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kentuck

(113,312 posts) Mon Jan 27, 2025, 02:45 PM Jan 27

I was never good with algebra in school...

I didn't know what "x" was and I didn't care. It seemed like a waste of time to my young mind. Why go thru all those steps to get a simple answer? It felt like thought control.

But now, after all these decades, I think I know the meaning of "X"?

It is about thought control.

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I was never good with algebra in school... (Original Post) kentuck Jan 27 OP

"We don't need no education..." RockRaven Jan 27 #1

Should have paid attention. It's worth $44 billion. Norrrm Jan 27 #2

I was never good at algebra HAB911 Jan 27 #3

I took twice in college and still don't get it when it becomes more advanced. kimbutgar Jan 27 #4

This hits close to home for me. Xavier Breath Jan 27 #5

RockRaven

(17,012 posts)

1. "We don't need no education..."

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 02:50 PM

Jan 27

Norrrm

(722 posts)

2. Should have paid attention. It's worth $44 billion.

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 02:52 PM

Jan 27

HAB911

(9,539 posts)

3. I was never good at algebra

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 02:56 PM

Jan 27

but I can't count on all my fingers and toes how many times I've used it in real life, to great advantage!

kimbutgar

(24,478 posts)

4. I took twice in college and still don't get it when it becomes more advanced.

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 03:50 PM

Jan 27

X-4=21 is as far as I got in knowing the answer.

Xavier Breath

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5. This hits close to home for me.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:39 PM

Jan 27

Throughout my entire scholastic career I only ever failed one class: algebra in high school. Try as I might, my brain was just not wired for it. The thing is, I can do basic math in my head at a fast pace. Friends I dine with will often ask me to calculate their tip for them.

I thought for sure that my failure as a teen was going prevent me from getting a degree at night as an adult. Fortunately, the school I attended gave me credit for a statistics class I had taken at community college years before, thus permitting me to get a degree. If I'm being honest, though, even forty-some years later it still bothers me a bit that I could not master it back then.

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