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	TSR : Web boards : Other Topics : "Anyone into maths? " 1 2 3 Anyone into maths? (24) This post is on the Other Topics web board. Tue 13 Jan 09, 12:52 PM SixThreeFive SE, 4 yrs I'm struggling with my 6th form math, I just can't wrap my mind around it. Could anyone explain how I solve equations like these: 1/ g(x)=0 2/ f(x)=g(x) I'm completely lost, my books isn't helping and I've no teacher to ask. Smile, it confuses people. 13 Jan 09, 2:38 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs Sanna I need to report this! This definitively is a post for the sadism board! (hope my memo helped) Andrin 13 Jan 09, 4:18 PM SixThreeFive SE, 4 yrs Your memo was excelent, Andrin! And dear god, whoever decided one needs to learn this in 6th form is decidedly a sadist. As a nurse, will I ever use this stuff?! Smile, it confuses people. 13 Jan 09, 4:33 PM 902-660-194 US(PA), 6 yrs SixThreeFive wrote: And dear god, whoever decided one needs to learn this in 6th form is decidedly a sadist. As a nurse, will I ever use this stuff?! umm.. what is 6th form? *scratches head* lol anyways.. no clue if you will use it in nursing since i'm unsure on what it is but i know my mother used advanced math like crazy in her 40 year nursing career. good luck to you ~peace the sting of His whip~ the welts from His crop~ the warmth of His kiss~ the click of the lock~ assures me i am His most cherished possession.. ~touching my soul in all the wrong places~ 13 Jan 09, 4:35 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs SixThreeFive wrote: As a nurse, will I ever use this stuff?! Maybe you won't need it as a nurse. But you will if you want to solve the optimization problem of how to best present your nicely shaped butt to the elegant curve drawn by Mephisto's whip. Andrin Edited 13 Jan 09, 4:36 PM by Andrin 13 Jan 09, 4:38 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs 902-660-194 wrote: ...but i know my mother used advanced math like crazy in her 40 year nursing career. Congratulations to your mother! My ex was head of a nursing home and let me do all the math he needed Andrin 13 Jan 09, 4:43 PM SixThreeFive SE, 4 yrs 6th form would be the UK equalent of Jr College, I think, or the last year of High School. I simply use that term to explain where in the education-stadium I am. Very briefly: In Sweden we start school at age 7, and it's mandatory until 9th grade ("high school" for me means years 7-9). After that, one can choose to go to the Gymnasium, ages 16-18/19. Most people do. I haven't finished my Gymnasium education, and wont until spring 2010, because I study at 50%. But dear god, I want this to be over! My cousins and my little sister will graduate before me, and I find it humiliating like hell. Andrin: And how exactly do you know what shape my butt is? *looks nervously around for cameras* Smile, it confuses people. 13 Jan 09, 4:45 PM 902-660-194 US(PA), 6 yrs Andrin wrote: Congratulations to your mother! My ex was head of a nursing home and let me do all the math he needed Andrin lol.. thank you. whenever i need somethin done in that department i call my 15 year old . she's already done with so many i could never understand.. geometry, trigonometry, & now she's in calculus. wants to go into medical research, dont know who she got the brains from LOL well,, sorry for hy-jackin the thread. just wanted to say thanks for the congrats to mom ~peace the sting of His whip~ the welts from His crop~ the warmth of His kiss~ the click of the lock~ assures me i am His most cherished possession.. ~touching my soul in all the wrong places~ 13 Jan 09, 4:51 PM 902-660-194 US(PA), 6 yrs SixThreeFive wrote: Very briefly: In Sweden we start school at age 7, and it's mandatory until 9th grade ("high school" for me means years 7-9). After that, one can choose to go to the Gymnasium, ages 16-18/19. Most people do. I haven't finished my Gymnasium education, and wont until spring 2010, because I study at 50%. But dear god, I want this to be over! My cousins and my little sister will graduate before me, and I find it humiliating like hell. oh cool. thank you. sounds like i would have been happier going to school there than here lol. we start at age 5 (kindergarden) and have to go 1st thru 12th grade mandatory. then onto college or trade school if we choose. im sorry to be a pain here but can you describe Gymnasium? here that word means the room you play indoor sports. good luck with your studies ~peace the sting of His whip~ the welts from His crop~ the warmth of His kiss~ the click of the lock~ assures me i am His most cherished possession.. ~touching my soul in all the wrong places~ 13 Jan 09, 5:12 PM Andrin DE, 3 yrs Gymnasium is the school you have to pass if you want to go to university. In Germany you attend it for 8 years after 4 years of elemtary school. In Sweden you attend it for 3 years after 9 years of primary school. More see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school) Andrin 13 Jan 09, 5:22 PM SixThreeFive SE, 4 yrs Well, uh... I'm not quite sure what to tell you. When you start the Gymnasium, you get to choose what kind of education you're getting. You can choose a practical program: childcare, electricity or mechanics, for example. Or some theoretical ones like "samhälls" (social) or "natur" (sience). Or artistic ("estet"). Usually these then separate further into specialties. If you read artistic, you might do theater, music or drawing and molding, if you're in the social programme, you choose things like languages, general, economics, etc. There's a group of subjects everyone takes: Swedish, Geography (which is more about stones and rocks and the earth than knowing where stuff is placed), Sience, English, Maths, History, esthetic and P.E. There's also the very vague "Project", which is a project of your own choosing. Then there's courses people who go to the program you do, that you read. These vary. After that, there's some "points" that you get to choose yourself. Every course is either 100 or 50 points. A 50 point course means it goes on for 50 hours, and lasts half a year. All in all, you read 2500 points in three years. [ rant ] To get into Uni, you have to have read at the Gymnasium. Currently, the situation is something like "You CAN quit school after 9th year, but you're freaking shot, because you can't get anywhere to work, because those that did the Gymnasium have all the crappy hamburger-flipping jobs, because they can't get the cheap arse jobs that the uni-graduated students can." Basically, once you graduate uni, you're in limbo land. You've got a brilliant education and good grades (we hope), and you've got a students loan that'll take you some 25 years to pay off. But - no one will hire you, because they only want people who have working experience in that field! So, you can't get a job, because you don't have working experience, which means you can't get the working experience needed. [end rant] Uh, does that answer any of your questions, or was there something more specific you were curious about? *goes back to not understanding squat again* Smile, it confuses people. Next page