I think that for whatever reason, math gets a bad rep. It's routinely passed off by college students as simply "busy work: required for a degree, but I think that any sort of algebra, calculus, or even simple arithmetic at its base form can be helpful to anyone.
Math represents logic at it's purest form. In most situations, you cannot argue math. It is a constant, and an absolute. A+B = C.
Math is not simply "used" by those who learn it in school when they want to perform long division. It's ingrained in the minds of people who practice, and understand it, and it's used in every imaginable instance.
I'm only a college student at the time, and don't have much on-the-job experience, so I'll stay out of the programming talk. I think that math is important for everyone who ever wants to use or understand any sort of absolute logic, or even objective logic, for that matter.
In that respect, I think that math is important to lawyers, programmers, ditch-diggers, aerospace engineers, and the aforementioned people flipping burgers ad McDonalds.
That's a bit of a defeatist attitutde. Any skill can be learned, especially with good intelligence.. Karate would give him a chance to practice his coordination, and develop it. We don't have to stick with the lot we're dealt, we can branch out. I was much like the aforementioned kid, and took karate early on.. It gave me confidence early on, but I didn't stick with it... I prefered soccer and wrestling... Any activity will help you meet new people, but if you want the kid to branch out, you've got to get him to meet people who aren't like him already, so chess club and computer organizations are out.
He probably won't like the idea of doing something outside of his comfort zone, but he needs to be challenged. It sounds like his parents might not have challenged him enough as a child, or perhaps they tended to believe that the only learning experiences for a child are in books.
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I agree.... He'll get nailed with charges for this "bomb threat" prank, and right after that, he slaps a lawsuit on Rockstar games.
Maybe when McDonalds is done offering their no-bun hamburgers, they can start putting decks of cards in their adult happy meals.
I think that for whatever reason, math gets a bad rep. It's routinely passed off by college students as simply "busy work: required for a degree, but I think that any sort of algebra, calculus, or even simple arithmetic at its base form can be helpful to anyone.
Math represents logic at it's purest form. In most situations, you cannot argue math. It is a constant, and an absolute. A+B = C.
Math is not simply "used" by those who learn it in school when they want to perform long division. It's ingrained in the minds of people who practice, and understand it, and it's used in every imaginable instance.
I'm only a college student at the time, and don't have much on-the-job experience, so I'll stay out of the programming talk. I think that math is important for everyone who ever wants to use or understand any sort of absolute logic, or even objective logic, for that matter.
In that respect, I think that math is important to lawyers, programmers, ditch-diggers, aerospace engineers, and the aforementioned people flipping burgers ad McDonalds.
[quote] Will there be enough to buy some hotpockets and a can of diet coke? [/quote] No, but you can buy a magic shield or blue ring.
That's a bit of a defeatist attitutde. Any skill can be learned, especially with good intelligence.. Karate would give him a chance to practice his coordination, and develop it. We don't have to stick with the lot we're dealt, we can branch out. I was much like the aforementioned kid, and took karate early on.. It gave me confidence early on, but I didn't stick with it... I prefered soccer and wrestling... Any activity will help you meet new people, but if you want the kid to branch out, you've got to get him to meet people who aren't like him already, so chess club and computer organizations are out. He probably won't like the idea of doing something outside of his comfort zone, but he needs to be challenged. It sounds like his parents might not have challenged him enough as a child, or perhaps they tended to believe that the only learning experiences for a child are in books.
Since when did lesbians need help siphoning gas?