how much math do you use at work?

Jstar1 · Post by **Jstar1** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:23 pm

Yeah so how much math do you really use at work

so like what level of math (i.e trigonometry, calculus)

cause I take a lot of math because my dad says its good for you

and I'm sure it increases your creativity but I don't see any practical uses for it

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:32 pm

Its useful if you want to be a maths teacher... lol.

Also alot of mathmatics in programming and computer engineering

Shadowman20818 · Post by **Shadowman20818** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:40 pm

A lot, I work at in a chem lab.

Post by **dom** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:03 pm

I'm asian. 'nuff said.

Post by **Rainigul** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:43 pm

You only use it if you're a scientist or engineer/architect.

I don't think in any other case.

Sharp324 · Post by **Sharp324** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:02 pm

Innovacious wrote:Also alot of mathmatics in programming and computer engineering

Tell me about it.... :banghead:

I thought i would never have to use high end math, was really really wrong

disturbed667 · Post by **disturbed667** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:11 pm

[SD]Rainigul wrote:You only use it if you're a scientist or engineer/architect.

I don't think in any other case.

..i DO hope your joking right? you use math every day..ALL the time.

sro gold=math

buying stuff=math

baking a cake/pie= math

you use math for everything

Sylhana · Post by **Sylhana** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:50 pm

If you are bad in math, dont do medicine. Patients will die if you miscalculate :s

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:43 pm

Well, at least even then you aren't trying to find the square root of the hypotenuse of a 6 dimensional triangle. Screw math.

Sharp324 · Post by **Sharp324** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:58 pm

Reise wrote:Well, at least even then you aren't trying to find the square root of the hypotenuse of a 6 dimensional triangle. Screw math.

Actually in engineering it could come up, just not a random triangle but a piece of equipment

CrimsonNuker · Post by **CrimsonNuker** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:05 am

Innovacious wrote:Its useful if you want to be a maths teacher... lol.

Also alot of mathmatics in programming and computer engineering

DAMNIT, I just had to get the stupid hick math teacher this year >_<
*SERIOUSLY mad

Post by **Rainigul** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:37 am

disturbed667 wrote:
[SD]Rainigul wrote:You only use it if you're a scientist or engineer/architect.

I don't think in any other case.

..i DO hope your joking right? you use math every day..ALL the time.

sro gold=math

buying stuff=math

baking a cake/pie= math

you use math for everything

Yup, walking = math
talking = math

Those are two big ones.

Sylhana · Post by **Sylhana** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:49 am

Dont forget statistics and statistical analysis

Math is actually fun for me :s If I didnt do med, I wouldve become a maths teacher.

rumpleKillskin · Post by **rumpleKillskin** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:58 am

disturbed667 wrote:
[SD]Rainigul wrote:You only use it if you're a scientist or engineer/architect.

I don't think in any other case.

..i DO hope your joking right? you use math every day..ALL the time.

sro gold=math

buying stuff=math

baking a cake/pie= math

you use math for everything

or another example, how many times rumple kills sh4rp, math

non ego man · Post by **non ego man** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:06 pm

If I were a math (or logic) teacher, my class would be assigned "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" by John Allen Paulos. There is so much misinformation in the media stemming simply from a lack of knowledge of basic math. Stuff that is provably incorrect gains momentum because people don't have the skills to solve simple math problems for themselves. I haven't read "Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" but I suspect it is equally as valuable.

As for my job, I'm not an engineer or an architect, but I have to do math all the time. I can do the simple equations myself but I rely on software to perform the complicated functions.

.AWAKE. · Post by **.AWAKE.** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:33 pm

well actually it is very important that you touch up all the time on your math skills ,

I work in the real estate business doing sub-prime (people with less then average credit scores / Reverse mortgage loans , and all the time I am calculating what APR Interest rate they will be paying on, there debt-to-income ratio(if they make enough money to keep there new mortgage payment , there LTV(Loan-to-Value %,( take the balance on there mortgage , add up any tax liens , other loans against the property , and devide it into the value of the home ) aswell as the points we charge on the front and the back of the loan , closing costs , document fee's and what not , so day by day I find myself using math more and more.

Math is the shit!

Post by **Stress** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:04 pm

Math is my love. :love:

IceCrash · Post by **IceCrash** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:27 pm

I study electronics, automação(the word's in english, dont know what is ti in english or can be arsed to translate it) and computers..
So yeah thats the name of my course and i think that says it all

Fat_Smurf · Post by **Fat_Smurf** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:35 pm

I like to do thing on my own and find original way to do them...

I failed at my 2 last finale exam

FireJammerXR · Post by **FireJammerXR** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:09 pm

well my second grade math teacher told us yesterday that the president used math before.

so if you ever want to be the president you better learn you some math

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:41 pm

FireJammerXR wrote:well my second grade math teacher told us yesterday that the president used math before.

so if you ever want to be the president you better learn you some math

your in second grade? O.o

Jstar1 · Post by **Jstar1** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:09 am

Easy_Lady wrote:well actually it is very important that you touch up all the time on your math skills ,

I work in the real estate business doing sub-prime (people with less then average credit scores / Reverse mortgage loans , and all the time I am calculating what APR Interest rate they will be paying on, there debt-to-income ratio(if they make enough money to keep there new mortgage payment , there LTV(Loan-to-Value %,( take the balance on there mortgage , add up any tax liens , other loans against the property , and devide it into the value of the home ) aswell as the points we charge on the front and the back of the loan , closing costs , document fee's and what not , so day by day I find myself using math more and more.

Math is the shit!

nooooooo that means i need math

because im interested in computers, electronics, and all the technology stuff

maybe acupuncture too but theres so much math