What if math was taught with funny applications?

Pre-College Topics High School Cafe
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<p>I honestly think students would learn algebra better if they made word problems more interesting and appealing to the adolescent mind. I know that it’s obviously not school appropriate, but think about how much more fun homework could be if instead of word problems talking about random boring stuff, it talked about drug revenue, stripper salaries, made dirty sexual references, etc. It would mostly be boys, but think about how much better teenagers with warped minds would be able to focus and pick up on math. I know this might come off as a spam thread, but think about it, think about how people might actually learn better if you made math applications more humorous.</p>

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<p>Do us a favor and start the change, talk to your teacher! Hopefully, it’ll inspire other teachers. :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>U wot m8? </p>

<p>Or they could teach physics and comp sci alongside.</p>

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<p>I don’t like application problems that pretend to be realistic, because they aren’t and they’re usually boring to me anyway because I usually don’t have enough background in the subject of the application to really get anything out of it. I prefer either silly/absurd applications or “theoretical” ones that deal with abstract mathematical objects and not real-world scenarios. </p>

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<p>The problem with those examples is that, at the end of the day, that money is probably gonna get stolen, so you wouldn’t need to find the answer anyway.</p>

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<p>The questions in my stats class are always about “risque” subjects like that and it doesn’t really help :P</p>

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<p>We can use a statistics to find the probability of that yaki.</p>

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<p>It’s probably not a good idea… I mean look at all the fuss over this:
<a href=“http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/15/we-teach-our-children-not-to-sleep-around-dad-outraged-over-biology-homework-that-stepped-way-way-over-the-line/”>http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/15/we-teach-our-children-not-to-sleep-around-dad-outraged-over-biology-homework-that-stepped-way-way-over-the-line/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I didn’t say that people would not get butt hurt about it, I just said I think adolescence would be engaged into the activity easier and be able to understand how math works because they will apply it almost naturally. Of course it would be stopped because its not PC, but that’s a different issue altogether.</p>