Just Juan Cupcacke!
Edición: ¡Gracias por my first oro!
Just Juan Cupcacke!
Edición: ¡Gracias por my first oro!
The odds of that happening are a million to Juan.
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Easiest way to get around that is by adding a question mark at the end of the URL.
I'm Ron Burgandy?
Juan Burgandy?
Honestly I'm not even mad
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He is a PhD in Internet
70% of the time, it works all the time.
Menstruation attracts bears
That's juanderful.
Nice pun, too bad ive heard Amal.
You should be
no you aren't
OoOoOoooooOooOOOOO
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Damn. Added to the list of life hacks
That will be forgotten in 5 minutes.
What will?
I dunno, it's been 5 minutes.
reaches for phone to type into notepad, aaaaand its gone.
What's been 5 minutes?
How long?
I forgot by the time I got to this comment.
Now it's been 7 hours! Imagine all the things I've forgotten now.. Who am I..
P Sherman 42 wallaby way Sydney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvS-nC5Pw-0
You can also just open a new tab to, say, Google, and paste the link but my way is easier. It apparently removes the referral site so if linked from any site on their don't-link-to list, it'll be ignored. Or something.
I did what you said, but absolutely nothing happened. There wasn't even anything in my copy and paste buffer.
Do you have to say Google in a specific tone or accent for this to work?
New Zealand accent is preferred. Australian might work but you're playing a gamble there.
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I tried this twice and it just ended up exactly the same as it was before.
Please advise.
Did you remember to stand on your head?
Not funny /r/circlejerk...
NOT FUNNY.
Yes, it is based on the point of origin. So in this case, we're talking about Juan, you need to say it with a thick Spanish accent. Or if you're bad at accents you could try accompanying it with Spanish words like "burrito enchilada conquistador".
is this the warning i get for the spanish inquisition? if so, i can see why they say no one expects it.
Lol, it's so bad though. People do it for a reason. This guy I know had an image of bacon or something linked to on reddit, and ended up going over his hosting limit. Had to pay money just coz people wanted to look at a random pic for half a second.
and stop stealing content!
Or right click, "Open link in incognito window"
This guy knows whats up.
Yep... out of all the suggestions this is the juan that worked.
huh...all you have to do is delete the question mark at end of the URL and enter
TIL
TIL
Damn, son.
I never expected that.
Source: 85-year old grandpa.
Provide evidence, or I shall assume it's not true
Even easier is to click and drag the link to the browser's URL bar.
After evaluating all of the ways people have posted that they solve this problem, yours is by far the easiest.
Actually, it's easiest just to hit enter on the URL address.
Opening it in a new tab (from here) and then just refreshing it works for me on Chrome.
Don't even need to do that, just click the URL bar and then press enter.
(On Chrome)
I always just right click copy link address, new tab, paste and go. Hand never even leaves my pants.
Dude. Wow...
You can never underestimate the scents of lilacs. They are a close cousin to cinnamon plants.
Just place cursor in url bar, and hit enter again. Question mark, has nothing to do with referal.
Scummy webmaster removed it entirely haha
You mean remove it. There is already one in that URL.
I had to remove the '?' to get around it.
Even easier to just click into the URL address bar then hit enter. This makes it a clean HTTP referer header.
https://i.imgur.com/jcbVogS.jpg
Just click on the url and press enter. It worked for me.
You lost me. I am not well versed in reddit speak.
Or, you know, installing Imgur's chrome app so you can right click on images and then immediately upload them to imgur...
Ok. So I have lurked Reddit for years and have been participating in my Arrowing judgements but I seem to have missed out as to why certain thing are acceptable. Also, it's been a million years and I still don't understand how the comment hierarchy works. *exhale
Hold my DMCA notice, Im going in!
Just select the URL bar and hit enter.
Hotlinking means that when you tried to load the resource (the image), it detected you came directly from another website. If you select the URL bar and hit enter, it either won't know where you came from (because you didn't follow a link, you simply told the web browser to load this URL) or it'll think you came from itself.
Yup, easiest way is to select the URL and hit enter. Don't even need to type anything.
His twin brother Amhal moved to India, so if you've seen Juan, you've seen Amhal.
Since IMDB is being a bitch... here.
So you're saying there's a chance.
http://i.imgur.com/asAMbc2.jpg
I actually watched this movie in my Jr. High Spanish class. I mean, it was no The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
I saw this movie (a million to Juan) as a kid on 90's TV. It's the one movie where nobody knows what the hell I'm talking about when I tried to explain it. I re-watched it about a year ago. It was absolutely terrible. 7yr old me had terrible taste in movies. No wonder my dad left.
It's ok because your dad didn't like A Million To Juan so you clearly didn't get your taste in movies from him. How's the mailman feel about it?
I guess it takes Juan to know Juan.
What do you call two Mexicans playing basketball?
Juan on Juan!
Takes Juan to know Juan
Let's play Juan on Juan.
Relevant username.
I didn't even notice till i read your conment
It wasn't a con. His username really is relevant
I would get an A on this test.
Your shitty pun sucks.
Read my username, kid.
he probably is in school with his 7-8 other brothers/sisters funded by US taxpayers
It is really not that difficult. The professor just juan an answer.
Sigh...
+/u/dogetipbot gold
Are you Mexican?
¡Sí!
At first I wasn't sure about this joke....but now it's really Juan me over!
I didnt see that Juan comming
Damn Juan percenter.
Look at you Mr. math genius.
Edit: I think I got them right, but I may have put the wrong capital J in juan or two of them.
Someone call Nein Juan Juan!
yes!
http://i.imgur.com/kFkkT2R.png
I'm so late for this.
all it takes it juan bad joke like dis
Why do you spergs on reddit find puns funny?
And why do you always start sentences with "so" as in "so my calculus professor..."?
That picture is le epic and le randum and quirky XD have my le upboat XD XD
Juantastic!
Weird, cause I saw the same note on Facebook a couple weeks ago.
Notice how this is a printed out picture and not printed from a word processing program
That poor printer had to go and color almost that entire white paper slightly other white.
They do that when there's white in a picture...? Seriously? They don't just print nothing in those areas?
If it's actually white, the printer won't print it. But you can see that the big square round the text is not quite white because of the border between it and the blank/non-printed paper on the right.
^^Instant ^^edit: ^^Immediately ^^unsure ^^if ^^you're ^^just ^^joking...
The "white" in the picture is off-white. As it's not pure white, it gets printed.
No, because white is still a color. What if you were printing on red paper?
Printing text (or vector graphics or raster graphics with transparency) is different since then there are literally empty areas, which the software controlling the printer can safely ignore.
I'm fairly sure most printers can't print white. You can't really get white from CMYK anyway.
If you look closely at the picture you can see there is a blueish haze where the wording is on the paper, and the margin is true white.
Because the image that they printed didn't/doesn't have a pure white/transparent background, it's a picture that's off-white, and so the printer is filling it. If it was printing a document then this wouldn't be the case.
Right, yeah. It's a blueish haze--not white.
tagged you as "printer whisperer"
I opened the comments section specifically to look for people commenting on that.
I opened up the comments to specifically look for people commenting on how they opened up the comments to look for people commenting on that.
I only clicked here to see what you had to say on this
Weird, I came here looking for a computer scientist. I keep getting random links, and I think my printer is out of ink.
I accidently clicked on this and decided, "what the heck, might as well read the comments"
I opened up the comments to specifically look for people commenting on people commenting on how they opened up the comments to look for people commenting on that.
Has reddit gone too far??
I opened up the comments section to look for people commenting on why a university student was bitching about high school math.
Anyway it's pretty good to share with us
The texture looks like the IOS notes app
Too long; didn't type
Prinception?
tumblr intensifies
I'm so sorry I didn't see it then. Please don't get mad at me for looking at it now.
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Let's all vote for our inner Pedro.
I just saw this on my feed, then boom. Front page on reddit.
Student copied it and hung it at the door.
What a coinky dink that you and OP are facebook friends.
Whatever, you raging homo, because I'm watching 2manydjs make stupid noises in Spain at this very moment, because some of us know how internet, and peasants complain about nothing. #internetmasterrace
Perhaps someone saw this on facebook, printed it, put it on the professors door and OP had no idea it was a repost?
Nevermind, this is reddit and the circlejerk train has already arrived.. OP is a big fat phoney
Sounds like every post written by a high schooler on tumblr
Oh
Oh
It's magic
you know
I put it down, and you picked it up.
Look at the sun way up there in the sky
Her name was Julia Michelle
Suddenly, it's not as funny.
Man, I'm in my 30s taking a basic fucking algebra course. I feel like I'm on shoots of understanding. One second, I get it...then I drift off into thinking of the minute of how the fuck this stuff works....and then I lose it.
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Computer science was especially difficult for me, because I breezed my way through high traditional math classes through pre-calc, and only stumbled a bit at calculus.
Then I was faced with counting and probability and logic and "computer math" and had no the fuck idea what I was doing, and because I had really poor study habits from High School, I didn't know how to teach myself a way to actually learn the material.
discrete math is way cooler than calculus
They're both really cool, but the concepts and methods of understanding them were (to me) so disparate that I had mild panic attacks when trying to understand the material.
I went to the labs, read and re-read the book, asked classmates for help, and turned to the internet for solutions, but I struggled immensely to grasp it, and that terrified me. I had never worked so hard just to understand something before.
As a 28 y.o. wanting to go back to school for programming, you just terrified me.
I went back to school when I was 38 and got a B.Sc. in Math and then a M.Sc. in Math. I also took lots of comp sci classes.
I feel that way about Spanish. It makes me want to drop the class, finish my semester, and never go back to school ever again. I liked Biology in high school, and I'm glad I'm not taking it now. Chemistry is a bitch, and I saw a whiteboard in an area just completely fucking filled with a complex flow chart telling what kind of bacteria was what by which chemicals they produce. It took me like ten minutes to decipher it.
Reminds me when I tried to take German one semester and had no idea how the class was structured. Everyone in the class thought it was easy, but part of it was online and you basically went to lectures for oral tests. I had no idea what was going on. Dropped it, switched to Spanish next semester, and it was SOO much easier just by the way the class was designed.
I feel like a lot of student frustration comes from the way the class is taught.
YES. Half of my class is online and the homework is confusing as fuck.
My teacher also moves really fast because like half the class has already taken Spanish before.
Ten minutes. Really?
There was a lot of big words! And I was probably exaggerating a bit.
Did you ever figure out the most efficient way for you to study and learn the material?
A lot of the difficulty came from my ego, my past perception of how to do school, and that I ended up surrounding myself with people who intrinsically understood the material, because by going to them for help I found out who the smartest people in the class were. These were the type of guys that were coding at 13, making their own rudimentary videogames and modifying linux kernels in high school. I didn't learn much from them, but they were good friends in my college years.
I ended up changing majors to English after I lost my job, did really poorly on a Systems Software exam, and had a resulting breakdown. English was much more suited for me, as a subject of study. I wasn't a total failure in CS, I hovered just above a 3.0 GPA, but it was just so crazy difficult that it added a lot of stress. I was really proud of nailing a few projects, like my dynamic programming assignment. The coding itself wasn't very difficult, mostly just the math. A lot of the professors were Indian or Chinese, too, so I wasn't getting much from the lectures.
If I had to go back to school and try again, I think I'd do much better. The learning process, generating abstractions that lead to understanding, comes far more naturally to me now. I also know how much of a struggle it can be and how to separate myself from my own mental bias. Simple teaching methods, like breaking down problems into smaller components so that by learning the sum of the easier-to-digest parts to get a picture of the problem as a whole, are just clearer to me. All those little axioms they tell you in school, that you don't really think about because they seem really obvious when you already know what to do, well, now I can apply them. I was also relying too much on people who understood the material on a level that they couldn't accurately express how they arrived at their own understanding.
My advice to anyone going into CS or related Engineering schools: isolate the things you struggle with, learn to manage your time well, collaborate with others who share a similar level of understanding, and try to find multiple sources of knowledge you can draw from. It's really hard to change the way you think, but CS is one of those areas that is fundamentally different from a lot of other disciplines and even sciences, so leave your ego behind when you start such a path.
Interesting. Personally I find surrounding myself with people smarter than me to be a good thing for my studying as when we group study I just constantly ask questions until I get that damn idea of what is going on. And then I work out the problem we are doing by myself (like on my own paper) and double check with the group and ask questions until I get the damn idea of what we are doing and then I work out the problem on my own paper and compare... I think you get the idea.
My hardest semesters are ones where I am the smartest guy in a tough class and/or when I can't join a study group of smarter people. Man I miss taking stupid english classes, essays are easy compared to controls system analysis.
Yeah, I think my problem wasn't just that these guys were better than me at CS, they were breezing through it. They would start programming assignments like 4 hours before the midnight cut-off, assignments that I had been working on for 3 days. They were on another level, and I couldn't really use them like a springboard. I was maybe an above average coder in class but was friends and roommates with people that were getting As in classes that had a 30% curve. Compared to them, I felt like an idiot, and it was really discouraging.
Ah, coding. Yeah, my method is not very good for learning coding, better for things like math or dynamics. Sadly for code I find that it either you can speak code or you can't. I have seen some of the smartest people I know not be able to write simple things like For loops. That being said, if you can code then you get into the area of trying to code what you want, that is where the problem solving part comes in. For that I find the best way is to bash my head into it for a while. Then start that block of code all over again and try a different approach. I very quickly learned to version my code. It is not uncommon for me to have 5 or 6 main.c files at various levels of completion as I tried it one way and then decided that I was too dumb to get that way to work and tried it another way. Eventually I find one that works. Then I make a duplicate of that code in a new file and tackle the next step of the code. That way I always have working (but incomplete) code to fall back to should I mess up.
I actually wrote some code once for my embedded systems class that started to let out the magic smoke that makes the board run. I immediately fell back a version of my code and started the problem again ignoring everything that I had spent the last 6 hours working on. I regret nothing about "losing" that time, I just knew not to do that again.
I see too many people getting angry that they have spent 10+ hours trying to fix code that "should work". If I find myself getting mad enough to break something then I just fall back a version and try again. No reason to walk up a path that becomes a cliff halfway to the mountain peak, I'll just go back to the last fork in the road and try a different path.
Yeah, coding wasn't the most difficult part for me. Once I understood the problem I had to solve and got started with building classes or outlining my functions, it came together relatively simply.
I struggled with the math and more of the hardware aspects of CS, like creating a virtual operating system for our systems design class, or working things out on paper at the theory level, how many operations it should take to solve a particular problem, etc.
I don't do much with discrete mathematics, but I'm just going in on the whole "I like [field] better than calculus". The more I see of calculus and algebra, now that I'm getting them at a more advanced (for an undergrad) level, the more I like algebra.
I would much rather study groups, vector spaces (that have something besides polynomials as bases, thank you very much) whether finite or infinite, etc. than deal with horrendous bits of calculus to which I'm exposed these days. I realize that I deal with a bastardized version of calculus, and would probably enjoy the discussion in an analysis or advanced calculus course, but if I have to deal with another terrible integral I might be physically sick.
TL;DR physics student going through growing pains as I realize that "calculus" – as I deal with it – has turned into this monster and sucks compared to algebra
EDIT: Why does bolding make the text huge compared to the non-bolded text now?
Except it isn't.
Calculus has always felt very aggressive to me. It's a machine that slices things up and pushes things to infinity.
1.
Computer programmer here. I suck at calculus and trigonometry. Discrete logic is heaven. It's just bits and bytes :D
I enjoyed things like quantifiers and notation so I could write a fancy version of 'for all women there is at least one woman such that your mother's a whore'
no way. calculus MVP
You are me except I was a cook for several years before going back to school. By the third year I had finally figured out how to study. The first year was rough.
One tip: always did a second textbook on the subject and read a different explanation of the material. You will increase your understanding and those little gaps your professor skips over to make the assignment hard are often covered in the second book.
This was me also. In high school, I learned that all I had to do was show up and pay attention and I could do well in the material. College does not, obviously, work that way.
You can think of college classes as nothing more than a brief introduction to the material. A Cliff's Notes, if you will. Plus you can get a few high-level or detail questions answered. The real learning at college happens outside the classroom.
I believe my math sequence for my Computer Science degree went something like this:
Got a C in Calc I. Got a D, F, W, C in Calc II.
Switched schools, had to take Calc II again due to credit-hour mismatch.
Got BS in Comp Sci after about 15 years.
Started Mech Eng degree. Decided since I was no good at Calc I should take it over again since I had to have Calc III. So I took Calc I, II over again, then Calc III and Diff. Eq.
So I've had a fuck-ton of calculus from many different schools.
My main take-away from all that is this:
1) Calculus is calculus no matter if you are at a top-end school like Georgia Tech or a local community college.
2) You'll have a better experience at a community college because the person hired to teach calculus is there solely to teach calculus. It is not a distraction from their research.
3) You see those identity pages in the first few pages and last few pages in your calc text? Memorize them all the first week of school. "I can't memorize"? Bullshit. Make it your priority and memorize that motherfucker. When someone asks you the derivative or integral of sine or cosine you better know which one has the minus sign without hesitation.
4) The assigned homework is just a warm-up. The barest of bare minimums. You must and should do many, many, many more problems. Go find solution manuals for other calc books and sit down and do the problems. Do them over and over again until you can get them right every time and you understand them absolutely.
Good to hear you got through it, damn!
Khan Academy might have it. They have a lot more than can be found through their search, for some reason they fucked that all up, it's easier to search through google.
I'm in Calculus II and Discrete right now in my senior year of CS.
Can't wait to finally get a good nights sleep sometime in December.
Whatever you do, don't take Philosophy Math courses if they count towards your math credits. I thought it was going to be easy, because it's philosophy, how hard can it be, it's not actual math, right?
Nope. That shit will warp your mind. Some days I still question whether I actually finished the course or if I'm living in an infinity smaller than my reality.
I'm taking a computation/automata/language theory course this semester. It's not going so well.
You're scaring me into not going to college
Heh, college was pretty formative. Failure, even on a small scale, is a very good learning tool.
Just manage your time well, collaborate with similarly-minded people, don't get frustrated when you don't immediately understand something, remember to eat healthy and go to class. Isolate the problems you have and deal with them incrementally; give big problems the most time, but don't put them off. Solve all the small stuff first, even if its due later, so you have time and mental space to dedicate to the big stuff. Reward completing your docket of assignments with reddit or videogames or whatever. Don't procrastinate unless you are very very confident in doing something last minute.
I stumbled on counting.... I think it started in first grade... Got worse since...
Counting, as in discrete mathematics.
Goodluck on learning programming! Drop by /r/learnprogramming sometimes :)
Programming is to CS as a telescope is to Astrophysics.
I've always heard "computer engineering is to computer science as a telescope is to astronomy."
A computer science degree that does not involve programming is like a degree in theoretical farming. It may as well be a degree in logic, because that is all you would discuss.
I think most CS programs have a course on programming
and his point is that astrophysics programs don't have courses on teleskopes (they don't, do they? I'm actually not that sure xD)
Oh sorry my bad! That was stupid of me
But really, while there is programming in a CS degree, it is solely to execute algorithms, which is the primary purpose of the study - the mathematical understanding of algorithms. Really, I feel my CS degree was more an exercise in logic than programming.
Blargh, I dunno why I read CS as software engineer. My bad.
The actual quote is "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Claimed to be Dijkstra that first said it.
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Out of curiosity, how much programming have you've done? It amazes me that people fail a simple interview question like fizzbuzz. This is answer is solid gold.
Jesus that answer to fizzbuzz is cringeworthyly good.
Fuck, I don't think "cringeworthyly" is even a word, but that's how I would describe it.
Wait till you get to the moon runes.
Computer Science is a bubble
I hear ya. Applied Mathematics major here, 45 years old. Sometimes I ask myself: WTF are you doing? Of yeah, I hate my fucking job.
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Manufacturing in the semiconductor industry. Pay and benefits are very good, but the hours are difficult and a lot of the people are a bunch of miserable fucks. Fortunately my employer pays 100% education costs as long as I get a B or better. Years ago I was a physics major; never finished though.
I'm a PhD student in maths, but I love to procrastinate. Feel free to send me any questions you might have about algebra!
Intro algebra was much harder for me than stat/trig/etc. At least with the higher level maths you have a basis to work with. When you haven't done math in years mother fucking rational expressions will ruin your fucking life.
I sat through several tries of mandatory calc and trig before I succeeded. Most of the time I sat with my hair clutched tight between my fingers screaming "I'M A FUCKING HISTORY MAJOR, I DON'T NEED THIS SHIT TO BE A LIBRARIAN!" in my head.
I'm three semesters into my MLIS program and I was right.
It's only useful to engineers and the like.
You and me both. I'm feeling this whole thread right now
I have to take a placement test before the next semester begins. I was at another school and I placed into remedial fucking math. Whole numbers n shit. To be quite honest I just breezed through the test so my fault but damn it I dislike math. I rather wash 100 loads of laundry than math ugh
I actually had more trouble with college algebra than I did with trig some of those functions are annoying
"minutia"
Autocorrrect has a sense of humor
Try doing a class on grammar
Im about half way through Calc I my self. I started college taking developmental math. If there is one thing I have learned between then and now it is not to question anything. Do ask why a formula exists. Just figure out how to use it. If you are the type of person who needs to always know "why, why, why" you are going to have a hard time in math. I know that sounds awful, but I've managed to pull straight A's with that mind set so I guess it works.
Text books are awful at giving background information on anything. They tend to just give you a formula, have you fill in the blanks, and solve. Its best to just accept that these formula's work via the power of magic and that's that.
God that's the worst math advice I've ever fucking heard.
I think this guy is in charge of the math department of every public school in the US.
All of my college courses emphasized concepts over equations. Most math/physics/chemistry exams I took provided an equation sheet specifically because they didn't want you wasting time memorizing shit.
There's a subtle difference, though. You need to know why (/when) you would apply the equation, not why the equation is what it is. The latter is usually an unanswerable question.
So, I'm not really sure why /u/Cheaba is getting downvoted... he's right.
This is very true for my Chemistry courses. I remember taking Chem II and in that course there are a lot of formulas dealing with logs. I knew very little about logs at the time. All I knew was that if I typed this formula into my calculator that it gave me a number that equaled the concentration of a solution or something.
I had no idea what a log was really, but that didn't matter. All I had to know what what step in the problem to apply it so that I got the correct answer.
I had no idea what a log was really, but that didn't matter. All I had to know what what step in the problem to apply it so that I got the correct answer.
Similarly, you had no idea why the equation existed, just that at a certain step in the problem you'd apply it because somebody told you reality behaved that way.
Most of the people replying to you are guilty of what they are deriding you for, so the comments are kind of funny.
You've never done proofs?
No, I have.
This seems like a really great way to ensure you never do anything useful with math, and can never get past the calculus level.
fortunately that's all I need for the degree I'm seeking.
I'm not being sassy here, I legitimately hope you are capable of dealing with the more difficult integration problems that'll be thrown at you farther down the line. I have no earthly idea how you'll manage those just by memorizing formulas. At some point the rubber meets the road and you have to tear this shit apart brick by brick to be able to even perform the arithmetic.
This is where knowing your strength and weaknesses come into play. I know I'm not a math person. That's why I made sure to pick a degree that doesn't require me to take anything past calc I like Linear Algebra which require much more abstract thinking. Im 3/4ths of the way through my calc class and still pulling an A so I should be good. I made sure to research my proff before taking the class and discovered he doesn't give finals, and sometimes gives curves, so that should help as well.
Its all about playing the game. :)
I'm not going to argue with you, but I will say your results are highly unusual. Also, I can't believe you found a professor who doesn't even bother to give finals. That's insane!
Its all about playing the game. :)
In other words, he got, lucky and got a lazy professor. "If you can do that, you can do this" type of deal. Do the homework, I'll pass you. It can be cool in some classes, but I think comprehension should be mandatory in any science or math class, if you want a passing grade.
Are you kidding me? The process of performing integration (and many other "complex" operations) is a mechanical procedure. It's entirely possible for him to ace calculus and go beyond it without deeply understanding the material. How do you think Mathematica or Wolfram Alpha works?
There's actually a rather popular set of steps for solving integrals that goes like "first try process a, then try process b, then ..." which will select for you a process which is something equally as braindead. You just remember the prerequisites, steps, and interpretation of the validity of the results. You don't understand them. You remember them.
Wha... how did you get past verifying trig identities without a fundamental understanding of why those identities exist?
Or...anything? He doesn't.
You just memorize the steps.
You can't just memorize the steps to verify an identity. That's like trying to memorize the steps to writing a song.
I'd agree with you, but...
Ok, maybe I should have said "good" song.
That is terrible advice. There's a reason you had to start with developmental math.
I started in Developmental math because I didn't pay attention in high school, and I had a little break between high school and college.
Yeah, you were lazy then, and your way of learning is lazy and ineffective now. If your calculus class were worth the money you're paying for it you would fail.
Filling in a formula is what I'm trying to resort to....problem is I forget stuff.
If you are going anywhere past calculus this is exactly the wrong attitude. Hell, even in calculus you should be asking why and making sure you know how the formulas are proven. That's almost entirely what calculus is. It's like the philosophy of higher math. Trust me, the farther you go, the better off you will be if you ask "why" now. I've got differential equations on lock because I asked "why" in calculus. I've got Laplace's equation on lock because I asked "why" in differential equations. I can rock down Scrödinger's equation and the relevant eigenstates because I asked "why" in linear algebra. I can do electrostatics because I asked "why" learning Legendre polynomials. It's one thing to be able to regurgitate a formula, but later on it gets to be way too much to fake if you don't understand what you did to get there. You will save yourself an exponential amount of time later on by really understanding it now, and you'll actually be able to fully understand later concepts which may be necessary in the career you want.
Also, some textbooks suck, but most of them are actually pretty decent. Reading them is a skill, and it must be learned like anything else. Once you can read them though, again, you'll be so much farther ahead for it. My calculus instructor made us interpret the theorems in the book, and I hated it at first, but god damn if it didn't help me a hundred times more than it hurt at the time.
I only need calc I for my degree. Ive already thought about this. Everything you have said it totally correct if I planned on going past calc I, but up until the end up calc I you can get by on just following the steps for the most part.
One of the main points of my post was that colleges and college text books are awful at answering those why questions. Hell it wasn't until Calculus that my text books actually started to put proofs into them which explained why a certain formula exists. I really have no idea why lower level math courses don't focus more on proving and giving history. Its practically nonexistent in algebra. For example something like the quadratic formula is never explained in algebra. They show you how to use it, but they never teach you why it exists.
Its kind of infuriating to think about really, and that's why I stopped questioning. I just do what ever I need to do to get an A and that is that.
Well that's a terrible way to look at it. Half the beauty of math is understanding how an equation gives you 'that', how 'this' means that thing works this way and so on. I'm far from being a math person, but you really have to learn to take advantage of anything you can get from a "useless" class. I don't ever see myself using half the shit I learn in school but subconsiously there's a lot of things going on that a 'useless' class can help you improve if you approach it the right way. Math is a tremendously good way to build on your critical thinking skills, so why settle for just memorizing shit for the sake of getting an 'A'? If you're worried about how something will be useless because it won't be applicable in your future in the "real world", sorry to break it to ya, but that 'A' will mean jack shit in the real world. Any critical thinking skills you gain from that class will, however, be very, very, usefull. Just my two cents.
I know an A is meaningless in the real world, but I need A's because I plan to transfer into another program when I'm done getting my associates, and GPA is a huge factor in determining if you get accepted. So if I could spend 3 more hours trying to ask "why" or spend 3 more hours studying something else that I really need to study, I'm going to spend my time studying that other thing.
Honestly math past Algebra is a fucking waste, can I get 4 years of health instead of Alien language that will never ever be used again
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As an engineer, I think it would do society more good to have mandatory health classes past Algebra than it would to have mandatory math.
Shut up and accept the next generation flooding into your career field.
I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not, but this isn't what would happen because our math classes (and schools in general) are surprisingly poor at actually developing students. They just teach them facts.
So you prefer polynomials, quadratic formulas, and rational expressions over health. Please tell me how you can apply any of this shit in daily life unless it's your profession. I can't believe I'm getting downvoted, people really prefer more imaginary numbers than health. You're still in high school by your history, I'm gonna assume everybody else is too since they obviously don't know how to think
Math past Algebra isn't necessarily a waste, but if you are 100% certain you aren't going into a physical science then it is.
often times people study geometry after algebra, which is super helpful for logical reasoning and constructing logical proofs. Moreover as you move into calculus, the conceptual elements of rates of change is also not a wash. Maybe these won't be factoring into day to day lives of non-scientist/engineers but the philosophies and ideas associated will be.
Are you fucking serious or a troll? It's hard to stress the importance of math even for someone who isn't specialized field buuuut
Algebra:
Want to figure out how to split a dinner bill four ways? You're going to do 4x = $180 and arrive at x = $45 a person! Basic algebra is what is expected at even the most basic levels of education.
Calculus:
Your speedometer in your car? It calculates the instantaneous velocity of your vehicle! Calculus is so important to everyday life that I cannot fit everything into this paragraph. From economics to physics every decipline uses Calculus heavily, its simplicity and effectiveness is used by everyone every day.
Geometry:
Need to figure out if your luggage case is a carry or or a check bag? You're going to have to find it's dimensions and maybe volume! Geometry is the study of shapes and we live in one big world of shapes and if you want to be able to put them together correctly you'll rely on Geometry!
Combinatorics: Saw a hit and run but only got a partial viewing of the license plate? You'll need Combinatorics to help you figure out just how accurate you're guess is of the possible suspects! Combinatorics also helps us with things like password security and finding optimizations!
There's so much more in the world of mathematics; Logic, Number Theory. And I haven't begun to touch on what is considered applied mathematics. Don't listen to this loser, it's all very applicable and very important. You'll find yourself seeing the world differently after diving deep into it.
Wowzers, are you the fucking troll? Splitting the bill, wow my 5-year-old can do that. Speedometer in your car, retard it does it for you, that's like figuring out exactly what any other device does. Luggage or checkbag? Dafuq that has nothing to do with Geometry, that's common sense. Measuring Volume/dimensions, what the hell am I a carpenter? All of these stupid examples are common sense, you don't have to apply the hard bullshit equations to these things you are saying. Combinatorics, retard, you're not the one who's going to do it, the program is already setup, this shit is the same example as your speedometer explanation.
Perhaps it is a common issue.
High school student here. Can confirm; this question was on my last test.
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Chinese primary school student here, I used it to figure out the mathematical meaning for my own existence just last weekend!
Not that hard you exist 'cause your parents banged.
The answer is just Juan cupcake
I am taking an online course in calculus on Coursera...
The course is something like that:
"Oh, the limit approaching 0 of (x+5) is easy, since the limit of 5 is 5, and the limit x is whatever you are approaching, thus it is 0, so the limit is 5!"
Then I went to the quiz section: what is the limit approaching 5 of (x^425+x^32+x^228102+x251+521+squareroot(x)*21)/5-x ?
My reaction of course is "AAAAH, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT????" (answer that I found out later: it is a polynomial... the course expects you to remember boatloads of polynomial formulas, the thing is, this is not stated ANYWHERE, it just throw these random questions at you, the examples given by the teacher come nowhere this in complexity)
High School student here, doing 6 hours of math a week and it's mostly experienced like this.
you could say it's their greatest common factor.
It's how I feel about Chemistry in college. Chemistry in high school? Easy. I don't know what happened in college, but chemistry decided to take a turn for the worst. I think it's mainly the professor, because our final is a standardized, multiple choice test and it's much easier than any of the tests he gives us. He probably just gives hard tests.
I'm not the only one though... our class average is a 33/100... a 33%. Some people have gotten 0% and 2% on tests before.
Yes. People commonly don't study for math and subsequently fail so badly on tests that they consider the questions gibberish.
Some instructors also add new concepts to tests as well, which may be another reason that prompts it.
They don't add new concepts, they ask questions in a new way to see how well you understand the concepts already learned. It's a new application maybe, but not a new concept.
The thing is, a lot of them don't teach you how to apply it in different ways either, or in a manner that allows you to do the same. They often teach it by the book, formulaically, in very black and white, if-then terms.
I've definitely had teachers give tests that (for example) require you to invent integrals for the last question (you haven't been taught them yet)
Its always the last question. That lil fucker.
In order to "test what you know for the new quarter/unit/whateverthefuckyoucallit" most likely. The problem is... It's for a grade on the stuff you just got done 'teaching' us, sooo.... There's that.
You are telling me your professors in classes like Calculus added new concepts to the tests without having done it at all before in class or mentioning it in homework or anything? Provide me with an example of this.
A ton of professors do it in college. Its like this; lets say, for example, the professor spends two months teaching you multiplication. 1x1, 2x2, 7x8, etc. A difficult HW question would be something like 9x13-7+12x2 or something like that. The test comes along and you're expecting to see mostly difficult questions that require studying to do well on but are hard enough to take up the time allotted for a midterm/test, which is usually the entire class period (or at least half of it). Instead you're greeted with a problem like 25x14/36-12^2. You're sitting there thinking, god dammit professor, you never even taught us division, let alone how to deal with square roots! What the fuck!! Then the results come back and the class average is a 43% and the professor bitches about how no one studies in his class. Basically my (albeit exaggerated) college experience in a nutshell. All i'm saying is give us time to wrap our minds around a new concept before slapping it on a midterm and using the excuse "Its the same principle just a different concept, you should know how to do this by now" to cover up your shit teaching. Maybe I just had some shitty professors...
There is a square in your example, not a square root. Just saying. A square is multiplication.
Or maybe you're a typical irresponsible student who wants to place all blame on the professors instead of owing up to the fact that their grade is 100% on them. And I ensure you that you have not gotten an exam where there was something that you have completely not learned.
Either you're a teacher or a bit of a suck up. My experience is the same as his, only on top of that, the math teacher will be foreign with a very strong accent that is often indecipherable, often with TA's that also have a strong accent. My experience is that teachers don't give many shits about the teaching aspect of their job, and are not hired for being good at teaching, but only for being good at what they do, and publishing their research for the school.
I go to a research school, too.
I am in a 500 level statistics course with a professor that gives notes that are essentially useless other than to reference as what will be on the exams. This doesn't change the fact that it is 100% my responsibility to be prepared and get good grades. I wouldn't be where I am today if I was some little baby that threw a fit whenever I got stuck with a bad teacher instead of hitting the fucking books.
You all have some serious growing up to do and the worst part is just how common your mentality is and just how convinced you all are that it is an OK way to think. This is college. It is on YOU. And again, you have not and will not ever receive an exam with something you are literally incapable of because it literally has not in any way been covered.
To emphasize this: I can't do this/I don't remember seeing this =/= we never learned it
Good for you.
Yeah I'm pretty sure a lot of bullshit is being spewn by people who think they're geniuses but just didn't fucking read their material.
Yep. Entitled freshman/sophomores that still haven't left highschool mentality.
Switching how variables are given is a common tactic in my engineering classes. Some thermodynamic property equations do not allow reverse operation and if you are given different variables from those you practice and never having to memorize complex integrals to solve otherwise, shit gets real.
Do you mean switching dummy variables? Like using z instead of x in a function you are used to seeing with an x? If so, then if you are complaining about that then that is just obscene.
No, for example, I mean when you are calculating entropy change in a adiabatic turbine system and all the equations in the textbook/notes say that either a constant "n" is needed or that the process is isothermic, then on the test the question does not give a constant "n" and there is a temperature change so you have to tweak five different equations to find the heat exchange...yeah, that shit right there really grinds my gears.
I have never taken your class so I can't really understand what you are saying but it seems you knew what to do and it was something you learned so what the fuck is your point other than "but muh exams are so harrrd!!"
Whoa dude, calm down. I learned how to do it (along with the rest of the class) when the teacher explained it after he handed back the test. He decided to give us an extra credit opportunity because almost the entire class got the question wrong. I'm not gonna explain any more how a decent amount of test questions introduce new concepts on tests, if you were an engineering, physics or chemistry grad student you would understand, I don't know if other subjects test differently.
Introduce new ways of applying concepts you already know, you mean?
ok, in the hard sciences (non-theoretical) there are these things called equations that we use to solve for certain variables. We are taught to look for given variables then apply the correct equation to solve for one or a set of other variables. Here is where it gets tricky, when the test does not give a certain variable, the one that all of the hw/notes/hours of studying have taught us would always be given, the problem becomes fucked. Now here is the difference between "real world application" and testing, I don't have a computer or textbook in front of me during the test, I have to memorize all the equations I believe I will need for my test. So to answer your question, yes it is a new way of applying concepts you already know, which would be great for a project or homework or something you can use a reference source for. But, when your teacher tells you to memorize all the equations you will need for the exam and one of the questions on the exam asks for something that was not covered in the notes, hw or quizzes, it is impossible to solve for that problem. So going back to your original question, there is an example of a question that can blindside you.
Ok, now I'm really done because I have to work on my thesis, smell ya later homie.
Usually its that theres no examples or problems beforehand that mix all the concepts at once and therefore make no sense. Stats did this EVERY. TIME.
Provide me with a single example.
Oh of course, here let me just whip out my high school math test that I have still.
Seriously dude.
But it happened EVERY time!
Hyperbole is lost on nuisances like you. Now, if you want to have an example, go take a fucking class. What youre asking for doesnt even make sense because id have to provide the course material an a test in order to prove it. So you are also asking for a paradox because "one example" requires every single example from the class + the "one example" from the corresponding test. Please, have a nice day and fuck off
You said it happens in stats all the time. I am getting my MS in Stats, so I imagine I can understand your example. Just face the fact you are pushing all responsibility away and putting all blame on your teachers for not being properly prepared.
I never said I was the most prepared student with an apple for the teacher every day. I said every test would always have a section that was some crazy composite of the things we'd learned and basically become a game of luck on which order you decide to apply the steps to get it right. The worst though was one problem (which to his credit only had 5 points out of a 100 point test) where our teacher gave us information to find the a variable that we were usually given at the start. So all you had to do was reverse engineer the question right? Wrong, because he had only taught us how to do the problems with at least 2 out of 3 variables and the problem only had 1. A similar question had 4 variables but only 2 provided that were a step apart so it was sort of the same but easier to figure out. Maybe for you this problem would be easy but for someone that had just been introduced to this type of math relatively recently, it was maddening.
Is that legal?
Here you can't test students on things not on the curriculum. Which makes sense, what's the point of testing student's knowledge on things you've taught them if you haven't taught them the thing you're testing them on.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.
I'm a programmer and despite tons of learning I've done I routinely run into things that I've never experienced before that I have to use some tricky thinking and remember what I learned to solve. All the time. It's a good way to get people thinking that way.
Or they are dropping in after a substantial break in education and the teacher assumes the students have knowledge that may have been lost by then.
In a math classes the teacher has to assume the students have the prerequisites,otherwise they would never be able to get through all the material. If you have forgotten what you learned in the prerequisites it is your responsibility to review it.
In the vast majority of cases I completely agree with you, I was just pointing out another reason to xenthum why studying doesn't guarantee success.
I CAN BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU IN ANY ONE ON ONE COMBAT SITUATION YOU FUCKER
Probably. I'm not a violent person by nature.
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completely irrelevant role-play shit on a fucking public discussion forum.
You looking for serious role-playing buddy? You're right we should take this somewhere private ;)
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meh, I'm getting my masters in biosystems engineering...I disagree. After studying for a week, working through problems with the professor and really understanding the topics, switching up which variables are given and having none reversible factorial equations as your only equations to use... blindsiding has a high likelihood.
Someone on tumblr is right about something? (airborn particles, in an unfathomably unlikely event, convene and bond in precisely such a way to form a monocle on my face, which immediately pops off)
wat
saw this phrase on facebook like 5 days ago. this person is about as clever as Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m
Random!!!
Nobody fucking posts it.
holds up spork
Luv and waffles
Holds up spork
Probably because this is a post written by a high schooler (I'm assuming) on tumblr. It's pretty damn old too.
random werds just like math! who buys 20 watermelons lol X3
A caterer.
I always thought they were making it up when they said "reddit always steals our awesum content!1"
totally forgot /r/funny exists.
the why are you even reading their post? when people say stuff like this it just makes me laugh since the rest of us have never seen shit like this before because we don't look in the first place
My bad for browsing highly upvoted posts on the front page
Haha this is SO RANDOM!
That's because text books are written by committees of sociopaths that have never attempted to communicate with other human beings prior to getting together to decide how these things should be worded.
This was moderately funny and all, but I fucking HATE that tone like "...is a thing that exists" and deliberate "omg cant even" style sentences.
/r/TumblrInAction
sounds like high schoolers on tumblr are pretty funny
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A soul is, in fact, worth approximately 2.3 Zhu Li's.
Thanks. I didn't know there was another episode of A:LoK out.
Every friday! <3
Is it friday already?
Zhu Li! Do the thing!
NO! NOT THE THING!
How many LOK jokes are considered appropriate for a single reddit thread? Wan.
No, no, no, always Wan more.
Someone link us please?
go to nick.com
/r/thelastairbender
What's the conversion rate between Zhu Li's and cupcakes though?
It depends if you enter the void or not
whenever someone brings LOK into an unrelated thread I'm all like "I have friends here"
Isn't that most threads though, so that means you have lots of friends.
I've been out of the country on and off for a couple of years, so maybe I'm just excited I found out it was a thing.
Oh ok that makes sense
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There's a way to fix that :3
They're references to an animated tv show called Legend of Korra.
I have five Stanley Nickels for your 2.5 Zhu Li's.
2 Schrutebucks for the lot.
Five wooden dollars!
How does that convert to Varrick's?
Varrick is a unit of energy, and a Zhu Li is a unit of either mass or work (pounds or kilos). Probably its V = ZL*m^2 /s^2
1 Varrick = 1 Zhu Li / m^2 / s^2
Hmmm. I thought it was worth an arm and a leg.
Fool, its worth a few Picohitlers at most
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Pffft...it's "yuans"
And how many Things to a Zhu Li?
Oh thank god this is spreading.
'Don't wanna be the guy, but Zhu Li is actually a meassurement of weight or mass.
I was expecting the Wan jokes above but kudos for dropping the Zhu Li jokes.
How many Zhu Li's to a Guru Laghima?
One "Can't Even".
But how many shrute bucks is that?
Half a cupcake then?
3/5th of a cupcake.
Dammit, I thought it was vanilla, not chocolate!
Edit: My top comment was a pathetic, racist pun about American history. Not even mad.
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Vanilla Ice Ice Baby.
Add it some ice, baby
Johnny: Drop that zero and get with the hero!
Oh no you di'nt!!
Exactly, it's because of the flux compacitor.
Seems like a shitty compromise.
Well, if it a Missouri Cupcake you can have all you want South of the muffin top line.
I'm loving that I actually get these history jokes!
Haha me too. History, huh? Sure is humorous.
^^^^^I ^^^^^don't ^^^^^get ^^^^^them....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
Stupid mobile, I thought the comment I was responding to was responsing to this:
Well, if it a Missouri Cupcake you can have all you want South of the muffin top line.
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2l89d2/so_my_calculus_professor_found_this_posted_on_the/clsfx1l
I got the 3/5 thing.
Ah yes, the Cupcake Compromise.
Pi cupcake.
You'll get marked down for that. It has to be an answer with five significant digits.
0.60000 cupcakes
But is the cupcake chocolate or vanilla?
thats a racist ass fraction edit: i wanna make it clear im not calling you a racist but going pff your joke.
what's an ass fraction, and how can it be racist?
an ass fraction is the medical term for a diminished gluteus
how can a diminished gluteus be racist though?
racist-ass fractions: a fraction that is racist
http://imgur.com/axJmn
I don't usually fart when I hear jokes.
A soul is worth at least 1 donut.
Last I heard a soul is worth at least half a Mallomar.
Cupcakes are only sold in integer units. The answer is 0.
No. Cupcake>One human soul. This means that a soul can be worth anything under a cupcake, but cannot be equal to one.
Right, so half of one cupcake is less than one cupcake, thus one soul is still potentially an equal exchange for half of one cupcake.
Not all cupcakes are equally sized though.
Wrong. The answer is three, clearly as a Council Spectre who inadvertently, and irreparably altered the entire gene pool of the Asari, I would know a thing or two about triangles, souls, and calculus. I did, after all, stop the Reapers.
Is that you, Rincewind?
swing and a miss.
then why is every single shop on the citadel your favorite shop on the citadel?
I'm a sellout. Big whoop/and or surprise to everyone,wanna fight about it?
welllll, discounts are always good so I guess there's no harm in it.
I have no idea what the fuck you just said
It's from a video game: Darude Effect - Sandstorm
Shame Marauder Shields didn't stop you.
Ahhh, the ole reddit super terribly hard final boss switcharoo.
You sound more like Dwight from the Office than Commander Shepard
I mean, the first boss drops a thousand of them!
And a hammer if you do it right.
In the end, if you could buy cupcakes from Domhnall, the chosen one would be fat.
I see you're Canadian.
Is it because of "cupcakes"
And show all your work.
But it is worth at least 1 ALF pog.
Souls are so common that you can make them by accident. How often do you make a cupcake by accident?
doesn't this relate to whether hell is endothermic or exothermic?
But hang on is it multiple choice?
Depends upon if it's angel or devils food.
And a Costco muffin is worth more than a cupcake.
x cupcakes where x < 1 since something something calculus and 0 < x using something something calculus drivel...
So we are dealing with fractions... Great
25 Schmeckles?
Takes a surprisingly similar efforts to crush them both though
That's not true. It depends on the soul and the person you're selling it to.
If you have one standard human soul then you don't want to sell it to satan. He buys souls wholesale so unless you're selling in bulk you're not going to be making any money off of him.
Any of the major demons really aren't your best bet. You also don't want to sell one to someone that is just going to eat it. Selling a soul to a Wendigo is like selling them a meal. Though they'll pay a good amount for a gourmet virgin soul.
You could go the witch/gypsy route if you have a soul that is needed for a particularly powerful and rare spell, but to make a lot off of them is rough. More than likely they'll just try to kill you and take both you and the soul you're trying to sell.
I think your best bet is going with a collector who isn't going to view it as disposable. I mean sure you might be able to find an eccentric mortal soul collector. But I'd suggest just going straight to a lesser demon. They don't have the resources that greater demons do to buy wholesale. Plus the way that demon contracts are you could conceivably ask for direct payment in cupcakes, cut out the middle man. I mean obviously we all know how demons can be sneaking fine print into their contracts (a bit of profiling if you ask me, there are plenty of angels and other celestial beings doing the same thing but you never hear about those do you?), so you should probably consult a lawyer if you're going to go that route.
Aha! We have a ginger on our hands! Problem solved, everyone.
The answer is in the form of an expression representing an irrational number less than one.
Okay then smarty pants! What about this one??
If you're rowing your boat through the desert and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes can you fit in a box??
who the fuck tapes a tumblr post to their professor's office door
No one
Somebody who probably shouldn't be in college to begin with
People born after 1995.
If so many of you think this is a lame post THEN WHY IS IT IN MY FRONT PAGE. This and a fucking dishwasher. The fuck is wrong with reddit tonight.
Lurkers and people who browse the new queue seem to have a different sense of humor from people who comment.
That's definitely true. I think people who browse on mobile or are just looking at pictures and voting quickly move too fast to consider whether or not something is actually funny.
I mean, humor is kind of a gut reaction, I don't think it's unreasonable to just vote based on whether you laughed or not rather than doing a detailed analysis on the merits and cleverness of the joke.
But it's soooo random, lol
But not just a dishwasher. An INDUSTRIAL dishwasher! 90 secs a batch!
At least the dishwasher was technically a pic. This however… well it's about as funny as any of the other fucking bullshit posted to /r/funny.
Maybe only a few of the comments and votes are real and the rest are faked to make reddit seem populated with users and that's why this has a 90% upvote ratio despite all the hate. /puts on tin foil hat
/r/im14andthisisfunny
That reminded me of "I'm 12 and what is this," man, those were the good old days, thanks.
I'm 21 and I find it funny- because it's true.
This is the student who studies by reading the problem, getting frustrated in 2 seconds and looking at the answer then going "oh yeah, I totally already knew that. I'm gonna ace this test".
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Teachers hate him!
No, seriously. Teachers hate dumb ass kids like you.
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Well how was I supposed to know? Rachel could be a guy's name.
There is a lot of that about.
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You forgot to take into account air resistance....common mistake
No, you always disregard air resistance, always.
Can confirm. In high school I had a student teacher during a probability section ask what the odds of getting a specific color from spinning a needle on a wheel was and he got mad when I asked what the air resistance of the needle was.
You probably couldn't have taken air resistance into account then, and you probably can't do so now. Monty Python be damned.
Air resistance is just one of those extraneous tricks.
Yup. Air resistance is something practical physicists deal with, not theoretical mathematicians.
And frictionful, massful pulleys attached to a spring fixed to a barrel on a ramp with the coefficient of friction between them being Mew = 151th Pokemon; printf("\nI can't wait til Christmas.\n"); }
Eso es racista!
But how can it be racist if race is just a social construct? Checkmate atheists.
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that!
Bread goes in, toast comes out. Never a misconception.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.
The Tentacles... never mind.
The creeps on the buss go round and round
Bill O'Reilly puts his penis hole on your snout.
Correct. But he can charge his staff of frosting, taking any cupcake he wants by force.
Trying too hard.
Why do you begin the title of the post with the word "So"?
When i do that in conversation it's because I'm changing subjects without a segue
So I may have had intercourse with a Tiger last night.
This guy's got it
Well he does have PhD in Internet.
Tiger herpes?
No actually that was just a guy in a suit
Tiger should be the name for an Asian cougar. ©
Aww, damnit! It's even copyrighted now, guys! We can't use it!
Fucking brilliant bastard.
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Who's where you supposed to eat?
Might have.
We aren't in a conversation.
"A tiger sitting on top of an elephant's back" is an appropriate title for a picture that fits that description. I will look at it.
"So, I was looking at this elephant ... this happened." is annoyingly coy to strangers for no reason. Stop writing like fucking clickbait advertisers.
I really hate the word segue. I know how it's pronounced, but I always read it as "SEEG" in my mind's internal audio book.
I enjoy saying "oh that reminds me" and then proceed to talk about something completely different. On very few occasions people wonder how did I leap from one topic to the other.
It's probably a habit that transfers over from regular conversation where people use it and other certain words to grab attention to suggest that not what the word they are saying right this moment, but the very next words, will be important and they should pay attention to what comes next.
They know damn well the answer to their question. They just wanted an excuse to call OP out on it
Only serious and correct answer. I've seen this annoying habit on reddit since the beginning on /r/funny pics, and the other shitholes. Its merely an attention grabber subconsciously.
Quality post. It's one of those words that is common enough, but difficult to describe when you want to get at the real meaning of it. You did so nicely.
You need to go buy a kitten.
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That is so fetch.
Stop trying to make 'fetch' a thing.
He's trying to put the pussy on the chainwax
Why do you care so much?
That's so rufus.
Yes, this can be a thing.
Or an excellent adventure.
You're so Raven.
hes totally a jabroni
Cool word
he totally borked your Mom last night
http://brokeassstuart.com/wp-content/pictsnShit/2014/08/Sad-Dog-Cute-Broke-Ass-Stuart-NYC.jpg
this kids don't even know.
Fine. That's so tractor.
That's so Raven.
"Okay. So, like, right?"
I'm embarrassed to confirm that. Am female and do speak like that occasionally.
"totally!"
"So... OK, no"
Okay, there might be some truth to that
Especially if they begin it with both of those words
And end with a <3.
:) lol
Even both of them?
Exception:
H'okay, so: here's the Earth.
¡Hola señorita!
Okay, let's not jump to conclusions there buddy.
Ok, so what's that supposed to mean?
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What emoticon, all I see is ice cream.
Hi, linguist here! This is a phenomenon known as the discourse particle!. They exist to show the attitude of the speaker or to provide a link with an overshadowing context.
My enemy has a name. Good to know. Damn you, DISCOURSE PARTICLES!
Cunning!
It's a conversational filler word. Something people add to the beginning of a sentence to stall for time while their mind processes what they are going to say.
Why do you need that in writing?
I write pretty closely to how I talk/think, personally. Lots of "like"s and "so"s.
Stop doing that. Take the extra second to write clearly so people can understand what you are trying to convey.
so people can understand what you are trying to convey.
You're being pedantic about a minor thing that does nothing to obfuscate meaning. You can sometimes understand what they are trying to convey better by them writing in the same manner in which they speak. That's not to say there's no benefit of being clear and concise, while avoiding gratuitous typos and the like, but there is nothing inherently superior about writing in a "perfectly proper" manner. It is simply poorer writing to do so. Emotion or the individual's thoughts can be lost or watered down in the process.
Holy shit paragraph man. Edit Wikipedia or something.
Beep boop beep. Conversational phrasing detected. I am unable to comprehend your poorly constructed speech-like sentences. Please rephrase properly.
"What an elaborate paragraph. You must consider editing for the website titled Wikipedia."
Kind of pointless to nitpick something like that, especially when adding "so" expresses the same message and clarity as removing it.
What if, like, I typed, like, like this, like, all the time? I think, like, it would express, like, totally the like, clarity as if I like, removed the likes.
That's an unfair comparison. Adding a "so" in front of a sentence doesn't change the meaning at all, and I don't believe for a second that the title confused you at all because of it. It's just such a petty thing to mention, since the phrase is not even grammatically incorrect.
But if you're still unconvinced, here's an article that I randomly pulled from the internet.
So there.
To be annoying.
You know what really bugs me, when people start with "I mean." I mean, if people use the term to further explain a point they've already started, I'm ok with that. But when they preface what they're about to say, it's pointless. Of course that's what you mean, that's why your'e about to say it. Don't get me wrong, I do it all the time myself, it's just s stupid pet peeve.
It gives an air of casual, ordinary communication before a sentence that virtually always describes something quirky and unusual, attempting to increase the shock value. Of course, by now it's been so overdone it's actually more shocking not to see someone trying to be quirky after a "So" beginning.
Because the word "So" is a thing that exists. Also, if you flip the "S", "So" looks like 20. While "So" doesn't have any triangles, if you throw a triangle out of a car, it spins in a way that makes it look like "o", which is also the last letter of Pedro and coincidentally how cupcakes look like from above.
Tumblr.
Harry Shearer has an entire segment on his radio show/podcast pointing this out
And why does he end it with "by a student"?
Was there a student nearby when the teacher posted it? Why would that even matter?
I think it's a tumblr thing
Cause it reached the front page captain 2 link karma
SO WHAT
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You know that -ly is generally what makes an adjective turn into an adverb, right? You can't use so in it's place at all. It was an amazingly awesome day. It was a so amazing awesome day. Do you speakly so English?
Why do you care? I seriously want to know this. I want to try and understand the mentality of fucking pretentious pieces of shit like you.
Do you want to borrow some butt cream
No.
Do you want to know why I asked you if you wanted to borrow some butt cream
I know why.
It was stupid and you didn't get the response you wanted.
He wanted any response. And you gave it to him. Now what's the word on that butt cream?
It's because you were butthurt
/r/shitpost
Who upvoted this shit
Kurt confirmed for having shit taste.
Everyone posts something in this format to their Facebook at some point during high school...its not funny anymore guys
Holds up spork
Please no
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me … im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
love and waffles,
t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m
Aaaaand I'm out of remission.
Greetings, everyone. I am new. (One second – let me get this spork out of the way.) My name is Katy, but you can call me the Penguin of Doom. (I’m laughing aloud.) As you can plainly see, my actions have no pattern whatsoever. That is why I have come here. To meet similarly patternless individuals, such as myself.
I am 13 – mature for my age, however! – and I enjoy watching Invader Zim with my girlfriend. (I am bisexual. Please approach this subject maturely.) It is our favorite television show, as it adequately displays stochastic manners of behavior such as we possess.
She behaves without order – of course – but I wish to meet more individuals of her and my kind. As the saying goes, “the more, the merrier.”
Ah, it is to laugh. Anyway, I hope to make many friends here, so please comment freely.
Doom!
That is simply one of many examples of my random actions. Ha, ha. Fare thee well. I wish you much love and waffles.
Yours,
The Penguin of Doom.
For some weird reason, Elijah Wood was the voice I heard in my head when I read this.
I heard Stephen Fry.
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Hmm, this is good, but I'd have chosen an em-dash over a spaced en-dash, given the conversational tone.
She behaves without order – of course – but I wish to meet more individuals of her and my kind.
versus
She behaves without order—of course—but I wish to meet more individuals of her and my kind.
To me, the latter just feels more distant from the original, as spaced en-dashes seem to imply a staccato, newspaper-esque choppiness rather than the smooth flow of a letter or novel, which I think would be better for this adaptation.
I didn't create the it, just in case you were thinking I wrote it. Found a copypasta variation on KYM http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m
Sorry for the confusion! I made the thing a quote now.
The paragraph breaks really seal the deal.
I'm not sure I've ever not downvoted this copypasta.
Question. The _^ at the end. Was it that way in the original copypasta, or did they paste \^_^ into Reddit without a backslash which made it ^_^ , which has been thereafter pasted as _^ since copying and pasting ignores the fact that it's a superscript?
It's even _^ on Know Your Meme, but if they got their copy of it from Reddit then that doesn't help.
you are one of the worst users on this site
holds^up^spork
This has actually started making me nauseous to read.
t3H CUPC4K3 of D00M!
It's too late for me to be laughing this much at such plain statements.
le random
There is no spork.
There's a proverbial spoon in the bathroom.
Lel, look at me im so randumb
Usually, when I see something that isn't funny posted to r/funny, I just let it go. This is not funny.
What's it like being a calculus professor and destroying people's dreams?
Calculus isn't even that hard... If idiot high school kids can do it, you can too.
No he didn't
Humor is such an integral part of math class. Although I've seen this type of joke many times before, I'm glad this was posted even if it is highly derivative.
You just have to be able to differentiate between what's actually been derived or not.
Just as long as we don't go off on TANGENTS.
It depends if there is a limit to the continuity of this thread.
If I learned anything from Mean Girls, it's that the limit does not exist.
I came here to say this goddamnit
Watching Mean Girls is a (1/csc).
The limits are purely imaginary.
I'm sure it's more complex than that.
We'll get to the root of it.
math.
Man, fuck tangents. Those things never end.
Oh god damn it. I don't know why I wasn't expecting that.
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I just need a sine that these will stop..
This thread is a series of awful puns.
Why do we function the way we do? Cos it's the right thing to do. Sum people really don't get it, and I am series about how trigging dumb they are. I'm like, what DiffEQ.
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I hope you logged in with a natural logarithm.
Seriously, before we get off on a tangent.
Sure. Just cosine this petition with me.
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I think you mean differentiable.
Pun.
I'm impressed with how you managed to add a math pun to every clause.
I see what you did there, you clever rascal
I seriously fucking hate you
haha le epic funny random math question!! xDD
Isn't it scary that so many people are proud of being bad at math?
Yes. Obama admitted on TV that he couldn't do math past the 8th grade. He is the leader of the freakin free world but somehow he thought it was OK to say this on the Jay Leno show.
He should do what physicists do: "Assume that the triangle is a sphere in a frictionless environment..."
This is why I failed physics, I would sit in the exam going "HOW? HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN!?"
42
you have restored my faith in the internet
can't believe no one knows the name of this type of quiz:
Fermi problems (Questions):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Exactly my experience earning a degree in Economics
holy crap, you reminded me of when I once sat in on an economics lecture between classes. It was a very large class, and within minutes the mind numbing drivel nearly drove me nuts. However, I felt as if I shouldn't leave the class, as everyone was focused on the nonsense that was being put forward. Eventually I bolted, and am still emotionally scarred from that experience.
Welcome to common core where learning is as irrelevant as putting snow chains on a car in Australia
42.
Derive a proof for the existence of electrons in 7 words exactly. Do not use the letter E.
Small parts of atoms flow, making amps.
Nice haiku, but doesn't prove anything
C-
In my experience the students that feel this way don't spend that much time working problems, and understanding the material. In lectures and examples the problems are more simple since they are designed to illustrate principles. The problems in homework, and on tests are there to test your ability to apply those principles. The problem with this students line of thinking is they don't get that math is not about following a step by step procedure and getting an answer. It is about being able to actually understand a problem and know how to define where you want to go, and then figure out how to apply the tools at your disposal to get there.
and I am in no way attempting to be on my high horse about this or be insulting. It took me two semesters of calculus to figure this out, Calc 1 got a fucking C. during the semester I took multivariable calc along with engineering and phsyics courses that use all the calc I have learned to this point I had a 4.0 semester.
Exactly. I always find that my grade in a math-heavy course is directly related to how much time I put into grinding through problems. I'm not one of those people who can see a concept once in class and then they're good for the test. I've got to repeat questions over and over, in every form and type.. even then, I can still screw up simple things.
Tests are generally compiled to test your understanding of the material, not whether or not you can memorize a step by step set of instructions. If you're not having "ah-HA" moments while you're studying, you're probably not doing it right.
It happened to me in first year, I'd run through the homework problems, go over examples we had in class.. but never really "get it", just going through the motions. It took failing multivariable calc to make me adjust my study habits. I fully understand now that the concepts are the important part. Without understanding the concepts, you're just a meat calculator.
Yeah, eventually I feel I have gotten to the point where I can actually apply principles without having to spend lots of time working problems. But I am in my last semester of an engineering degree. So almost every single class that is what I do. Apply principles to come up with a unique solution to a problem.
I'm not one of those people who can see a concept once in class and then they're good for the test. I've got to repeat questions over and over, in every form and type..
Pro-tip: Almost nobody can see a concept once in class and then be good for the test. Almost everybody needs to repeat questions over and over.
Frequently, the impression that some students "get it" immediately is an illusion. The students that appear to "get it" are spending lots of time on it.
To argue devil's advocate on this I've had lecturers that after a test only hand back a grade or a number and nothing more.
You just have to assume they corrected it and any mistakes you made are completely unknown to you.
Which is fine if the test is straightforward, but when they throw in trick questions with elaborate applications of what you've learnt only to turn around and say "You'll never know where you went wrong".. imho is kind of shitty.
Yup, coupled with the ignorance of "I'm not a math person" while dismissing anything math related because you didn't understand why "letters" were in math back in 7th grade.
Yep.
I know the sign is meant in a lighthearted way, and I risk being a joke-killer here, but I agree with you.
If a student subjectively feels like "This math problem makes no sense, they might as well be asking about Pedro and his cupcakes out of nowhere", then as you point out, it's likely that the student hasn't practiced enough and doesn't have a thorough enough understanding.
In fact, test questions don't usually have really glaring non-sequiturs. If a test question ends with "how many cupcakes", then either the question itself will mention or allude to cupcakes, or else there will be some relevant facts about cupcakes that have been covered in the course recently that you're supposed to know.
Test questions are sometimes designed to get students to think, so they might not be carbon copies of previously encountered questions. But test questions are not really going to be complete and utter non sequiturs as parodied here.
test questions shouldn't be carbon copies of previously encountered questions with just the values changed. That is worthless. In fact, I had a circuits professor ( I am an electrical engineering major) on a test do something where he completely defined a new component that doesn't actually exist in the real world. The entire point was to test students ability to apply the principles in new situations. In this level all you needed was the I-V characteristic to understand the problems you are presented with. and even though we haven't seen this I-V characteristic before we should have still been able to do the work. Where as students who memorized the relevant equations and examples would be screwed with this problem.
You do make the assumption of well formed test questions. Sometimes test takers make a mistake. I was once asked to integrate the error function and give the polynomial result.
Either the student didn't prepare, or the test questions are significantly more difficult than the homework, classwork, and study material.
I've had problems with both. Classes that had easy homework and difficult tests were the bane of my existence back in university. You end up unprepared for the tests even if you do all of the assigned work and study material.
It's funny, I just posted a very similar comment without reading the comments before. I'm in a similar situation that you were in, but I just figured it out this semester. Good thing I've got two and a half more years here. Just wondering, what kind of engineer are you?
electrical
Someone do the math. But I'm pretty sure it's like a dozen cupcakes.
12.01. You're wrong. Minus 30% of your test grade.
I tensed up with rage after that. Good job.
He didn't show any work either, so with a wrong answer, not even partial credit. Minus another 30%
THE 20 KM/H IS ONLY 1 SIG FIG ANSWER IS 10. HALF CREDIT
Mmmmm... Fig Newtons.
That's right 5x5 is 20 in this class. Deal with it!
Nope. The correct answer is 2 whole Marijuanas
What no partial credit!?
two!
no, six!
no, twelve!
BAKER'S DOZEN!
I don't know if this is a real condition or what, but I had literally that problem. No matter how much I studied, when the test paper was in front of me I had absolutely no clue how to solve the problems. I had no issues with other subjects, like language, history or something like that. But math/physics/anything that involves math - simply impossible. I have no issues coding and doing math functions with examples and manual pages. But if I need to improvise? My mind simply goes blink and I got nothing. Absolutely nothing. And the more I try to think and rationalize, the worse it gets before finally I don't even remember where I am.
Its gotta be the pressure. Because then i get the test back and we go over the problems and It's like how did I miss that.
Most likely, I'm not good under pressure. I found a solution for daily work though - I do multiple things at the same time. I need to switch from task to task every few minutes (I do IT stuff) to keep my head clear. If I try to concentrate on one thing too long, I get distracted, anxious and lose focus. If I do like 3-4 things at the same time at my own pace, they all get done properly and in time. Go figure...
I'm calling on /r/theydidthemath/ to actually solve this.
Did it, answer was 42
so... this .... this is the question??
I don't know how many times we have to go over this. The question is what do you get when you multiply six by nine.
Nobody writes jokes in Base 13.
Wrong, it's Jesus.
A total shitpost with 2700 karma..............wow
Just in my experience, if you think you know the information but don't do well in a test setting, it means that you really just haven't understood the concepts that you're learning. I'm in some higher level math and science classes and that's usually my problem when I'm lost in class or fail a test. You run into the problem where you can follow the examples and solve the math you've used before, but not the overly complicated examples. I've got a teacher from Russia who says that's the problem with american students, we get lazy and just follow pattens we see in the questions. We're either not taught properly or we don't learn the underlying concepts of the topic we're being tested on well enough. Personally I'm just a lazy, but that doesn't account for some of the teachers that are just assholes.
Actually a lot of profs from Russia and Eastern Europe tend to be assholes.
You'd be surprised how closely this approximates some math/physics problems....
Back in my 11th grade, I used to use a book called "Fundamentals Of Physics" by Resnick, Halliday and Walker. The problem below was one of the first solved example questions in the first chapter of the book
Suppose that,while lying on a beach near the equator watching the Sun set over a calm ocean,you start a stopwatch just as the top of the Sun disappears.You then stand,elevating your eyes by a height H=1.70m,and stop the watch when the top of the Sun again disappears.If the elapsed time is t 1.1s,what is the radius of Earth?
The question and its ridiculously simple solution blew my mind, I strongly recommend the book to anyone who has an interest in mathematics/physics .
Edit: a missing comma!
Aww did the retard get frustrated?
The answer is obvious: 42
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why did they print plain text as an image stretched to fit the page?
Where do you go to University?
I feel like screengrabbing your notes on iOS has become a thing because people don't know how to use word processors. Is this true? Why is this so common? I'm so old.
This one is actually pulled off tumblr, probably because the person who put this up is incapable of producing original material.
Can confirm. Am wind resistance.
Man they've got it all wrong. My classes are like, "hey here's this super fucking hard homework, good luck loser" and then everyone gets to the test and it's like, "hey here's a really easy question for you to completely overthink after you already spent way too much time practicing way harder concepts and problems that stressed you to no end."
The correct answer is shinty-six.
This is just bad teaching practice. At school the hardest problems in homework were much harder than the test questions. The homework is something to be completed in your own time, stress free (relative to a test). The test would usually have questions that ranged from the 50th to 80th percentile of difficulty of HW questions.
5, the answer's 5.
Pfft...easy, it's a trick question. Pedro doesn't even like cupcakes, he's a nachos guy through and through. Told me himself when we were eating nachos together at the nacho place. So the answer is nachos.
That would depend if Pedro is full ginger, half a ginger, or no ginger.
Truer words have never been spoken.
This is fake! No one writes like that. It's too clean. That papers clearly been photoshopped.
aaaaand welcome to the world of mechanical engineering!
That is so true. LOL thanks for making my day!
This happens with my physics tests
ha ha so funny... M= mental A= abuse T= to H= human
I share in that frustration.
In high school I thought I had algebra II in the bag every single test, because every single test I was so sure I understood I got it, despite the result of the previous test...which was utter failure.
I had to retake Algebra II the next year.
This kid did what everyone wanted to do!
Currently taking calculus, can confirm that this is 100% accurate.
being 2 classes shy of a math degree, can confirm.
The answer is, 5 cupcakes. (Pedro will be disappointed)
Seems like your calculus professor is pushing some variation of chaos theory really hard and way too early..or not.
I crack myself up, pls tell me someone else got that xD
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There's some game called chaos theory? Well, i mean, there are tons of games and even just real life events that display chaos theory as plain as day.. What game could I be referring to?
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You weren't wrong my friend, when I wrote that statement, the game plague came to mind.
Math is pointless if you can't apply this knowledge to real situations. All I see is a student crying out of his own incompetence.
I solved the equation.
Sin(Soul) / 20 - n^pi * Tan(Cake) + 1 * Pedro / cup + 20 * Human (Car * Resistance) - (Throw / Window) - Triangle = Formular for numbers of cupcakes.
By the looks of things, this guy hates english tests too.
Ah yes. Related rates...
If his students seriously feel this way it might be a communication problem. How math problems are communicated in the text book and how they are communicated on his tests are very very different and the disconnect is too much for some of his students.
It might be that the text or curriculum asks students to apply math the same way every time in study and then the tests, written by the professor, either uses different phrasing for the same application or the same math for a new application and the newness feeling during a high stress test plus throwing language comprehension at someone in math class can really fuck with someone.
A good way to avoid this is to have more variance in homework throughout the year.
Thank you for considering that possibility! Having aced probability and statistics last year, I'm in another course doing nothing but (course organisation fails, yay.) So are a group of other kids who did flawlessly last year.
We do all the homework, and find it easy because again we did this shit last year. First test from teacher who's never taught before? Everyone gets a 75%. The questions and the way he writes them are so different to everything we ever did before that we didn't know what to do.
42 obviously
If I've done my calculations correctly, the answer is 42. But then again my slide ruler is broken, so I may be off by a few thousand.
Math test be more like: good, and now do this shit as fast as if it's the only thing you have evey done in your life.
Seems like someone doesn't actually do homework, they just read it going, "yeah, that makes sense, I see what you're doing there."
And wind resistance is a thing that exists
I got some bad news for you
I'm dying of laughter now... I can't stop... Help me!!
This is why I love my calculus professor; because he tells us exactly what to be prepared for, he doesn't throw curveballs, omits things he knows we won't need for higher calculus while making us aware of them and letting us know where to find them, and is the only professor in the entire school to still use the board instead of my math lab software.
Illegal immigrant here! The answer is 1 cupcake each day before work, paid for, by the crop field manager.
If you can't apply what you learn in calculus, then you don't understand the material.
Well if we use the Charlie Daniels band fiddle(violin) of gold as the baseline for soul value then the volume of a violin is 873.8 cm3 if we apply that to gold it would be about forty pounds of gold that would be over 500K. Hostess Frosted Chocolate Cupcakes, 2 count retails at $1 dollar, so 1 million cupcakes?
The answer is 42.
Take the note. Put it on the door of his english teacher.
Satisfaction
My Math teacher commented once that Math tests were closer to english tests with the way they were written, if it was literally just numbers and formulas, it would be fine, but they add artificial difficulty by confusing you with scenarios.
Word problems are not inherently artificial. They are like real life in the sense that if you apply mathematics to real-world problems, the real-world problem doesn't "announce" what formula you should use. In real-life applications, you have to use your conceptual knowledge to decide what formula to use, and why. Real-life problems don't just hand the formula to you.
TIL that Pedro was elected class president because he made a deal with the devil over cupcakes. Napolean Dynamite is a darker movie than I thought.
So how many cupcakes can Pedro buy?
thats more like college physics
It's the exact opposite.
On the homework: "What's the magnetic force of a cosmic-shape loopty-loop solenoid have on a photon moving through its center, if the magnetic field derived its strength from radiation from the Hulk's liver?"
On the test: "Two iron stick with current 1 and 2 amps, find the magnetic field and the direction."
I should have spent Halloween drinking...
Yup, Just got done with my first midterm of phys 213. Still wondering why I even did the homework if the test is nothing like it...
This is really inspirational to me because I like to make excuses for why I'm bad at math.
Just Juan
That student? Albert Einstein
All joking aside, does anyone know why everything seems easy and in the test everything is suddenly hard as fuck and seems so different?
Are you doing the homework without looking at the solutions? Some students tend to look at the solutions quite a bit then are lost when no solutions are available.
No idea as I've never experienced that myself. I've heard my classmates saying that but I don't understand them. I feel like they just don't understand the underlying principles properly and that's why they can't see how similar the problems really are to the ones we've had for homework.
It depends. I think sometimes the teacher puts more difficult questions on the test to make sure you've mastered the material. That plus sometimes you can lose focus when testing and totally forget some of the material. I've had that happen before. On test day the test looked extremely hard, but then the teacher went over and reviewed each question and it was a lot easier than it appeared. Still difficult, but doable.
I think teachers challenge students to test their limit.
You were given the basics. Now I'll turn it upside down, inside out. Solve it. It's like playing Rubik's cube.
1+1 = 2
2x4 = 8
1+(5x4) = 21
Test: 2 x (30+2) - (5x4)+10
Like that.
I think it's the length. I'm very good at math and sometimes even enjoy doing it(like when I have a practical reason to do it) but even I get burned out doing an hour and a half of the same types of problems non-stop. I never had anything less than a B+ when the test was short <30 minutes but I take a huge hit with the longer tests. Also the eerie silence creeps me the fuck out. I just never learned how to deal with absolute silence. I lived in a old as fuck house with an open door policy with neighbors and family and friends in and out all day growing up. It was never silent not even when on the rare occasions you were alone. The house would moan and groan. Because of that I can now sleep through ANYTHING though. I slept through my neighbors house burning down and subsequently being put out last year. I can't even work from home without some kind of noise be it music, podcast, my beagle doing his fucking howl bark thing at my other neighbors cat.
playing devil's advocate here (I hate math more than anything), I not only teach in Japan but I went to high school here as well and the way they learn math in my opinion is not as practical or efficient.
They can't use calculators, absolutely everything has to be done by hand and there are no word problems.
They just do equations over, and over, and over. Then, their exam is basically just a sampling of equations they've already done. That's the education model here - teach the kids the answers to memorize and have them regurgitate. There is very little, if any practical application of the knowledge.
Which would you prefer?
this guy needs to learn math
And English.
Translated for effect: This class has been based on methodology utilising numerical problems. The situational context of this problem is unfamiliar to me. This is the gap between general knowledge and the application of scientific process. Unfortunately the criteria is rarely explained to students- this entails the complex reasoning portion of the exam.
Purple, because icecream has no bones.
Yes. This. Exactly.
Aww poor baby. Does he really think real life applications will spell out all of the exact conditions with no extraneous information that has absolutely nothing to do with the problem and that he will actually have all of the information required ( he may have to extrapolate ( That is math talk for guess) or look something up to even get started) - and actually tell him what formulas to use - and (a big and here) that the person who gave him the incomplete data to work with didn't lie. (BTW, the answer is 43)
Clearly, the answer is "He can buy 1 cupcake". The facts:
20 Kph is slow, meaning we're talking about driving in a parade
Throwing triangle finger gestures is something that only happens at Gay Pride parades
Obviously, Pedro is considering coming out of the closet at a Pride Parade, but is worried about his religious (Mexican Catholic) parents' reactions.
If he pretends to find a cupcake with Jebuz's image on it, and that magic cupcake tells him it's OK to be gay - his parents will be fine with it.
Pedro can be free to be himself (aka free his soul) with one cupcake.
1 Cupcake = 1 Soul
I mean, why do people find math hard at all?
As a calculus professor (assistant professor), I can say that most students share this sentiment. It is almost always due to lack of preparation. It is not enough to read the chapter and do the easy exercises.
My number one complaint for my kids too, and they are in primary school...test on what you teach, school system! I feel like the kiddos are being set up for failure :(
Just a quick tip with their education, teach them algebra as soon as they are old enough. Not understanding algebra in high school will set them back so much.
Really more of a physics question. But whatever.
Each and every though
But its not that bad because that question was on the study guide and your one smart friend walked you through it a lot and you remember the final answer but dont remember anything about the process and you think your ok anyways until you see those three fateful words.... SHOW YOUR WORK.
i bet albert einstein could do this. hes wicked smaht
I want to throw triangles out of a car. Where do I get these triangles?
Try harder
The answer is always 42
If is Vanilla , half of a soul - chocolate - full soul , I would kill a dude for a blueberry or lemon-poppy seed muffin.
I don't know man, I saw this on twitter a few days ago.
Lol that's how I feel when i get a maths test
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So answer the question son.
Wondering if one, say, dog soul would be worth more or less. What's the exchange rate of a human soul to other types of souls..?
3
Why's he worrying? The answer's 42. Everyone knows that!
I often felt that way
The answer is a tenth because inflation. Can confirm, am Japanese god.
Hmm, should we factor in the weight of the soul?
Can someone explain to me the first section? I've got the second question, It's easy I know how many cupcakes Pedro can buy but the first one got me all dizzy
Can someone explain me this comment
This is how I felt during the science portion of the ACT. There just didn't seem to be enough information for my puny mind.
three!
Why would the President need to buy a cupcake?
The student who write this should attempt to become a story teller.. a Writer.. a novelist!
math is only fun when you get it, which is almost never
Clearly you forget to do extended Problem Set number 4 part A section 2 diagnostic 35, which addressed this very issue. After all, you were warned the test was to cover the entire chapter and extended problem sets. That student has only himself to blame.
Poor Pedro has to sell his soul for muffins.
But honestly, in my calculus experience, the test difficulty was not on par with the class work whatsoever. The concepts behind beginner calculus were complicated and algebraically intense, but the tests were far and above the skill level of the class.
"Lets see him solve this one..."
-sticks letter to door-
insert deal with it meme here
7
Yes
Pedro would bake her a cake.
I am in calculus 2 right now. I feel these feels
I laughed harder then I probably should have, I sort of want to be this persons friend now..
And then he gave the note to you in perfect condition! I totally believe this!
In all seriousness, practice tests are the best way to prepare for calculus examinations. They test on concepts which are usually tested on year after year and should give you a feel on what the real thing will be like. This works for most subjects actually.
Simple answer: Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Answer: Pedro is a feline, and gives zero damn about number of cupcakes.
And then?...
Hahahaha I failed maths because I couldnt work this crap out!
Zero, Pedro's not human.
Then you read on reddit if the space industry can survive two explosions in one week and wonder if we are calculusing enough as a nation.
3, the answer to that problem is 3!!
The Answer : Independence Day.
Accurate.
Oh yea I know them feels...
Only seen this joke about 16 jillion times but cheers
The answer must be in the form of laden swallows.
its pathetic because this was a reddit post that he stole from a day ago.
Can relate: answer is SqrRt -1
I don't bother much about calculation but i love cup cakes. Nice Lesson for professor!
Our physics prof was a real card. He wrote his own textbooks, and sold them for dirt cheap, instead of requiring 20 pound overpriced tomes.One time I had a reason to seek him out in his office, and while I knew it was room 101 which was right inside the front entrance, he had put up his name as "Professor Swehtam". His name was "Mathhews"...
So true!
Simple - One unicorn.
that's how I felt learning for my Combinatorics test.
It was fit with each topic. But trying to solve a random question I was not sure to topic it belonged.
But this would be a physics question rather than maths
Also economy and religion, question is all over the place.
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE
Woah, wtf. I actually saw this on Facebook a week ago.
If a train leaves the station stravling east and 93 mph and and other train leaves a station traveling 132 mph , what's is my shoe size?
The answer is 2, 2 cupcakes.
http://youtu.be/6L0xT8lMyss
Full video: http://vimeo.com/m/13497928
Mexican drug trade is $4 billion, and killed 100,000 people. So one Mexican is worth $4000. A cupcake costs about $2. Answer: 2,000 cupcakes
i genuinely laughed at this.. I'm gonna do this as senior prank to all the teachers that have taught me
Actually, this kind of questions is typical for physics, not maths.
If you can't separate these two subjects from each other, maybe it isn't the tests that suck.
Actually calculus and physics run hand in hand. Especially when talking rate of change and displacement.
I disagree. Physics uses maths as a language to develop models.
Of course you can have a physics' question in your maths course, but ultimately, this kind of question is typical in physics. And by "this kind of question" I mean one, which you must put two seemingly totally unrelated units into relation by fiddling around with formulas.
Tuco Taco knows the feel... http://imgur.com/gallery/P2IBqaq
7 cupcakes.
Who would actually take the time to write that cringy thing down, print it and put it up to be displayed?
7 cupcakes
This made me spit out some of my Espresso Choc out of laughter.
I was about to write something about my personal experiences on this, but I think Reddit is no longer a platform that would accept that. These days it's pun or die.
The answer is pizza. The answer is always pizza.
Pedro can buy x cupcakes with one human soul.
Where x is a rational number.
:)
What did the prof say?
That's physics not math. Some one has the wrong idea...
I'm an engineering major and this couldn't be more accurate
Math on meth: not even once.
math on meth: not even once
I see that is economics question. Cupcakes stock price is quite stable but soul price is different for each soul so answer is 0,01-1'000'000'000.
That's easy: 42.
Two. 2 cupcakes with tax and no change.
Did you personally see the so-called 'student' do it?
Whoever it is, send them to the English/Language department, copypasta or not.
This is gold.
Eight Juan, he can buy eight
42....duh
The answer's obviously 42. Looks like he's not studying hard enough.
Sounds like someone in your calculus professor's class is an absolute moron.
Or you put this on a wall and took a picture.
That was physics for me.
That is because the teacher is trying to make you actually think. I am a teacher myself and believe critical thinking is the most important way to help a student reach his or her full potential. It is important that the student not only learns basic methods, but also know which method should be applied to specific situations. Everyone knows how to use an umbrella, but can everyone think of 50 other ways to use it? This is how you grow brain power!
I hope Pedro isn't ginger.
Being x=10, calculate sun's mass.
That's really obnoxious, as is the dumb pun that will get upvoted because of this.
Looks fake
They are all fake.
42
23 grams worth of cupcakes
Pfft r/downtownmanhattan would laugh. Get a real acting jobb. I make clise towaeds firty thousand per twice bi quarterly. Bruh get a living. Ruskie is a man reals counrtey USA
MymathLab is just pure evil.
No lie, I would post someyhing like that on a teacher's door. I have no shame. :)
Brilliance.
So?
It's true
You don't care so much for English either, do you, stupid?
Imhotep is invisible.
That's what you call, a weeder class.
I agree, they are bullshit. That's why so many American students major in history and other shitty degrees.
The main concern many people should have is the possible cheating. There's a reason the questions are so hard; unless you're"in the club, they don't want you to pass.
Hahaha that's great
Easy, the answer is: FALSE
Random =\= funny
This applies to everything I do at Uni!
I think I had that professor.
So random xD
Obviously not majoring in English.
ITT: /r/funny denizens reminding the world that nothing amuses them.
Someone get a bandage, tumblr is bleeding.
Answer is 5
1+3 = brown, therefore HL3 confirmed. I did the maths. It workeds.
I would be mad. I've seen that reposted on Facebook 10 times already the past week. I hate hearing Facebook jokes in real life.
The answer is "green"...
This checks out.
/r/thathappened
That has been my experience with calculus my whole life. I think I understand the material, I do fine on assignments and studying, but when I get to the tests, I always fall apart, it's like I'd never seen a calculus problem before. I had to take Calc I 3 times to pass it with a 'C', and Calc II twice to get a 'C'.
(Show your work)
Calculost.....
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None, unless the cupcakery is owned by the devil. In which case, all of them, but no matter how many you eat, you're never satisfied, and you now have diabetes.
Truth!!!
Clearly the answer is 2/5*Pi.
Math major here. Can confirm.
Perfect.
lol so random xd. Seriously though this shit is cringe worthy.
Math want really that hard, the test questions are mostly very similar to homeworks given. Just study your assignments and you'll be fine. I was a double math and computer science major.
The answer is 37
/r/titlegore
curse you common core!
I spit coffee on my computer. Then had to explain to my coworkers why I was frantically cleaning it off. Thanks OP
well a human life is worth 7.4m and you can probably get a dollar cupcake so 7.4 million cupcakes, unless you have that in a black soul gem which is 750 gold coins price of gold is $37.50 per gram and we will just say that the gold coins way the same as a small old coin I saw on ebay which is 5.5 grams so with cupcakes being at 1 dollar you could get 154,687.50 cupcakes... add that to the 7.4 million and you have obesity and most likely death
yep...can confirm. This is also the case with physics exams
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depends on the type of cupcake!
and his name is always fucking pedro too
Fortunately by the time I reached college I realized the 'triangle in the wind' question was actually asked in the review questions at the end of each chapter, and trying to study for a math test without doing a lot of math problems was dumb.
/r/thathappened
1.75 per cupcake ( via http://www.cupcakeisland.com/pricing/ ) 2 CP = loaf of bread ( via http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Food,_Drink,_and_Lodging ) walmart loaf of bread = $1 ( via my local walmart) human soul: worth 10 XP ( via http://webpublishing.lsrhs.net/S2013-7/rust/DD/BVD.pdf PG 33) 10 xp = 50 GP (via http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/creatingMagicItems.htm "Spell has XP cost") 50 gp = 500 silver = 5000 copper. 5000 copper = $2500 2500/1.75 = 1428 (.571...)
answer: 1428 cupcakes per human soul.
took me about 5 minutes, most of that was gathering the sources, it's nice being in the 98th percentile for math.
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Then someone asks, "when will I use this in life?"
But it's true tho :P
but it's true tho :p
Not funny, reported.
42 the answer is 42.
Bout 7.
3 answer is always 3
46 of course.
About tree fiddy
Really? No one? OK... /r/thathappened
In high school I was the worst student when it came to math. I couldn't hack algebra too and barely scrapped through in Geometry by the grace of playing in the tennis team as my teacher was the coach. I found in college that I was surprisingly good at both Statistics and Calculus. In my opinion, it feels like certain people are just equipped to handle certain types of math classes better then others.
Just wait til you take partial differential equations taught by a sadist who uses the book he teaches math graduate students with.....
I once took a math class like this. The tests/exams looked like an English class exam, there were way too many words in the question. And each problem/question started with "Suppose". It was like multiple short essay questions or some shit. Finally, you HAD to explain your answer in a few sentences.
No but the name needs to be really foreign, like deyrto or something or something weird. Deyrto has 4 friends, if he sacrifices three of them to satan, how many will he have left? I don't know where I was going with this i'll stop now.
This is great. I wonder if the teacher found it funny...?
He thought it was hilarious!
Oh, no, you see, when I took math tests, the homework was super, super hard, and the tests were usually easy. But they would be so easy that I couldn't remember how to do the problems.
The answer is obviously purple.
The obvious answer they are looking for is, marsupial.
Not going to lie, I almost pulled my dick off laughing when I saw this.
lol
I know like why the hell does he need 14.8 cupcakes
None, a cupcake is equivalent to 1/3 of a Lifegem and a lifegem is 300 souls, so a cupcake is 100 souls. Now you could get 1% of a cupcake, but that would be just a tease.
The answer is obviously 8 cupcakes
but why is it always fucking Pedro?
The answer is one raw potato http://imgur.com/ruGRWeY
Only gingers use souls as currency, so the question is irrelevant.
Pedro must be Saùl's red-headed brother. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saúl_Álvarez
The answer is 42
Every single time there's a test. It's like, oh, well you never even mentioned that before, and that shit right there isn't even in the chapter, also, it's a physics question. Fuck math.
You mean you printed this out and took a picture of it as it lays on a random desk at your school near the printer you used.
...and everyone who upvoted this and/or believes you is a gullible idiot.
Let me guess what happens next, that you're a gay athiest use to love obama until he turned out to be Bush the 3rd then you hate him, who's also a transexual who's been "friendzoned" by some whore all because you're dyslexic too, right?
Oh oh and you rescued a cat that was "thrown out of a moving car on the highway" who' had a name tag and his/her name is "UPVOTE REDDIT" and you're now taking care of this atheist, transexual, democrat voting cat too?
Anger issues.
...gay athiest use to love obama...
PleaseStayInSchool should have stayed in school.
Yellow because Neptune prefers chocolate over sherbert.
So, here's the earth...
SO RANDUM, AMIRITE GUISE!?!?!?
Someone should tell whoever wrote that to stick with calculus because they are never going to make it as a comedian.
The answer is purple, because ice cream has no bones.
The student isn't wrong. I took calculus two and a half times (dropped the third semester) and usually at least half of the test consisted of problems that we had not addressed at all in class. I thought I was just not paying attention/too lazy to learn properly, but the fact that I managed to get decently good grades in every other course besides calculus so far seems to prove otherwise.
Clearly, the answer is 42!
Having never failed anything in my life and just bombing a Calculus final- I concur!!!
What an idiot. The answer is 7, because Juan drives a hard bargain.
You call that a hard bargain...I could get a dozen easily even for a shitty soul
hard bargain
Well, I've never heard of that kind of car before, but at least it can go 20 km/h.
He used to drive an El Camino. It could not do 20 km/h.
fake
wtf is this unfunny cancerous tumblr bullshit
trick question. there is actually no such thing as a soul.
The answer is obviously rutabaga. Don't you know anything?
True Story
The answer is switch major to poetry.
i used to get really shitty at people that would take up 10 minutes of a class complaining about an out-of-the-box question that they couldn't understand.
My musical form and analysis teacher did this to an irritating degree.
He literally would give us the most textbook examples of everything during class, for weeks. Then on the test, he'd give you the most exception-to-the-rule filled pieces to analyze. This was literally a class where your entire grade was 5 tests. Five of these ridiculous tests that he did not explain or prepare you for in anyway. I honestly can't believe I passed.
/r/shitposts
So the test was about dancing? Given that the question was about throwing shapes.
I always loved profs like this, because it weeded out the weaklings!
But seriously, when I was in college, my math profs would always teach things like "A + B = C" type of logic while giving you A and B to figure out C. Then when the test came, they would give you C and A and you had to figure out B. People just couldn't seem to figure out the concept, but I loved it because it made you actually think.
Throwing a triangle out of a car is littering and you'd be fined $1000. Taking that into account Pedro can only buy the human souls of gingers, because logic. Therefore, one cupcake can buy 42 ginger souls or 0 non-ginger souls due to economies of scale. I just scienced your nonsense, bitch!
How can you buy a ginger's soul? You have more studying to do
Oh my god... I wish I could upvote more than once. I actually laughed my ass off when I saw this
Pedro really needs to get out of that neighbourhood.
The answer is √3 + 2i
42
Honestly I've never understood the point of math test questions. They obviously are like that in real real world. If I were a mathematician for like nasa or some shit I won't have to solve 35 math questions in 40 minutes. It'll be more like I need to figure out this one problem and it'll take me about a month. But no apparently in school terms if you can't do it your an idiot and you don't deserve to get into a good college for study a course like philosophy because you failed your math class. School is honestly designed and run by retards.
My students hate it, but this is why I make the quizzes very difficult. Each quiz is worth 1% of their grade, and is super tough. Averages are around 50-70 each time. But it prepares them. They average 70-80 on the exams as a result.
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I don't give homework in my class (not my decision. I am a TA. I requested we offer homework instead of quizzes so I can give more detailed feedback but was told no.) I can only set the problems for the quizzes and have been instructed to make then difficult. It's useful too though, and I agree with the decision. The higher difficulty problems should be set for the lowest possible damage to their grades. An exam average of 80 is quite high for a college level statistics course.
Im glad that this isnt just some crazy theory Ive had in my head. Over my years taking math courses in college (started in developmental math, and I am not in Calc I) I've noticed that my proffs almost always give me these crazy math problems on homework/quizes that take forever to solve and cause me a lot of stress. Then when test day comes around they always seem to pick questions from the pool of the easiest questions and I end up doing very well.
My theory has always been that proff's use homework/quiz's as a way to apply new information to older material that we have learned, and that tests are used to make sure we understand the basic concepts of the chapter.
That's exactly what we're doing. It's just a shame so many people think we're evil for doing so!
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My solution was to start offering mock exams. They are allowed to take the exam at home and I'll provide detailed feedback about where they went wrong as well as what topic areas I feel they need to study more closely. It's the best I can do until I have a class of my own.
who upvoted this shit
This is an old joke. Get over it! Math is beautiful, and if you're bad at it, you should feel ashamed and not proud!
While I can agree that math is beautiful, I cannot math. But mocking people who can't math is really just bad manners. It is possible to math and still have manners, my sister manages to do it. She maths really well. And she would never mock someone who can't math.
I'm not mocking you, I'm stating that the common sentiment about math is that it's "cool" to suck at it and make jokes. That's just the way people have to get over their failures and insecurities.
11.. the answer is 11
jajaja
That sounds about right..
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The square of a human soul divided by a gingers
The answer is 0. The previous question implies that Pedro only collect the souls of gingers, and if you had been in class then you would know that while gingers do have souls, they have no value on the soul-to-cupcake exchange. The rest is just filler info to confuse you, but to be fair the teacher did mention that you need to be able to sort out which variables are essential for the question being asked.
Gingers DO have souls? I thought that was a rumor spread by those nasty gingers
How did Pedro get his hands on a human soul?
That depends on whether or not Pedro is a sucker.
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Depends on the condition of your soul.
You have to vote for Pedro before he will buy any souls.
In other words, they don't know how to apply it to real world problems. i.e. they don't get it.
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Oh, I'll give you a cupcake alright... How about two?
If you can't use it in real life, you don't understand it.
Maths in a nutshell right there.
The answer is 2
God, that is amazing.
Subby, I commend you for making me blow coffee out my nose. Funniest thing I've read on Reddit in months. I'm now repeating it ad nauseam to everyone I know...
If Timothy has 4 apples and he give Johnny 3 apples while they are standing on the bow of a ship traveling 10 knots NW while the wind is blowing 60mph SE calculate the mass and density of the sun.
At my school it's the opposite.
The lessons are really hard since the teachers like to go beyond the syllabus, we all stress out about what's going to be in the exams, and then when it comes to doing past papers we realise they're relatively easy (although still objectively hard).
None. 'Cause chickens don't have armpits.
Well, the answer is clearly 3.14159265359
Nope, no, sorry my mistake that's pi not a cupcake.
I would just like to point out that I read this on the shitter during recess from a calculus lecture
Pedro would first need to find a cupcake vendor that accepts human souls as a valid currency. He would then have to ensure that the aforementioned vendor had not very recently been struck and killed by a flying triangle that was recklessly thrown from a moving vehicle.
answer: my phallus preexists all known matter. age of one dillion and fourteen-teen phases of the moon.
I mean, I thought it's pretty common knowledge that one human soul = 4.5 cupcakes (unless they're red velvet...)
How much are souls going for these days? (asking for a friend) (with horns)
Helvetica
el oh el so randum xD
Exactly
Did someone got the answer to this?
This guy really needs to get on the payroll of that educational institution. He makes great tests.
Zero cupcakes. Soul-based transactions have no merit in the world of hard currency.
student is op?
The Professor should include that question in the next test.
2 jupiters, honestly it's like you didn't study the chapter.
It's so true though. I understood the last paragraph more than I understand math in general. ;-;
it depends if its a 30-60-90 triangle? then yes Pedro can only purchase juan cupcake.
But what if the cupcake is an asymptote? Will Pedro die of malnutrition despite offering the dark lord of cupcake hell all of the worlds souls?
Lol
Shit I only learnt the formula for Stacys mum ...
Do i see insanity wolf ?
so randum xDDDDDDDDDDd
Math I get. Science too. This is what the LSAT is to me.
Sounds like someone needs to learn some frustration tolerance.
Pffft. That's physics.
Maybe I am just a not fun guy, but I do not find this funny even a little bit. Like this hurt me to read. Im sorry for commenting that but I just could not stop my hands.
Well, neither could the note writer.
I cannot believe what college has devolved into.
We funnel people who cannot find work on their own merits into this track. Is it any wonder they are not exactly top shelf as students, either?
Is the answer..... Pi ?
drops head, leaves sub
yes
Jim walks into a building, how tall is the building?
Are you fucking eight years old?
Hah, I had the same math problem on my last test.
So your 'calculus professor' teaches easy physics?
But who was Pedro?
If Pedro is a ginger he gets takes souls for free..
13 cupcakes. He can buy 13 cupcakes.
If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?
-Tom Robbins
This is 0% funny
I guess he should have taught some logic and common sense to his students as well.
Reddit has fully evolved into Tumblr. "LOL I'M SO R4NDUM, SCHOOL RELATES TO PEOPLE, AND THIS IS R4NDUM I SHOULD BE A COMEDIAN PROBABLY"
This is true for certain subreddits (mainly the default ones), but not so much for smaller ones.
Why do people begin statements with 'so'?
Shame he can't spell maths.
Well, using Hitlarian calculations, one could, in theory, determine the number of cupcakes Hitler consumed, and from there, determine how many Pico-hitlers one cupcake is equal to. Break that price down, and apply it to a cupcake. Pedro=hitler
I like math tests because they're never like that. That's more like philosophy, and the question is: can you ramble about concepts vaguely related to this question for three paragraphs? If so you earn an A.
Cupcake or Death?
this is dumb... obviously you're not asian.. Otherwise calculus would be no problem for you
Several estimates on human life in the US are around $6-8 million. If 1 life = 1 soul, taking the upper estimate for a cupcake priced at $1.50 each, Pedro can buy 5,333,333.333 cupcakes. The first clause of the sentence is filler and irrelevant to the solution, making this problem almost TOO easy. I wish I had a math test like that.
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They're there to make you think and not blindly solve a prewritten equation. You can memorize the steps to solve a particular problem setup, but the application questions are what show if you truly understand the material. In the world, you're not going to have the math you need to solve neatly laid out in front of you. You will have to be able to figure out what tools you need to solve it and how to set it up. And before you say, well I'm not going to use this math in life ever, if you're taking Calculus then you're likely going to need to use that in life.
I don't know about your school, but my calculus classes have been set up to coincide with content in engineering classes. Thus, things like these "contrived applications" for integrals/derivatives/related rates/min/maxing have been quite helpful in having a broader understanding of the content.
The real shitty part is when, for example, the homework is mostly easy stuff like finding integrals for normal functions, then the test beats your ass by making you find integrals for equations containing trig & log functions.
he probably can't buy any with a human soul, seeing as how some dried up herbs are a couple hundred.
If i learned anything from Dark Souls it would be that 10 human souls get you one arrow. Now we can Math :D
The answer is obvious, Purple.
42, it always is right?
fake
The answer is clearly 5, since KN^V = Zl*(o/2)
Seriously, learn to math.
Well that's easy. 42.
Ever find it funny that calculus word problems are actually physics problems... It's like calculus was invented to do physics with, or something
Why is this funny?
42
r/"funny". Why am I still subscribed to this?
You kidding this is great
I hate these "jokes." People think they are so funny by complaining about math in a s0 R4nDoM1! way. Math is not that hard, and if you have problems with it then saying it is impossible will get you nowhere.
I felt the same exact way when I first learnt calculus back in 1997.
Wow, they're bad at writing as well as mathematics. Life will be difficult.
no one should get this upset over a calculus test. Too easy
HEY GUYS, IM SO COOL AND TRENDY! LOOK AT MY LETTER, ITS SO RANDOM, HAHAHA, SO FUNNY!
so le randumb xDDDD
"Don't you love it when people in school are like, 'I'm a bad test taker.' You mean you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know?"
3 or more human souls is when the discount really kicks in.
10.
I'VE HAD THIS QUESTION BEFORE!
what was your answer?
Half life 3 cupcakes?
Something on /r/funny that made me laugh. Congrats!
Ummm...Sorry to be a D bag.
But if air resistance acts in a different direction than any other force, you just subtract it the vectors...
Pretty easy stuff...
This is very dumb.
Me too Pedro. Me too.
Triangle is a funny word.
I like it.
Yay, my username is sometimes relevant.
Funny? No. Moronic? Yes. I would expel that fucker from school.
What's the problem? I mean it's so easy! ಠ_ಠ
Hate those kinda of test too!
sounds like the joke of "Bob has 3 apples he gives jack 2...now calculate the radius of the sun."
If he gives jack 2 apples, and the average apple has a circumference of 8.8", we know that the radius of said apple is approximately 1.4". Given that radius we can then calculate that the radius of the sun is about 695,000KM.
Seriously, pretty simple stuff. No calculus needed even.
Ah, yes. Of course.
That always makes me laugh like a goddamn fool
Like a fool...or a fowl?
I'll show myself out.
You really fowled out with that joke.
He seems quite talon-ted to me.
That was a hoot.
You're a hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7etPTXxl0YU
That is one smart dog!
How did you start with inches and end in km?
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Noice.
I should probably mention this wasn't entirely my own: http://youtu.be/Y2bpsyfJJt4
Metric is the units of the rebels. Put him in the detention center to await execution.
All men exaggerate a little.
You don't measure yours in km?
Conversions are incredibly straight forward
Magic!
Isn't it common knowledge that 1 km equals roughly 39370 5/64 inches? If you know that, it's just simple math
Same way NASA did it.
You know the average circumference of an apple off the top of your head? And I thought my knowledge of over 100 digits of pi was cool.
Well, there's 2 digits in the circumference of an apple, and you know 100 digits of pi, so you can make ~50 apple pis!
Or one, giant, apple pi, with an overwhelming filling to crust ratio.
Define "cool".
Not warm.
Is there as subreddit for this stuff?
Closest I could find was /r/estimation/
Any VCE students here remember the horror of sitting exams and enduring math questions starring Victoria Jones and Tasmanian Jones?
Jeez, sharing apples doesn't make Bob, Jack or the OP's professor rocket scientists.
Funny enough, I know someone who set his students a question like this. He was a TA and he was teaching applied math/theoretical physics.
The human eye ball is roughly ~24 millimeters in diameter. Calculate the temperature of the surface of the sun.
He told me the solution was that the eye ball's diameter is evolved to adsorb/use the strongest wavelength of light from the sun (I think that's one of the assumptions). So you can apparently calculate which frequency from the size of the eye ball. Then once you work out the maximum frequency, you can correlate that to the temperature of the surface of the sun. As certain wavelengths = certain temperatures.
I don't recall the full details, but it was something along those lines.