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When You Do Math. . .

Do You Count On Your Fingers, Or In Your Head?

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Nomenclature

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Do you do some of the basic counting on your fingers, or just do it all in your head?
 
I use my head to remember where I put my calculator, which I then use my fingers on to do the math. :p
 
I cant think of any type of math where my fingers would be helpful... Anything less than 10 doesnt require maths but common sense...
 
24 and over a bit of both. 24 and under somehow I always just knew what the answer was.
 
Well, I mean you memorize your multiplication tables and all that stuff, so you can do it in your head. . .but if i'm carrying a number, i'll quickly do the tens in my head and add the few Ones digits on the finger of my left hand. It's all subconscious to me while i'm keeping my mind on the other parts of the equation, I suppose.
 
I can do little calculations in my head. And my vote probably won't count because I'm Asian. duh! :P
 
Both. Heads when I need to make it quick, fingers when I need more accuracy.
 
longtermjubber said:
I never do 'math' (sic); I only ever do mathematics, or maths. ..|
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They only pluralize the word "math" in Britain and other English-speaking part of the wprld.


I never wear " coloured armour"; I only ever wear colored armor.
 
Yeha, this is just about the one time where I side with the Yanks. It's math. Abstract noun. No need of a superfluous "s."

But Nomenclature, you'd better put your armor on (LOL armor bwaahhahaha) because them's fightin' words, and no matter what colour you're wearing, we're going to throw you in the back of a lorry headed for the nearest gaol, where you'll be pulverised by men with aluminium bats.

"Only in britain and other english-speaking parts of the world." Oh, there. Yes. Way over there.
 
bankside said:
Yeha, this is just about the one time where I side with the Yanks. It's math. Abstract noun. No need of a superfluous "s."

But Nomenclature, you'd better put your armor on (LOL armor bwaahhahaha) because them's fightin' words, and no matter what colour you're wearing, we're going to throw you in the back of a lorry headed for the nearest gaol, where you'll be pulverised by men with aluminium bats.

"Only in britain and other english-speaking parts of the world." Oh, there. Yes. Way over there.
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Fuck math. other than counting money why do you need math. my mother and father can't really count but I can enough.
 
bankside said:
Yeha, this is just about the one time where I side with the Yanks. It's math. Abstract noun. No need of a superfluous "s."

But Nomenclature, you'd better put your armor on (LOL armor bwaahhahaha) because them's fightin' words, and no matter what colour you're wearing, we're going to throw you in the back of a lorry headed for the nearest gaol, where you'll be pulverised by men with aluminium bats.

"Only in britain and other english-speaking parts of the world." Oh, there. Yes. Way over there.
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It's MATHEMATICS and so MATHS for short as in many kinds not just one. But I'm a yank, so to speak, and so say math.

BTW, when I count I count by 4's or 3's or 7's or 20's, whatever jumps out at me. :cool:
 
It depends, if your talking basic math like adding/subtracting/multiplying (i can't divided in my head to save my life) simple things then of course my head. But for more complicatied things like logarithms I used Tx-Ti84 lol been using computer caculators since 4th graded and don't plan on changing now that I'm in college.
 
Somewhere along the line, I failed to really flourish in math...

It's likely a combination of my own problems, plus some poor teachers I've had in the past. I know in elementary school I was taken out of French classes to be put into a little 'catch-up' period, where we were given a bit more hands on tutoring on math.

Despite the great teaching there, and us often finishing chapters ahead of the other students, I still never really got the hang of it. And high school didn't help, where the teacher there would give you extra help and such if she liked you, and left you on your own if she didn't...

She also did a little 'come before class for help' thing, which I often attended, but it still didn't really help. She also wasn't very encouraging, considering that during my first time taking Math A30, she told me during the first exam as she dropped it at my desk to 'consider whether or not to continue in this class.'

Of course, when it became clear from the section totals that I couldn't pass the class, she wouldn't sign off on letting me drop it; because sitting there should help me for the next time around...Of course, this also meant I got no help from her because why help someone who can't pass the course anyways...

I'm ashamed to admit that I ended up taking Math A30 a grand total of 3 times before I eventually passed the course. The second time I took it ended up much like the first, where I bombed a large section of the class work which meant there was no way I could pass the course. And again, she wouldn't let me drop.

We had 4 different math teachers in the school, yet I always seemed to get her. I can't help but wonder if she specifically requested me for her course, or what, but you'd think after failing once with her, I'd get a chance with a different teacher...

I found that my problem usually was that I would learn one or two units really well, but then once we moved away from that and started doing different units, I would end up forgetting how to do the proceeding unit...Which is not a good thing come year end exam, where you need to do it all.

So, to this day, I still mostly count on my fingers. It's a bit embarrassing when I have to do math in public, but I guess I just managed to fall through the cracks some how, and despite some attempts to correct it, it just never worked.
 
As a mathematics academic, I use either my head, pencil and paper, or a computer algebra system. I rarely, if ever, count on my fingers.

-T.
 
I used to be a major math geek, but since switching over to the humanities, I seem to have lost my ability to do quick mental math except when calculating students' grades. (And even then I've been known to make the occasional error.)
 
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