Oh My Fuggin' God!
The maths.... 2 pages of different problems to sum up in your head. Let me give you an example;
48 x 17 /13 = ?
Maths was never my forte anyway and it's been ages since I had to do them in my head. I'm sure I could have figured it out but that might not have been any time left for the others. So I just focused on the ones I could be bothered with.
Calculators were invented for a reason, People! I'm sure even the Greek mathematician Euclid would have used one had they been invented...
Anyway, I did my best and I think/hope I did ok on the other parts. If not, then I'll have to try something else. At the end of the day it's just a stupid test that made me feel stupid. Oh well, it's not the first time that's happened.
2 comments:
Oh my fuggin god indeed!!! I cannot do maths in my head. I am not mathematical at all, in fact, if there were a disorder whereby a person had an aversion to numbers such that they didn't make any sense to the person and made the person brain 'shut down'- then I would TOTALLY have that disorder. In fact, maybe I should invent it, for all us mental arithmetically challenged folk! lol
Quoting Mr. O'Neill in Frank McCourt's Angels's Ashes:
"Without Euclid, boys, mathematics would be a poor doddering thing. Without Euclid we wouldn't be able to go from here to there. Without Euclid the bicycle would have no wheel. Without Euclid St.Joseph could not have been a carpenter for carpentry is geometry and geometry is carpentry. Without Euclid this very school could never have been built."
But I'm guessing you would more agree with Paddy Clohessy from the same book when he said: "Feckin' Euclid"???
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