woodcook:

I love Math coz it is the only subject that you could tell without a second guess whether you got it right or wrong. It appears to be the only subject you can teach yourself without much stress.

But at my age now, I tend not to like it anymore because after several years of graduation I am yet to apply all the crazy stuffs I did in Metric Space Topology, ODE, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis etc. Even the most basic like quadratic and simultaneous equation I am yet to apply them in real life. I guess it is time education is geared towards stuffs that are applicable in everyday life rather than chasing stuffs that only exist in the realm of mathematics and abstract world.

Dyt:

in as much as i hated it
i made sure i get an A cos i dont wanna write again

pato405:

it's so easy you don't even need a teacher. i'm not boasting but believe me when i say i learnt it without a teacher. i attended a public school with very lazy teachers. our maths teacher hardly visits the classroom. he taught less than 15 times between ss1-ss3. I'm not exaggerating.  all you need as a secondary school student is your New General maths by kalejaiye or get Harwood Clarke. those texts come with so many examples and give you practical exercises with answers behind. so you find teaching yourself very easy. that was my strategy and i enjoyed it. I made an 'A'. I eventually didn't go into Engineering tho. I went into Health. It's been over 20yrs! but till date I can still solve those funny equations. quadratic graphs, statistics, Logs were my best. then geometry, inequalities, e.t.c. OH gosh! nostalgia.

Unfortunately, students these days want to ping away their time with BB. if only they can devote half that time to stufying it. they'll grasp it faast. it damn easy. very easy. just devotion. the only problem with maths is that it's a jealous subject. it wants you to devote time to it daily. themore attention you give it, the more it becomes part of you and you gain mastery of the subject. if you leave it for a week and come back, it seems like you've left it for a year.   . somtimes volatile. so you need constant exercises keeps it going. but once you've gained mastery of it, it stays on.

desthan:

Are you omitting Larcombe Upper Standard. My favorite were Pythagoras theorem, Algorithms, Bearings, Algebra etc. . . . name it all of them still on my finger tips till date. You can't be a computer programmer without Algorithms. Infact Maths is the easiest subject in this worlds. Everything on the face of this earth revolves round maths, how hard is that?? Maths, Add Maths, Physics, Chemistry, all my groupies . . . lol

Find X, find Y, simplify, almighty formular. Hw many engineers sef dey use all these things for there work, abi na doctor go dey find X on top patient abi na banker go dey simplify for bank, I beg math na waste of time jere.

jamace:

My believe is that Maths at primary and secondary school levels are applicable/usable in everyday lives, but advance maths like Topology, Abstract Algebra, ODE, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis etc, are jargons meant for academic entertainment.

moHot:

@TOPIC
i hate maths because i hate uncle Vitalis that taught me maths and i hate him because he hated the fact that i look more beautiful than his daughter

i have not finished hating maths they now brought another one called FURTHER MATHS.they want me to die of hating??

M---Mental
A---Attack
T---To
H---Handsome (and Beautiful)
S---Students

jamace:

My believe is that Maths at primary and secondary school levels are applicable/usable in everyday lives, but advance maths like Topology, Abstract Algebra, ODE, Complex Analysis, Real Analysis etc, are jargons meant for academic entertainment.  

ekt_bear:

I don't think that this is accurate. ODEs come up in physical modeling. PDEs in stochastic calculus (used in finance), in physics, engineering.

Abstract algebra. . .  well, the Chinese Remainder Theorem, Fermat's little theorem comes up in the RSA algorithm (used pretty much any time you go to a https:// website), buy something online with your credit card, etc.

Real analysis is pretty much generalized and more rigorous calculus, so of course is used all the time to justify that things work.

Complex analysis. . . well, the Fourier Transform is the foundation of most of digital signal processing techniques. So obviously is very important. .  .(anytime you listen to something on youtube, view a JPEG image online, etc.)

Topology, I am less familiar with its real-world use, but I am sure that it is also has some practical applications.