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To most students, math classes are torture
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Math is just way too complicated to learn
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In modern times, robots and computers can compute math more effectively
Modern junior high students face pressure from everyday school subjects. One particularly evil subject is math. It is basically too complicated and useless.
Many math teachers and parents might think math is an essential subject for kids to learn about in school so they can use it in daily life and their careers. To most of the students, however, math classes are torture. Here are four reasons why:
1. Teachers teach math just to release their pressure on students
The main reason teachers teach math is just to torture the students! Teachers experience pressure all day from parents, work, and the principal. Of course teachers can’t yell at our parents and they certainly can’t yell at the principal to let their pressure out. The only ones they can rage on are the students.
Teachers use math sessions as torture, teaching boring math and making us students fall asleep, then they yell at us for not paying attention. Or they give complicated problems for us to solve so they can put a big “X” on our tests.
2. Useless in daily life
Math classes taught in elementary schools are essential. We use this math all the time: subtractions, addition, etc. However, junior high math completely useless.
Take the “X” and “Y” variables for example. When you pay at a restaurant and ask the waiter the price of your dishes, would they say: “suppose dish A is X, dish B is Y. The price of X is Y+13, while Y=ax+b. solve for X+Y”?
No way! Then no one would ever want to go to that restaurant again! It is just too complicated to think of, and it would make customers think that the waiter is pulling their legs when the waiter could just say the price is 500NT.
But this is what school teaches us junior high students now! If we don’t use it, why do we have to learn it, instead of learning something useful?
3. Too complicated to understand
Math is just way too complicated to learn. The Xs and Ys and all those numbers swim around our eyes, making us dizzy, and just looking at mathematical problems makes us fall asleep.
We need to memorize all kinds formulas to solve questions that don’t matter to us in complicated terms we don’t understand. It is just too hard for our brains to process.
4. No real need to learn this stuff
In modern days, there are robots and computers to do all the hard work for us, and they do it more effectively. That’s why learning complicated math problems is useless.
No matter how fast you can calculate, you could never beat the speed of a computer, which could solve the problem in a flash. Just throw the problems in a computer, and you can get the answer! So what is the point of learning these problems when a computer could easily do it for us?
Math classes are really a waste of time for junior high students. They are not useful, no one really understands the subject, and it basically could be done by computers rather quickly and effectively. We really need to cancel this subject and learn something more useful.
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I totally agree with this article
This is stupid in an uncountable amount of ways. It seems that for the writer, math is just memorization and speed.
do you honestly think all math is useful, sure you didn’t exactly say that but it seems that you are
All we need is add divide subtract and multiple all the other stuff is what he said they want to release there pressure on students
Woah i kind of agree and disagree
Some math is useful to know such as calculating interest and compound interest, but unless you’re going to be an architect, engineer, or be involved in some field that requires strong knowledge in complex mathematical functions and problems, it seems useless to learn about topics such as trigonometry.
Somehow, I happily agree with this article, but I also have to disappointingly disagree. I really agree that learning x and y are so useless, I don’t think that would be needed in real lives. The important thing about math is to know how to solve the problem. Whether you should add, subtract, multiply, divide, how to handle discounts are useful. Maybe learning long division is useless as calculators these days could just solve the problem easily.
In conclusion, basic maths are just the maths we need, no need to learn advanced calculus or advanced algebra in school. Advanced maths are just for people who want to pursue further mathematics.
That its it, srry if I’m wrong 🙂
Really a useless subject we don’t need it in our daily life it should be banned accept addition subtraction multiplication division which we need in our daily life that’s it! Because I always failed in my high school in math subject😥😥
This is very true it needs to be banned this is modern day we have calculators and high end PCs with gtx 1030 graphic cards and iphone 10 and 11s we do not need to be taught algebra we need to review basic mathematics and about money management
Comments like yours really trigger me… in 10 years if nobody’s learned math who is going to make the architecture for that new GPU of yours huh? who is going to write all the machine code for your pc components to work togheter?
I agree with the X and Y thing. It’s literally useless.
This is TOTALLY NOT TRUE! Math is a fundamental part of human logic and essential for attempts to understand the world and ourselves!
No
You’re literally in 5th grade, you have know idea what dealing with middle school math class is like.
The algebraic equation you gave is false I mean where did you take the variable “a” from?
Also the shit about robots if you knew how they work you would understand that people do need maths… a robot isn’t advanced enough to find new formulas or to create a new generation of computing as a future software devloper (hopefully) who is studying algorithms heavy amounts of maths and physics what you just said is a perfect example of ignorance.
You won’t have your phone with you all the time and learning simple calculations hurts nobody… Meaby you are too dumb to comprehend percentages.. Well your problems paying taxes not mine.