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#26 2014-06-11 21:28:11
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
By the way, I do not sit with my favorite girl. I generally find some seat behind her, which is more fun.
Here is a bobbym quote about it
Just do not dip her hair in the inkwell.
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'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#27 2014-06-11 21:30:49
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Our seat in class is arranged by our form teacher.
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#28 2014-06-11 21:31:37
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Mysterious forces are at work.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#29 2014-06-11 21:35:00
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Hmm... If I could somehow came out with a book about this "mysterious forces" I might be famous. Lol
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#30 2014-06-11 21:38:48
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Maybe the mysterious force is just proximity?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#31 2014-06-11 21:40:00
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Maybe it's the soulmate thinggy...
Entangled Particles.
I did not design this one intentionally, the tea situation is really true between me and that person.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#32 2014-06-11 21:43:08
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
In my case it was definitely a territory thingy. I wanted to make it clear to the other lads that she was taken. And it worked!
The teachers who knew her thought I would be a bad influence and the teachers who knew me thought I'd get distracted. Huh! We worked supportively. I did better at physics because of her and she did better at maths.
Coming back to the self taught bit; I discovered quite early on that I did best if I read it up for myself and I've mostly done that ever since. My A level class was huge and had a wide mix of abilities. The teacher tended to go at the pace of the slowest, and a quick estimation showed me I'd never complete the course if I went along with that. So I just got ahead in the text book and learnt it for myself. If the teacher set a homework I handed it in just to avoid trouble but I was always several chapters ahead.
And she made mistakes. She passed around some models of parallelopipeds which were prisms (strictly also p---s but not good examples) but I couldn't get her to understand my criticism. She taught that step one of induction is to try n=1, 2 and 3 to show it works for simple cases. Knowing that was wrong helped me at my university interview. They asked if I knew about induction and I trotted out the teacher's version (a bit hesitantly). They looked puzzled and asked where I'd got that idea from. I said my teacher. They asked if I agreed and I said what it ought to be (ie. Just show that one low value can, together with the induction step, generate all subsequent integer values). They liked that (that I was prepared to criticise what I thought was wrong and produce a corrected version) so they offered me a place. 
She also said that the fundamental theorem of calculus was too hard for us to understand and well beyond the level of the course. It isn't!
So, of course you can study at your own pace, and, if you are interested, follow up on topics even if they are not 'on the syllabus'. Good luck with it.
Bob
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#33 2014-06-11 21:46:59
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
That would be a lot of entangled particles. Thanks for the suggestions Bob, so what do you work as? Like a mathematician or?
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#34 2014-06-11 21:49:13
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Bob is a math teacher!
I do not know if I should take up the Math teacher job in my school in future...
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#35 2014-06-11 21:51:14
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
You come from a line of teachers, do you not?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#36 2014-06-11 21:51:41
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Cool. I wanted to be a doctor, but then again I don't like annoying patients. I wanted to be a theoretical physicist but then I can't work on the experimental part. I love teaching (somewhat) maybe I should get a doctorate and be a math teacher. 
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#37 2014-06-11 21:52:44
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
You might change your mind a few more times.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#38 2014-06-11 21:54:03
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
You come from a line of teachers, do you not?
Yes, that includes my mom's dad, my mom's mom, my dad's uncle, my dad's dad, and my dad.
How did you know that?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#39 2014-06-11 21:54:08
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
I'm not interested with the rest. I got stuck with these 3. A doctor, physicist or a teacher (maybe a professor).
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#40 2014-06-11 21:59:12
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
I cannot play cricket well. Can that be a reason to keep me from being a math teacher?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#41 2014-06-11 22:00:16
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
It's possible.
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#42 2014-06-11 22:08:19
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
You told me.
So be a teacher too.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#43 2014-06-11 22:10:37
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
So be a teacher too.
Read the 40th post, did you? Hmm? herhh. Herrh.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#44 2014-06-11 22:13:06
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
I was talking to the other fellow.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#45 2014-06-11 22:13:23
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
There is one bad thing being a teacher, you know. All those students... Ylikes!
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#46 2014-06-11 22:14:50
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
I agree, so become a teacher with no students.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#47 2014-06-11 22:15:15
Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Changing the diapers...
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#48 2014-06-11 22:15:53
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
Become a forum teacher then...
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#49 2014-06-11 22:15:59
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
No, become a teacher with good students.
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#50 2014-06-11 22:16:34
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Re: Wish I don't have to go to school
That will be quite difficult.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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