Blimey! Maths homework!

[slowmotion]

Anyone care to extract the nth root of a number using logarithms?

Mantissa and characteristic frivolities anyone?

Hang about Vernon! Is this filth suitable for a "family friendly" forum??????????????

 

[vernon]

Hang about Vernon! Is this filth suitable for a "family friendly" forum??????????????

Don't worry, I'll keep my abscissa covered.

 

[vernon]

Off to bed now to dream of Taylor series, factorials and geometric progression.

 

[slowmotion]

Don't worry, I'll keep my abscissa covered.

 

[AndyWilliams]

This is why I don't want kids, would be like going back to school again, but worse.

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but your car has more computing power than that.

Ha - mine is a cycling and walking bubble, with not a car in sight! The GPS on my bike has a fair amount of computing power but I don't think it would beat a 1969 mainframe ...

 

[MartinQ]

Maths joke (it is really ...)

I've got a dog called Cauchy.
Why is he called Cauchy?
Because he leaves a residue around the pole

Still cracks me up

 

[summerdays]

/<old fogey mode on >
When I was at school you did your homework on your own, parents were not expected to join in.
Also, a work mate reports that his 7 year old nephew has been given an iPad by his school (yes a proper iPad) and has his homework e-mailed to him. I had to make do with 20 year old text books that you had to cover in wall paper to protect them.
/<old fogey mode off >

I still get to cover books, somehow i fall for the line, you can do it so much better than me Mum! Luckily it's only the French department that makes them do it.

 

[Sara_H]

/<old fogey mode on >
When I was at school you did your homework on your own, parents were not expected to join in.
Also, a work mate reports that his 7 year old nephew has been given an iPad by his school (yes a proper iPad) and has his homework e-mailed to him. I had to make do with 20 year old text books that you had to cover in wall paper to protect them.
/<old fogey mode off >

Bring back the old days!

 

[Sara_H]

I had a heated debate with my sister about her kids' homework. I said I would spend hours helping them understand how to do it, but I would not do it for them!

My parents left the choice of school to me. I chose my own subjects. I did my own homework.

Oh, and I walked to school, or rode there on my bike, or caught the bus. No lifts!

Did you do a 24 hour shift mining razor blades and have to get up before you went to bed?

 

[Sara_H]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but your car has more computing power than that. Interesting sudofact. Every two minutes more information is uploaded to Facebook than was created by the whole written and photographic works of humanity until 1990. Most of it in pictures of teenage gurls gurning in a selfie.

How's the homewoek going Sara?

If I'm honest, I suspect we got the first half completely wrong, then it clicked and I think we got the second half right.

 

[byegad]

Have you still got your Log Orithm Book?

No but I do have the slip-stick I did my O levels, A levels and Finals with. Never use it now as I have a scientific calculator on all my gadgets, phone, tablet and lap top.

 

[compo]

In the early '80's I started an electronics course, and as I am a duffer at maths needed a decent calculator. I recall paying over £40 for a Casio scientific jobbie. The Pound shop now have calculators with most of the functions on the Casio.

 

[swansonj]

"New Math! Hooray for New Math! It's so easy, so very easy, that only a child can do it!"

 

[Spinney]

Blummin heck! My son started secondary school this September. Tonight he needed help with his maths homework.

I had no idea how to do t - it was 'standard form'. Not sure where I was when my year did it at school, I have no recollection of ever learning such a thing! Had to look it up on the interwebs!

Standard form in Year 7???

(OK, I went to a grammar school back in the mists of time, and may have done standard form in what was then called 'the first year' - but I thought they had made life easier these days and didn't introduce that kind of thing until later!)