Math: Geometry or Algebra?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Poll question: Math: Geometry or Algebra?

Seems like everyone I know either likes algebra/analytic trig/calculus or likes geometry, but not both. I DESPISE geometry--it's been my worst class thus far in high school. Since that trauma freshman year, however, I've liked math well enough, considering I'm more of a humanities person. Just give me algebra or trig or ANYTHING over geometry, because geometry SUCKS ass. x( :P

[Aristus]

1. I loved Geometry. It beat the hell out of Algebra in the interesting factor.

I'd do proofs forever rather than do one trig problem.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Eeeeeeeeeew.

The unit circle ANY day over geometric proofs. Those are just vile.

:D

[SKKY]

3. It doesn't matter, I suck at both...

...but I suck less at Geometry.

[Aristus]

5. Wasn't there a time when sailors had to be proficient at Trigonometry and Geometry?

Just asking... :popcorn:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Oho, you're really askin' fer trouble, ain't yer?

:P

[SKKY]

8. Only if you're a Nuke. I'm not, I'm a cryppie.

[TZ]

4. I liked geometry better

Did much better in it too. However, in my job, algebra is much more relevant...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Another geometry person!

Are there NO other algebra-ians here?

:P :P

:hi:

[MsKandice01]

9. Theories...postulates...

Who the hell needs them??

Give me a quadratic equation, a matrix or a trigonometric function any day. I actually liked Calculus best though.

[pokerfan]

10. I voted for both

HS Geometry was kind of boring, The one class I never had to study for. (Unlike English, obviously.) After breezing through differential calc, I struggled with integrals before taking analytic geometry, which I loved most of all math classes. Then I hit the wall with differential equations, getting my only college C. After that class, I was only five credits from a math minor but I wanted no more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_geometry">Analytic geometry

[racaulk]

29. I had a very similar experience.

Math was always an easy A for me growing up, and I never had to study. Algebra and Geometry were both a breeze. I really didn't have to put in any effort in any Math class until I got to Calculus my senior year, and even that didn't require too much effort. I made a 5 on my AP Calculus exam and aced both Calculus II and III in college.

Then I took Differential Equations.

That class was an exercise in pure hell. I struggled with that material every single day that semester and somehow managed to get a C out of that class. That was the only time I had not made an A in math in my life. And today, I couldn't tell you the first thing that I learned in that class or anything that we talked about.

After that class, I changed my major from Math to Accounting, and I'm much better off for it now. I didn't even have the desire to get the Math minor, which would have only taken me 8 more credit hours to pick up. DE just ruined Math for me.

x(

[pokerfan]

36. I stuck with the EE studies

learning that ODE's can be solved with the Laplace transform. I don't need to solve the DE classically to solve an RLC circuit.

I think most of my DE problems were due to a poor text and an instructor I could barely understand.

[qwertyMike]

11. In real life

There is no use for Algebra

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I loved them both!!! You can't have one without the other.

MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!! MATH!!!!!

IT'S LIKE AN ORGASM IN MY HEAD!!!!!

[Ava]

13. on the ACT i did really good on the geometry and trig parts

i bombed the algebra part though, lol. i had completely forgotten basic algebra(which is why i'm taking a refresher course before i test again next month).

[Dr. Strange]

14. I picked Algebra...

because I like Number Theory. Which is what all of the cool mathematicians like.

[TZ]

22. hmm

I thought you weren't very good with numbers..As I recall you have a hard time with any number past ELEVEN.....:rofl:

[Dr. Strange]

40. That's not true!

I can simplify this:

11² - 5(11) + 3.

And that's a number bigger than 11.

[lightningandsnow]

15. Geometry.

Algebra and trig are also kind of OK, I just really hate the math I'm doing now (Functions).

I. HATE. FUNCTIONS!

Lucky Americans. You get the easy math :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

21. Functions? Is there a whole class devoted to them then, or something?

:rofl:

[lightningandsnow]

25. Pretty much. Well, the grade 11 math course is called "Functions and Relations"

I don't mind the basic stuff, like transformations... but I frickin hate completing the square.

[TZ]

37. Remember that talk we had about Canadian ed vs. US ed.?

I can pretty confidently say what you are doing is stuff most of us did not do until college...

[Dr. Strange]

39. Here in the US...

you're not allowed to vote in an election unless you know how to complete a square.

Just some little known trivia. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

16. I hated anything involving math in high school.

I'd rather write a dozen essays than solve one crap-lousy equation, ahah.

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. Geometry...

it was the only math subject that I got straight As in when I was in high school. I'm a B/C student at best in all other math disciplines. I'll gladly do proofs all day

[IzaSparrow]

18. I killed at algebra...

proofs took the fun out of geometry

[Scooter24]

19. I love both...

I ended up getting a 98 for the year in High School Geometry and a 104 for the year in Alegebra II. Both are great in their own respects but I really clicked with Calculus my junior year making a 98. I had outstanding teachers :D

[JTG of the PRB]

20. I prefer letters to numbers.

I took my only college math class in my first semester (out of what turned out to be 10 semesters), and I never looked back. I do not miss math one bit. Sure, I still do basic stuff every now and then to keep my brain tuned up, but geometry and algebra are a little out of my league. I hated hated HATED algebra in high school.

[MissHoneychurch]

23. Algebra

I loved algebra and tri but hated geometry.

Sometimes I really miss math. I haven't had it since in years, like since I finished school. I am really wondering if there are classes out there where you can do it just for fun. Of course I would have to start with the 8th grade again or something to get into it again.

[jus_the_facts]

24. Math: this is my head trying to wrap around it....

:nuke:

I was gifted in reading comprehension but almost shut down completely in math....it's one of my biggest regrets about my education...since discussions of quantum mechanics fascinate me now it shames me I never really tried to learn math beyond the basics...and I sneaked through the system and graduated high school with only taking one pre-algebra class. x(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. i loved both. actually i like all aspects of high school math

[Fox Mulder]

27. My gods, neither.

[Kutjara]

28. I'm definitely on the algebra/trig/calculus side.

I prefer to think in symbols and words, rather than pictures, so I found geometry irritating and annoying. When I was in high school, I lasted about a week in geometry class before managing to bluff my guidance counsellor into letting me skip straight to analytical geometry (by pretending I found it too easy). It was such a relief not having to do all that proctracty-bisecty proof stuff any more.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

41. So true.

Pictures are crazy, and I can't wrap my head around them. :D

[racaulk]

30. I voted for both.

There wasn't a single Math class that I took in HS that I didn't love! I was a bit of a Math geek back then... :hi:

[Orsino]

31. Higher mathematics depends on both.

I know someone whose high school omitted geometry, and this person's trig suffered for it. And therefore calculus, too.

[New Earth]

32. i love geometry!

probably my favorite aspect of math. I HATE ALGEBRA. I do not like numbers mixed in with letters :mad:

[dropkickpa]

33. In HS, I HATED algebra

Loved geometry. But out here in the real world, I actually have much more use for algebra than geometry, and once I actually saw some real-world applications of it, I grew to love it. The way they teach math, especially algebra, in this country is laughable.

I liked geometry because I liked being able to figure out how to find the area of a square, etc. It was neat and a lot more "real" to me than algebra.

[Haole Girl]

34. I liked Algebra...

up to a certain point, that I couldn't get past.

I also despised Geometry.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

35. I almost flunked Geometry.

And my teacher sucked. I hated it.

[electron_blue]

38. I like geometry better than algebra, but I picked both bcs you put calc in the algebra

section. I loved calculus, but that seems closer to geometry than algebra to me.

Geometry was lovely. All those shapes and angles floating around in my head. Plus, I liked the proofs. Seriously, my geometry class in high school was an epiphany for me.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

42. I always liked both Algebra and Geometry

and did well in both. But Calculus... totally messed me up. So, using the logic I learned in Geometry, I came up with the following theorem:

1. I do well in Math
2. I suck at Calculus
3. Therefore, Calculus is not Math

What do you think?

:P

[applegrove]

43. Though I cannot remember any geometry I was really good at proofs.

I'd work backwards and got 100% on tests. I liked that feeling of mastery. Doesn't happen often in my life. But for geometry it did.

[Duer 157099]

44. I think I would group Trig with Geometry

I liked both of those, but not Algebra or Calculus.

[ceile]

45. Hate geometry!

The only math class I got a B in. Well, except calculus, but I dropped it when I realized that I was severely mentally challenged in it.

[Jimbo S]

46. Algebra

Geometry is too analytical. Anything involving numbers is second nature to me.