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too much words to read...
i mean seriously!! ITS MATHS!!! suppose to b numbers?
i dun even understand da Q...let alone how to do them!!! -______-"
 
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bumbo_hippo said:
too much words to read...
i mean seriously!! ITS MATHS!!! suppose to b numbers?
i dun even understand da Q...let alone how to do them!!! -______-"
I think your problem lies in your grasp of English rather than mathematics being convoluted with English.

You're post should read thus:

"There are too many words to read. I mean, seriously, maths is supposed to be numbers. I don't even understand this question, let alone know how to do it.
:(((((((((((((((((((((((("
 

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da Q r so~~~ Long...its like a fuken paragraph...
who da hell bothers reading dat crap!??
sigh...its too long!
 

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*sigh*

Imagine where mathematics would be today had the greats refused to read more than a paragraph about maths that didnt involve any actual numbers and/or equations
 

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Yeah, If people like Newton and Kepler had had "too much words to read" imagine where we would be.
There would be no laws of motion or anything like that.
They wrote and published all their findings, reading back over all their writings to conclude what they found.

You, on the other hand, only need a basic grasp of fundamental of English to understand the question.
It's really not that difficult.
The questions are simply written in words. Like writing "one" instead of 1, or ''The parabola x2 = 4ay" instead of drawing a diagram.


But then again, if your grasp of the English language is as good as your typing...
 

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So obviously, you are not using maths in any way in your life are you?

*cough*computer*cough*
 

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i dun c da point of trianglez and simpsons rule!
i mean...wat da hell is dat anywayz?
i should neva have picked maths...its all my dads fault! 'maths is important! its da base of life' my a$$
sigh.....i would rather spit out 10 pages of history...than use my brain trying to figure out how to intergrate stuff~
still duno wat intergrate and differentiate is...
can't remember cos sin and tan...
 

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bumbo_hippo said:
i dun c da point of trianglez and simpsons rule!
i mean...wat da hell is dat anywayz?
i should neva have picked maths...its all my dads fault! 'maths is important! its da base of life' my a$$
sigh.....i would rather spit out 10 pages of history...than use my brain trying to figure out how to intergrate stuff~
still duno wat intergrate and differentiate is...
can't remember cos sin and tan...
sohcahtoa? :rolleyes:

but, yes math is the base of many things.
 

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bumbo_hippo said:
i dun c da point of trianglez and simpsons rule!
i mean...wat da hell is dat anywayz?
i should neva have picked maths...its all my dads fault! 'maths is important! its da base of life' my a$$
sigh.....i would rather spit out 10 pages of history...than use my brain trying to figure out how to intergrate stuff~
still duno wat intergrate and differentiate is...
can't remember cos sin and tan...
If you dont know what integration and differentiation are then perhaps your problem doesnt lie in not being able to read lengthy questions.
 

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i can't remember anything i did....
from yr 11 to now...i can't remember anything in maths!!!
i got...less than 10% for my half yearlys....da teacher threatened to call my parentz...
so i thought i try...and found out she didn't call...
so i stopped...
since i got less than 10 % for maths for half yearlies...i dun c da point of me trying for maths anymore~!!
i kno i can't do it...so i give up!
 

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bumbo_hippo said:
i can't remember anything i did....
from yr 11 to now...i can't remember anything in maths!!!
i got...less than 10% for my half yearlys....da teacher threatened to call my parentz...
so i thought i try...and found out she didn't call...
so i stopped...
since i got less than 10 % for maths for half yearlies...i dun c da point of me trying for maths anymore~!!
i kno i can't do it...so i give up!
ROFL at this guy.

You're being hypocritical - you complain that maths can't be applied to real life, at the same time whinging about the presence of english words in math problems.

How can maths be applied to real life without english? Problem solving questions are all in english - and not too difficult to understand, mind you.

The only problem is questions which are phrased especially badly, by people with english-skills like "kevin", no doubt. :rolleyes: Learn to live with it - everything has english in it.
 

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bumbo_hippo said:
i can't remember anything i did....
from yr 11 to now...i can't remember anything in maths!!!
i got...less than 10% for my half yearlys....da teacher threatened to call my parentz...
so i thought i try...and found out she didn't call...
so i stopped...
since i got less than 10 % for maths for half yearlies...i dun c da point of me trying for maths anymore~!!
i kno i can't do it...so i give up!
:eek: Why are you even doing maths? There's clearly no point in you doing it!
And why complain about English in maths questions when you would rather write a 10 page history essay?
Why complain about English in maths and then complain about MATHS in maths?
 

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Emma-Jayde said:
:eek: Why are you even doing maths? There's clearly no point in you doing it!
And why complain about English in maths questions when you would rather write a 10 page history essay?
Why complain about English in maths and then complain about MATHS in maths?
y did i do maths...good point!! i wanan kno y da hell i picked it as well!!!
i didn't kno wat sub to do!!
da only thing i had to do was eng...and datz all i had...all my other sub was random selection...
 

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bumbo_hippo said:
y did i do maths...good point!! i wanan kno y da hell i picked it as well!!!
i didn't kno wat sub to do!!
da only thing i had to do was eng...and datz all i had...all my other sub was random selection...
hahaha nice... a random selection...
wat r ur other randomly selected subjects?
 
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