volume and what not. Plus no one else knew what I was talkin about so it made me feel smart. Another cool thing I liked is that one problem took up the whole sheet of paper. You do a whole problem and leave it laying around for someone to find and they'd most likely be impressed by it. Then I would tell them that the paper was only ONE problem. They would about sh*t there pants and say, "I could never do that". :D

P.S.: Blah blah

[imbest123]

AHAHAHAHA Dragon your sooooo right. btw i suck at english :(

[bigandy]

Trig and Calculus were created by people who wanted to watch high school students suffer ;).

It's weird, I'm pretty good at math, and also at english. But like you guys were saying, most people are one or the other. I think it might be because of all the reading I did when I was young (my parents are big readers).

[Hi Ho]

I'm one of those good at english but bad at math people. I don't get how so many people can actually like math. I guess it's just how I think.

[kstatefan40]

Math was always my favorite subject, until pre algebra. I kind of lost intrest in it then, or maybe the fact that we do 50 problems every night that are basically the same things over and over. I can do very advanced problem solving and problems that make you think. I am one of those guys who loves english, at least to read and write, and hates algebra. I dont know that my vote counts though, since i am only in Algebra I.

[bailey]

I excelled in shop math which was algebra, geoemetry and trig, applied in tool die drafting, electronics, and other applications.

[mattg2k4]

I've always enjoyed math class, if for no other reason than I found it fairly simple. Now I'm taking first year calculus, and I have to say I'm struggling quite a bit to maintain a good grade. But it is kind of fun to really get to the roots of concepts I've studied in previous years.

[james8547]

I like Proofs (proving that there is no largest integer, proving that 2x will always yield an even number, proving that there are infinite number of primes).

I can't say that I have a fav math class, but I have fav math topics:
-hunting for prime numbers
-gaussian elimination aka gauss-jordan aka row reduced echelon form
-proofs :D
-linear algebra (matrix approach not graphing)
-discrete math

[corosus]

for reasoning i'm into logic (the witgenstein way)
and for esthetics i like fractals :)

[DragonNOA1]

Hi Ho, IT IS how you think. lol

I'm getting better at english though now that I have like 3 english classes in college and no math classes. I actually got my first A in english just last semester. In high school I had A's in math all four years. I take pride in that.

[XpXJ19]

I love math and I love physics.

I love Calculus because it is closely related to physics.

[yellohut]

I haven't taken a math class since my junior year of high school in 1997.

I took advanced placement physics and calc, ad got a 4 on both exams.. giving me college credit for them.
I also got a 730 on the math part of my sat's, so i was waived from having to take math again..

Although I do read up on physics in my spare time.. I would have to say that that or calc is my fav.

[homer15]

was anyone else scared by 3rd grade math? i mean, decimal points, fractions... yikes!

i was out sick when my class was learning fractions, and the teacher tried to give me a quick catchup using a pizza analogy. if you had a pizza cut into halves or eights (and he drew it out on the board) which would you rather had? i said the smaller one because i like to eat small slices of pizza... then he said which one would let you eat more? i said a whole bunch of small ones... i just couldn't grasp it.

[HAL9000]

LOL... In Gr3... I was getting so confused by math that I tried to cheat in class by using a calculator.... well... it was so much work trying to cheat and avoid being caught by the teacher or my classmates that I started getting the answers before I could punch in the numbers and I find now that I do rather complex problems in my head.

[Hi Ho]

This is making me sick. I can't stand math, maybe I should just stop reading this thread. :)

[Markoman01027]

I don't remember elementery math, maybe because I didn't pay attention or did actual studying till about the 11th grade LOL

[DarkHorse]

Two things I recall from elementary math, my third grade teacher printed out our fraction problems on the back of paper with calculus problems on them. I saw that side first, and I nearly cried when I saw what was 'due' tomorrow. I don't know if it was deliberate or not, but I wish I could see that problem again.

The other was learning mulitplication tables in fourth or fifth grade. I thought it was SO unfair that we still had to learn these things when calculators did all that for us, or I could do the math on my own. By now, of course, I am thankful I can do 8*4 without whipping out my calculator ;)

[CaptTuna]

Addition, as long as it requires 3 digits or less.

[AlwaysUp]

I love recalculating my payroll check to see if those buggers screwed me!

[Penguin]

I liked Geometry and Calc, but when I took Differential Equations in college, it was very hard, but pretty neat to learn.