Welcome to teh USA.

*sighs*

I know, right?

MY... LIFE... FOR... STARCRAFT!!!!
AND MATH

And as usual, everyone ignores my post

I read pythag011's post. I guess agreed with some of it.

I always find myself questioning whether it's just math that's in this sorry state, or just about every topic mandated by the school curriculum. Unfortunately, I don't have any means of coming up with a valid conclusion, but I usually believe it's the former.

Definitely typical USA though.

Also because I'm in a good mood after reading this pythag011 and Wholikespi are now a contribs

Hm...actually only pythag011 is a contrib.

Hm that's odd, I remember adding him.
Ohwell. Fixed. Thanks.

I would rate pythag's post a 6, but I still don't follow it. I refuse to believe that anything is better than math.

Me too. Possibly CS, but I suck at it, so yeah, math.

I hate to say it, but I think eating and thinking are as enjoyable as math.

Darjn. forgot about that.

I disagree with v_Enhance. Schools have screwed up every subject, but math the most. No one does roots, etymology, and history of languages in Language Arts. We spend a lot of time identifying useless grammar topics. Who cares if this little phrase is modifying the subject or is in the predicate! Is it going to make the difference between a grammatically correct and an incorrect sentence? My teacher last year said, "Grammar is like math. There's lots of stuff to memorize." It's not her fault; she said that she didn't think it was a good idea we did all this grammar (in fact she was a really good teacher), but it shows that she knows nothing about math. Also, another non-math teacher was talking about problem-solving and basically said that knowing how do to word problems as opposed to other problems was problem solving. Word problems? How many olympiad problems are word problems? How many word problems have been in WOOT?

Intriguing. I wonder why the people at my school don't do that to me. (Pro tip: wear a math/science shirt at least three days a (school) week. It makes you seem smarter instantly, at the expense of any social life you may have had. Which you didn't, since you're using this site.)