useless Math taught in schools

lol they are needed as the basic for higher studies too, here too you find many who just ignore mathematics, when i go to conduct practical examinations, i ask the students simple addition of numbers with decimal points; most can't too with out calculator if i ask one kilometer is how many millimeters many can't answer too. so sad, i was there in your country as visiting professor, i know the situation well.

Well, they are not useless for higher education and highly scientific and number crunching kid of work. Especially in Engineering, such complicated mathematics are quite useful and the the very fundamental of the machines and technology people are using today. You just say that maybe because you don't actually in need to apply it during your daily life. Such kind of mathematics will never live as long as now to be still taught in schools if they are completely useless. Also, another thing why such hard things are taught in school is to condition students for problem solving skills. Making your brain work hard gives people the right mind exercise and attitude against hard problems. That is an indirect effect of teaching such hard subjects. Just my two cents in.

I used to hate trigonometry at school and algebra, and I could never figure out how you could use either in every day life! You can hardly go into a store and ask for b+a and hope to get c. Pythagoras Therum I never got to grips with and they might as well be talking a foreign language. Budgeting would be ideal in the Math curriculum helping people to stretch out their money, economize and frugal living instead of those infuriating equations!

When I was a student, maths is one of the most difficult subjects for me. At that time I also thought it was an useless lesson. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't learn it well. Now I think that learning maths probably just wants you to practise your ways to think. It trains your brain.

you have a good point. in my opinion, the hard math equations and formulas that are taught in schools are irrelevant in real life and you can never use them when you get out of the real world. when i was in high school, i never understood what those complicated equations and formulas are for and now that i have graduated in college and studying a post graduate degree, i still don't understand these things and i think when i become a professor someday, i will never understand them too. i'd rather teach philosophy, linguistics and literature than math.

i thought that math lesson in the school is very usefull someday for anyone, for example that you can counting with exellent skill now like 1..2..3..and so on. see, just simple things. But we can not just based on lesson in the school only because it's wide world, so we have to modified it and creative to think with basic thing that we know. School will teaching all basic lesson, because so many thing that we should to learn from we still as a kid right.

We can say about it because most of the time students find job far from the field they took up during college. The way of teaching mathematics in our country can be used no like on the way teaches in the school but it helps our students to think deeper and go beyond. So when they encounter easy mathematical problems they will only laugh on it. It's just like solving our own personal problem. We should experience hard problems so we can solve the easy one.

"The problem of poverty will be solved little by little." While I believe that courses on personal finances (as well as courses in math, art, music, literature, etc.) should be available for students, I find it funny that someone would think that a high school course in finances is going to cure a societal ill that has numerous root causes--causes that are not within the control of those who are trapped in poverty.

I never used algebra in my life but I did use ratio and proportion to figure medicine dosages when I worked as a nurse. I only learned algebra to take tests. I don't remember any if it. I think if you are going to be a chemist, a physicist or some kind if technician where they need calculus or statistics or some ither kind of math, it is important to get the basics. In some ways learning is good for learning's sake, whether you use it or not. There is soooo much I don't know that I wish I did have skills in just about everything. I feel like u cheated myself because I don't know a lot about math.

Hi cutie I am very poor in maths. I agree the methods which they teach in schools are not at all effective. I think whole of the education pattern should be changed.

I have the same problem. I don't think most of the stuff taught in Maths classes are unusable, but kids won't necessarily find the connections with an equation to their real life problems. Instead of plain and boring tasks or these idiotic "Katie's father had three chicken" type of stuff, they should be taught, for example: -to decide whether a bargain is actually worth it or not (like if you buy chips regularly, is an x gram pocket of chips for A dollars more worth it than an Y gram pocket for B dollars) -how to calculate how much money they would have if they took their money into the bank -it could help them manage their time better (like how much time they should spend studying day by day) -for DIY projects, how much I should largen a picture to put it in a photo frame... or anything that is relatable to the kids. But especially the money stuff. It's not that they have to learn from their own mistakes, because no one taught them being money smart in a really logical way.

I think Mathematics is one of the best subjects being taught in high school and even elementary when you mentioned kids. In this way, they will know what line of profession shall they take in college. How can a student say I will become an engineer when he did not try solving complicated math solutions? Might as well ask some education students why they enrolled that course, they would answer, " I hate math". Well at least, they analyzed that they don't want it during the process of teaching math.

i think math is the best subject, love it ! Learning math is a basic for our life too. that is the basic to learn money smart too.

I haven't learned maths for several years even if I'm still at school! But for me I kind of long for learning it again, as I did in junior and senior high. I think it's good for the development of one's inteligence. I hope you could find some interest in it and get good grades. Good luck:)

Yes your right for some students who are not taking engineers or accountancy mathematics learning formulas are useless. Maybe for highschool students it is an introduction for to give them a little hint what was the course they should be taken in college and if they are qualified to take courses who specialize numbers. Instead being a smart how to handle money is a good idea.

Have to disappoint you there, those complicated mathematical formulas are not useless and will be used in real life. Take mathematics away and you get rid of a lot of other sciences too. No computers, no cars, no banks, no modern civilisation as we now it. I think it would be a a bit sad if the schools only emphasized things that'll make you earn money, but even if they did, you wouldn'g get rid of the math. Actually, it would probably be more than now.

All the Math lessons taught in high school are introduction for higher math curriculum. There are courses that will be needing such and so the basics are taught in high school.

Hi, you are right. basic maths should be taught in schools which is necessary for making money and calculations for daily life. Maths should be optional subject after 10th standard. Those who like math sand who want to go for engineering or for maths related course can select this subject.

Not here in mexico. the math taught here is nothing like what i learned back in the usa. And here they teach the hard stuff much earlier. I hate math..