I am going to drop out of school. Algebra2 is so awful right now the homework makes no sense and it is all more complicated than it first looked.
@Calchong don’t give up! It gets better. What concepts are you having trouble with?
We (Californians) can’t start drivers ed until 15 and a half right?
That means I won’t do drivers ed until May -.-
@topaz116 Using the Fundamental Theorm of Algebra you take p/q (first term over constant) and then find all the possible rational roots. use synthetic division and factor till you get all the rational and imaginary roots. I know how to do it but for some reason in the homework it seriously is NOT working. When i do the synthetic division i end up with remainders which isn’t supposed to happen if it is a root.
in florida you do not need drivers ed or whatever class I dont have that class anyways. My dad is teaching me how to drive and its actually really easy (even though i tend not to pay attention sometimes lol). in florida its 15 to get a learners permmit and 16 for license. but i waited so it wont be until july that i get my license
@Calchong that happens to me from time to time. How are you factoring? What do you plug into the synthetic division thing for the first time? Also, if you find one of the roots, do you start with step one of synthetic division with a different number or do you continue to guess and check using the result of the first synthetic division?
@Calchong Make sure to add zeros for missing terms (like if you have x^3 +5x+3, make sure to have 1, 0, 5, and 3), I’m sorry if I give you advice on things you already are doing!
^^^ that too
Also how many of you guys have finals sometime in January, and how many of you are like me, having finals back in December?
I’m a class of 2017er and I am kind of excited to get out of high school, yet I am worried. Though I feel like some classes I will never use in my lifetime
@Faultystart @Cornbread1999 I do exactly what the book examples do. I’m going to see my math teacher tomorrow before my head explodes
@shyquietgirl456 arrrghhhh still 2 and a half years away. What classes are you taking?
@Cornbread1999 I had midyear exams way back in December. I had all Winter Break to (mostly) relax. 
Biology 1
Algebra/functions/Analysis
English 10
History 2
Art 1
Japanese 1
Drivers ed/Gym
Mostly the math part cause next year I am going to have to take Trigonometry. Also Art 1 at my school is terrible the teacher literally draws like a 5 year old, and drones on and on. I feel like I would just benefit more from YouTube. I hate gym, and I am glad it’s my last year of gym so I can choose other classes. Biology 1 teacher just gives us work and don’t teach at all. I’m surprised I even have a B in her class. Other than that I like the rest of them.
@Cornbread1999
@shyquietgirl456 and what major/career path are you planning on embarking on?
@Cornbread1999 Finals this week, actually. I’m procrastinating at the moment. But I did just finish doing six old tests from a previous chapter for precalc (every period gets a different test + a makeup, so there were seven tests total)… I keep on forgetting about some formulas that were given to us on the actual test (and I hope that they’ll be given to us on the final, since there are eight of them and we already have like twenty other formulas to memorize), and when I remember them, my life becomes 1000 times easier.
Also, I’ll be eligible to get my permit in May as well! November birthdays ftw.
@topaz1116 I’m assuming, from your username, that your birthday is November 16, 1999?
@Cornbread1999 very observant of you.
On another note, my friend’s brother got into Stanford med school. He was valedictorian at a very, very highly ranked public high school (with an IB magnet program) in Florida and got into Vanderbilt for undergrad with a merit scholarship. Which means my friend might visit the Bay Area again after like, two years. We’ve already got everything we’re going to go planned out (go to the amusement park, go out for lunch, and go to the movies with our old friend group).
@topaz1116 lol, that would make me exactly one week older than you. November 9, 1999
and wow, that sounds exciting.