Hamish McPanji
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I've lost my Casio somewhere, bad memories wiped clean
Casio FX82 was the "iPhone" of its day....I think they still sell these!! That's why I got a Sharp!
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Casio FX82 was the "iPhone" of its day....I think they still sell these!! That's why I got a Sharp!
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5 years later. I thought I'll never see that again.
konfab
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They are going to have fun in university.
When asked for a formula sheet for a tut, the lecturer wrote this on the board.
It's actually a major problem IMO, kids in school get these formulas without knowing where they come from.
When asked for a formula sheet for a tut, the lecturer wrote this on the board.
It's actually a major problem IMO, kids in school get these formulas without knowing where they come from.
well its an issue of whether to focus on problem solving ability or memory
I don't remember much from school or varsity, but I know how to solve a problem when faced with it.
Johnatan56
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German? Mitternachts formel, english is quadratic formula as many have stated.
konfab
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Because the real world has not been modelled with mathematics and probability.
We were allowed to use calculators, even HP scientific calculators, we were allowed formula sheets and in some courses even the textbook. The fact is that a calculator and even the book doesn't help you much to solve advanced problems. The calculator is only good for the very last step of calculating the final numbers. Textbooks only help if you know where to look or are good at quickly locating information. Formula sheets only help if you know which formula to use. In other words just like the formula sheet in this thread they're not much help at all unless someone knows what they're doing.And when you get to university, you get no formula sheet or even the use of a calculator. A lot of the "smart" kids got a rude awakening.
It's not problem at all. In fact it's just like much of university engineering and science, knowing where they come from might help you derive it from first principles, but you don't need to know that to use a formula you're given, remember or have on a sheet. I was actually quite surprised when I got to university and suddenly memorising formulas was no longer a requirement (which it stupidly was when I went to school).
As an example I have a friend who does advanced mathematics who can derive any of the mathematical formulae used in physics, engineering and so on, but he has almost no clue of what they'd be used for in the real world. People like him research mathematics and figure out new things that those other fields then take and make practical use of. In engineering or physics on the other hand they'll just tell you that you'll learn to derive this in your mathematics course, but here we're interested in application, so it doesn't matter and you can learn it on your own or wait until they get to it in the mathematics course if you're interested.
cfilorux
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Information you might need: y = mx + c
I lol'd and lol'd: there's an information sheet! Ha ha ha! What did the matrics learn?! They get given the formula for quadratic roots! Also this little gem, just in case they need it:
I lol'd and lol'd: there's an information sheet! Ha ha ha! What did the matrics learn?! They get given the formula for quadratic roots! Also this little gem, just in case they need it:
That's as good as saying "we know you know nothing at all".
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