WHY did you do MATHS in the FIRST PLACE? (1 Viewer)

[ur_inner_child]

In year 11... I dropped all three units of maths down to NO MATHS whatsoever on the basis that I hated it.

Considering I had Band 6 in the School Cert, and I had got great awards in Mathematics, I just want to know if I had done something stupid as to drop maths completely simply because I didn't enjoy it despite talent.

So lets see why the rest of you kept maths for...

 

[ur_inner_child]

Oh and if there's another reason why, please specify...

 

[Estel]

heh band 6 ... every tom, dick and harry got a band 6... my friends who loathe maths and did none for yr 11 got high 90's.... so SC has nothing to do with it.

Why do maths?
Maths is quite simply, the best subject.

 

[sub]

estel...i agree maths is the single most enjoyable subject in the world!!! i LOVE getting up at 5am to get to school for morning class!!! its sooooo fun...

- NOTE - tone: sarcastic

 

[PenelopeK]

so true Estel !!

 

[ur_inner_child]

heh band 6 ... every tom, dick and harry got a band 6... my friends who loathe maths and did none for yr 11 got high 90's.... so SC has nothing to do with it.

*takes the dagger out of her heart*

Well I was proud of my band 6 thank you very much! lol.

Besides, I did good in 3u too... just never enjoyed it *shrugs* oh well, I'll leave band 6 up to you then.

 

[L45er]

I enjoy maths, but lack motivation due to my teacher and her attitude to class. But maths is a pre-requisite for a lot of university courses - although you can do bridging courses i suppose if you want to get into one of these courses?

 

[Slidey]

I chose all the poll options.

MATHS > u

 

[Estel]

meh I will say tho that if it was a 4u english poll or 3u hist poll I'd say exactly the same thing

 

[JamiL]

i do maths simply cos its my best subject. with out it i think ill strugle 2 get a uai near 90. and id only have 8units (9 but wouldn include sor as a subject). but i do enjoy things im good at (maths), but in uni i would rather not do it (ie i want 2 do medicine)

 

[Estel]

you really think maths will boost your uai by 8/9?

 

[velox]

it could easily. Do what you are best at and enjoy.

 

[ur_inner_child]

disappointed with "if you dont do maths, you'll get no where in life" bit....

Isn't that a bit generalising???

 

[withoutaface]

you really think maths will boost your uai by 8/9?

Yes, considering my maths marks are gonna end up like 8-9 higher than most of my other subjects.

I did maths because:
a) it's a challenge
b) I enjoy it
c) I do well at it

 

[Will_Sparky]

I dropped from 3u in 11 to 2u simply because I really couldn't stand maths, but I hated physics MUCH more, so I dropped the physics and kept maths, my aim at the end was to pick up ext history and drop Chem, once more cause I hate(d) it more than maths!

 

[sub]

disappointed with "if you dont do maths, you'll get no where in life" bit....

Isn't that a bit generalising???

einstein failed maths too.

...but then again he was a nerd

 

[bloodysunday]

srsly, for me, maths is a sinch, particularly the easier points of course. doing 3unit until the trials kinda helped , but yeah as ive said before im all about rules and formulae, so maths is my cuppa coffee (i dont like tea )

 

[Xayma]

einstein failed maths too.

...but then again he was a nerd

Einstein never failed maths, he was quite gifted at it.

What happened was in his final year of school, they reversed the marking system, so that what was top mark became bottom mark and vice versa (I think they used a scale of 1-6). He did fail an entrance exam to university but that was to do with his French, but he did take the test at 16, two years earlier then normal and went to that university two years later.

 

[acmilan]

I did maths because my teacher told me to do it, i was failing in yr 9 and 10 and was planning to do general but he told me to do 3 unit so i did it

 

[GromReaper]

I did Maths because I wasn't all that bad at it (in Year 10 at least) and because I couldn't really think of anything else to fill my units.