Monday, April 12, 2010

Word Problems

For homework tonight in Geometry, I have a worksheet on perimeter word problems. First of all, Geometry sucks to put it simply, but these word problems are ridiculous. It's like the elements to each problem are trying to out do each other. For example, One problem is asking for the lengths of the sides of the triangle when you only know the perimeter. Each sentence in the problem gets tenser and tenser. "Side A is 50 times greater than half of side C. Side C is 500 times larger than the previous answer minus 43 on Side B. Then, to get the most difficult and complicated answer of your life, divide 789 by Side A in Calculus form along with Pythagorean Theorem. The Perimeter is 2" Enough said. These problems are creating too much unneeded stress on our generation of Geometry-ians. I am tired of crying myself to sleep after trying to map out the impossible bunny rabbit graphing problem. "WHY ARE MY WHISKERS ON HIS FEET??!!!" This is said by too many students these days. Get up from your eraser shedding covered desks and stand up to the MAN! We're not going down without a fight. Amen.

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