i want to know a way i can use math while i'm not learning it to improve and to get better at anything else
How can I use math in my free time example in online games and stuff like that?
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- 3+ months ago by sebastian...
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i'm thinking about, i dunno what it's called but math where you start work with letters instead of numbers
Answers (1)
Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.
Get some wood and build a box. Check craigslist.com to see who has pallets or other free wood. Get a "Drafting 101" book at the community college book store and design something, such as a nicer box. See if there is something interesting at micromark.com or sciplus.com
and in my contry we don't use inch we use cm
The purpose of my little essay is to give people practice in handling numbers. A lot of people think they know math but in fact they have never had enough practice. You learn math faster in woodshop than almost anyplace else.
I am sorry if my posts seem curt. They were all developed at a site where answers were limited to 1200 characters.
i just finished studying boilermaking dunno if it's the right translation, and i'm restudying math again to get a good understanding of it for when i need to study biology. i dunno how i can verify how well i do with numbers, but i think i do it pretty well.
did i write as if i didn't know what math was?