Monday, 27 February 2012
Mind Boggling Math
And I certainly do ask myself... Why in the world do we use algebraic formulae? I think I have a good grasp of this as I vaguely remember the word algebra from high school math (and from doing a Master's level essay on the borrowing of Arabic words in the French language...) Somehow that still doesn't help me attain a profound knowledge of the subject.
These fantastic fun and games exercises, as noted above, are just a little pre-maths exercise module for some introductory accounting courses. Think about all the leaders of industry, the glamorous Christine Lagarde, and all small businessmen who as their bread and butter work manipulate maths and money to rule the world and squeeze profits out of everyone everywhere. This is what they must master!
Intimidating it is. I remember freshman high school maths classes, where sometimes I would get the right answer to the equation, but I wouldn't fully understand (or be able to write out) how. Of course that year, it didn't really matter to the teacher anyway, all he was thinking about was his impending retirement. I hope it is going to work a little better this time. I reckon math will have to be approached like a language, and whereas grammar is the rule structure that must balance the sentence, so numbers will be used to balance the equation and eek out the answer. So where in French you have to add the extra -e for a girl when she says "Je suis allee" in maths you have to remember to divide or multiply both sides of the equation by the same number...
So all you brave people out there. Go ahead and make up an imaginary bank loan, with an imaginary percent of interest and you figure out how much you will have after 3 years...
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