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JCS · 03-17-2003, 08:41 PM

15/19 not bad for me. Last time I had a math class I failed and had to take it over again, that was in the tenth grade, just over 30 years ago.

Never · 03-18-2003, 05:31 AM

15 out of 19 with a pen and scratch pad. And that was not easy.
You can add to my choice above that I don't remember that and I hate math.

elanah · 03-18-2003, 06:15 AM

19/19

I did use pen and paper, though.

NialScorva · 03-18-2003, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Loren Pechtel
A calculator can crunch it for you. It can't set it up, though.

Yeah, but knowing how to crunch it helps a lot in learning how to set it up. Once you have climbed that foundation, then you can cast aside the ladder of arithematic... until you have to remember how to do long division for dividing things that aren't numbers.

openeyes · 03-18-2003, 08:40 AM

I got 15. Didn't remember formulas for triangles, etc. Also said horizontal when the answer was vertical or vice-versa. Was more challenging than I expected. (Didn't use a calculator, but needed scratch paper.)

KoopaFanatic · 03-18-2003, 10:28 AM

19/19
I too lost the ability to do simple stuff in my head when I started learning calc, but when I stopped taking math in my second year of college it didn't all come rushing back to me. And I'm embarrassed to say that I don't even remember how to do a derivative.

Tom Sawyer · 03-18-2003, 10:57 AM

14/19

Not bad, considering that I've avoided all math-related matters for the past ten years. I made the same mistake as someone earlier and thought the circumference of a circle was pi*r2 and that lost a a couple of answers.

Pierre Bezukhov · 03-18-2003, 03:06 PM

17/19

I screwed up by finding the area of a circle instead of the circumference on one and by not following directions on the last one (subtracting the hypotenuse from the sum of the two sides). Drats and curses!!!

PopeInTheWoods · 03-18-2003, 03:40 PM

19 right. But then again I do have a B.A. in Mathematics.

tribalbeeyatch · 03-18-2003, 04:22 PM

19.

And I don't even have a math degree! (Luckily they covered most of this stuff when I was in...well...8th grade)

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I got them all right! - 19	26	35.62%
Almost all right - 17-18	28	38.36%
I missed some - 13-16	11	15.07%
I can't remember all of that crap!	6	8.22%
I missed a lot, I hate math!	2	2.74%
I cheated and used a calculator!	0	0%
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03-17-2003, 08:41 PM	#41
JCS Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: right over there Posts: 753	15/19 not bad for me. Last time I had a math class I failed and had to take it over again, that was in the tenth grade, just over 30 years ago.

03-18-2003, 05:31 AM	#42
Never Talk Freethought Staff Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: OH Posts: 5,266	15 out of 19 with a pen and scratch pad. And that was not easy. You can add to my choice above that I don't remember that and I hate math.

03-18-2003, 06:15 AM	#43
elanah Regular Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Waukesha, WI Posts: 309	19/19 I did use pen and paper, though.

03-18-2003, 08:40 AM	#45
openeyes Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Minnesota Posts: 4,215	I got 15. Didn't remember formulas for triangles, etc. Also said horizontal when the answer was vertical or vice-versa. Was more challenging than I expected. (Didn't use a calculator, but needed scratch paper.)

03-18-2003, 10:28 AM	#46
KoopaFanatic Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,867	19/19 I too lost the ability to do simple stuff in my head when I started learning calc, but when I stopped taking math in my second year of college it didn't all come rushing back to me. And I'm embarrassed to say that I don't even remember how to do a derivative.

03-18-2003, 10:57 AM	#47
Tom Sawyer Talk Freethought Staff Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto, eh Posts: 42,293	14/19 Not bad, considering that I've avoided all math-related matters for the past ten years. I made the same mistake as someone earlier and thought the circumference of a circle was pi*r2 and that lost a a couple of answers.

03-18-2003, 03:06 PM	#48
Pierre Bezukhov Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 882	17/19 I screwed up by finding the area of a circle instead of the circumference on one and by not following directions on the last one (subtracting the hypotenuse from the sum of the two sides). Drats and curses!!!

03-18-2003, 03:40 PM	#49
PopeInTheWoods Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Rochester NY USA Posts: 4,318	19 right. But then again I do have a B.A. in Mathematics.

03-18-2003, 04:22 PM	#50
tribalbeeyatch Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: On the edge Posts: 509	19. And I don't even have a math degree! (Luckily they covered most of this stuff when I was in...well...8th grade)

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