Actually it would be math teachers without "soft" or basic human skills, who make math hard. I learned it whenever I needed it, but was programmed by math teachers very early on to never enjoy it.

Odd how different experiences can be...

My Junior year high school math teacher turned me on to mathematics.
He also taught Biology and Chemistry, but I don't remember which years those were,
but I remember them classes as "good" classes.

In today's vernacular I guess he would just be called a "good teacher".

That's just arithmetic. Divide the number of people in the hunting party by 12 and multiply the result by the amount of lard you normally use and voila!

REAL math always has something spatial hidden away in it, like trying to figure out the area under a curve or those bizzare calculus problems where you are supposed to buy into the concept of X approaching infinity. How the hell do you "approach" infinity, anyhow? And why would you want to?

Or the stupid geometric proofs that almost caused me to drop out of the 10th grade. If I hadn't gotten my Dad to do most of my geometry homework for me, I'd be just another high school dropout standing on a street corner with a sign reading, "Will work for mind altering drugs." Oh wait! I already do that. Never mind.

My point is that it's a well known fact that women have no spatial abilities. Therefore we should stay away from stuff like math and geometry and calculus, and you certainly shouldn't leave camp with any hunting parties. Why, who knows where you might end up wandering off to? Just tend to that cooking fire, woman. ;)

Sam, I thought you already answered those questions (elsewhere) :rolleyes:

Yeah, I'm just full of profound statements. Ask anyone. :p:

My middle school daughter just turned me on to this nerdtastic math channel on youtube. A day late, but here's some mathed potatoes.

One potato, two potato, three potato, four,
five potato, six potato, seven potato more.
Icha bacha, soda cracker,
Icha bacha boo.
Icha bacha, soda cracker, out goes Y-O-U!


You're it ! ;)

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Like, whoaaah, man.

Oh and

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Cosmic, man.

Hmm

and

Japanese multiplication method

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ETA:

Please demonstrate 1 * 10

Or other factors with a digit zero

Eta. Also, whoa!

Honorabu Big-B-san

Easy to draw inbisibru rine to represent zero. Just not to forget where draw it. Has no intersections.

Prease to remember, "zero" is name of fighter prane make during war, arso call "frying coffin". Traumatic memories, prease not to mention to chirdren.

Zensei.

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This is an interesting illustration.
But I doubt adults use the the method.
It's sort of like kids adding by counting on their fingers.
It's also what we do in algebric multiplication of polynomials...


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but then if, as Big V asks, what happens with zero's, we leave gaps in the summation:

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