O/T School Subjects

[phild]

Algebra - wtf was that all about? I also remember having to go to a Post Office to buy something called log tables and would have to use them to calculate sines and cosines and some other nonsense. In fact I was rubbish at maths. Also hated swimming never got passed doggie paddle.

[WBA1955]

I never made a thing in woodwork I used to hide under the desks for three periods, the teacher was shortsighted and didn't know that I was there. It was the second year before he realised that he had another pupil in his class.
He would do the same project as us with his back to the class.
One day one lad dared another to throw a hand brush at him for ten Bob. He bounced it off the back of his head and knocked him out.
They expelled the kid for that.😮

[Baggies_Boy_Tony]

Algebra - wtf was that all about? I also remember having to go to a Post Office to buy something called log tables and would have to use them to calculate sines and cosines and some other nonsense. In fact I was rubbish at maths. Also hated swimming never got passed doggie paddle.

Totally agree Phil, I was fairly decent at Maths but never get my head round Algebra, never used since leaving school

[Joy_Division]

In the juniors we did adding, subtraction and long division and provided I concentrated I could do the problems and get them right. I managed to pass my 11 plus exam and went to grammar school but into the second or third year we started with the algebra, logarithms and geometry and that is where I went down the tubes to the point where I did not even sit maths GCSE let alone O level. In maths lessons I was allowed to do revision and homework. My dad knew nothing of this arrangement as he would have killed me.

[WBA1955]

I have found in general that people who enjoy doing maths are the most boring folk on the planet.

[mickd1961]

I have found in general that people who enjoy doing maths are the most boring folk on the planet.

Did you hear about the constipated mathematician Des?


He worked it out with a pencil.

[WBA1955]

I remember once me and my wife sat and watched one of those open university programme's they put on in daytime.
This professor was doing algebra and was trying to find out what X was. It took him half an hour and a a board full of working out before he revealed that the answer was zero, zilch, diddly squat.
What a waste of time that was, half an hour to find f uck all was there.
Mad as lollipops the lot of them.

[WBA1955]

Did you hear about the constipated mathematician Des?


He worked it out with a pencil.

🤣🤣🤣

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

I have found in general that people who enjoy doing maths are the most boring folk on the planet.

I've always been good at mental maths. Love working out %ages especially profits which was never boring. Even now try and work things out in my head and avoid using a calculator if I can do without.

No patience if I have to add or subtract columns of figures on paper. That to me is an account and they are the most boring folk on the planet. Their job is to be negative/pessimistic and I'm not much good around those sorts.

[phild]

In the juniors we did adding, subtraction and long division and provided I concentrated I could do the problems and get them right. I managed to pass my 11 plus exam and went to grammar school but into the second or third year we started with the algebra, logarithms and geometry and that is where I went down the tubes to the point where I did not even sit maths GCSE let alone O level. In maths lessons I was allowed to do revision and homework. My dad knew nothing of this arrangement as he would have killed me.

Logarithms, that's what them log books were for!! Forgot the name of the subject. You have actually described me to a tee, regarding maths. Our school also did metalwork, I mean metalwork!! what bloody use was that to anybody? I was cr@p at that as well.