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NovemberEcho said:
I've never had a trig class in my life. If I ever use it, I'm unaware I'm using it. I'm even rather ashamed to admit I had to google the formula to find the circumference of a circle last week while I was landscaping. And yet somehow, I manage to get by just fine. When you're not calculating crosswind components or descent angle to miss your crossing restriction, there really is very little need for anything more than basic arithmetic in the average persons life. Don't pay other people to think for me and hire people as little as possible. (Plumbing and electrical i won't mess with on my home, but that's about it.)
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Literally every project on your house that involves angles. Pipe bending really comes to mind, but flooring and shingles. If you build just about anything. I guess you can use trial and error until you get it, but math will save you hours of time on that.
The only time I don't use math is at work. The airplane does it all for you.
 
ppragman said:
Probably - I've come to the conclusion that math through trig and then a "calculus concepts" course would be awesome "mandatory" courses for those wishing to graduate from HS...
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At my high school, everyone took 4 years of math. Geometry, Trig, Pre-Calc and Calc. This was at a backwoods podunk high school in the middle of a bunch of corn fields with a township population of about 2500. I would think a larger city does at least that, or has them available I guess.
 
z987k said:
At my high school, everyone took 4 years of math. Geometry, Trig, Pre-Calc and Calc. This was at a backwoods podunk high school in the middle of a bunch of corn fields with a township population of about 2500. I would think a larger city does at least that, or has them available I guess.
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Most places do not - consider yourself fortunate.

I only had to take through algebra 2 - then I took votech A&P classes through KCC. It was a good experience and I learned a lot, but yeah - I think I could have gotten away with less than that.
 
z987k said:
At my high school, everyone took 4 years of math. Geometry, Trig, Pre-Calc and Calc. This was at a backwoods podunk high school in the middle of a bunch of corn fields with a township population of about 2500. I would think a larger city does at least that, or has them available I guess.
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My high school I did algebra 1 and 2, geometry, and probability/statistics. Trig/pre-calc/calc were electives.
 
z987k said:
Literally every project on your house that involves angles. Pipe bending really comes to mind, but flooring and shingles. If you build just about anything. I guess you can use trial and error until you get it, but math will save you hours of time on that.
The only time I don't use math is at work. The airplane does it all for you.
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Well then I guess I used it without realizing. I always lumped all that into geometry.
 
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