Do you remember high school algebra, and solving quadratic equations?

[FakeNoose]

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Here's a funny take on "logical" algebra:



(Found on Reddit)

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[walkingman]

1. I do remember - how could anyone forget? 😁 But I can't see the image?

[rurallib]

2. nor can I see the image

[FakeNoose]

9. Can you see it now?

My Mediafire keeps doing that, I think they are discouraging image sharing. (Don't know why, but it's annoying.)
So now I've posted it on Imgur and it should be OK.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. When I right clicked on the image, I was informed

that I was being sent to a file transfer service website, and the connection was blocked. I am on a work computer.

[walkingman]

4. I can see it now 👍 Good Logic!!

[lastlib]

5. Math never lies.

[3catwoman3]

6. I remember algebra in 9th grade...

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…and doing really poorly in the class, which was unusual for me. I thought I was the problem - thatI just didn’t “get it.”

It was the teacher’s first year. After her second year, she was fired. It turned out a whole lot of students weren’t “getting it.”

This would have been in 1964-65. To this day, algebra gives me a knot in my stomach.

[Xavier Breath]

12. Ninth grade algebra was the only subject I ever failed

throughout my entire academic career. It just never clicked for me. The irony is I can do multiplication and division in my head rapid-fire. At dinner out, people ask me to calculate the tip. But I just had a block when it came to algebra. Some years later, when I was going to go back for my bachelor's degree, I took a beginner's algebra class so I could get up-to-speed for the enrollment requirement for my first choice of schools. The result was the same and I ditched the class after three or four sessions.

I wound up attending my second school of choice (who blessedly had a much more lax math requirement) and got the coveted piece of paper, so it all worked out. I still wonder, though, what the "block" was.

[3catwoman3]

14. I think I passed with a low C, which was definitely...

…well below what was typical for me.

My final marking period of senior year math was an intro to calculus. The teacher handed us a skinny black book about the size of a 5x7 card, and said, “Here. This is all self-explanatory.”

The hell you say! She was very wrong.

[BlueGreenLady]

7. This lady has the most elegant solution of the equation

[ProudDemForever]

8. Being Picky

'Cuse...

#1 should be Woman = Time + Money.

Now solve the equation. =)

[applegrove]

10. Clever. I liked solving quadratic equations. Doubt I could do it now.

[CloudWatcher]

11. Higher resolution pix

also http://www.probabilityof.com/math.shtml

[Just_Vote_Dem]

13. I LOVED Algebra

Now, Trigonometry...

[elleng]

15. Yes.

No.

[Piasladic]

16. Found on Reddit

Keep it there. Whoever made that doesn't understand women nor math.

[FakeNoose]

18. It's just a silly joke my friend

Please don't take offense when none was meant.

[UTUSN]

17. With anxiety and dread. Although I had a little number/math flair

I "discovered" a number sequence at age 14 that my math teacher/genius thought was genius and posted on the chalkboard.

I was stunned and embarrassed while he posted in silence line after liine IN SILENCE while the class sat in SILENCE. When it was all over, our future Valedictorian busted the whole bubble with, "What is the *purpose* of this?"

*** Also, when I posted it here a few months ago, a DUer chose to similarly puncture it as NBD, claiming something or other.

[sakabatou]

19. I still hate math

[gratuitous]

20. My best friend and I really enjoyed doing these problems

One afternoon, he was stuck and couldn't figure out the answer to problem 15. The equations we were working with were supposed to reduce down to nice solvable equations, e.g. (x+1)(x-1) = 0, solve for x. He kept getting 5x, which didn't make sense. So I looked at his work and spotted the problem:

Me: Okay Mark, you have 2x + x + x equal to . . . ?

Mark: 5x.

Me: 2 plus 1 plus 1 . . .

Mark (suddenly getting it, but refusing to concede a simple addition mistake): 5x.

Me: . . .

Mark: 5x

Me: You're right, it's insoluble.

[Kaleva]

21. Do I remember high school? I was often drunk or stoned back then.