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Everyday Mathematics

An exotic form of torture created by McGraw Hill. This system of math learning generally involves learning skills such as: typing numbers onto a calculator, realizing HomeLinks (Homework Pages) have answer keys on them, and most importantly helps your child feel like they understand what they are learning, possibly due to the fact that is because the course teaches one concept over 5 years. Generally when students move on to Algebra, they begin to realize the meaning of Everyday Mathematics. Useless crap.
See algebra. Student: Did you understand how to do the HomeLinks last night?
StudentB: No, I just looked at the key.
Student: Wh...at?! But I was looking in the Everyday Mathematics SRI that she tells us to use!
StudentB: You're an idiot.
by renco_miniac August 27, 2010
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Magical Thinking in Mathematics

When we deceive ourselves and allow others to deceive us on myths, mysteries, and magic in mathematics, be they via half-baked concepts, faux hypotheses, fallacies, paradoxes, tricks, and the like.
How can we fall for less magical thinking in mathematics? By teaching about faulty thinking habits, exposing false assumptions or hypotheses, warning against unquestioned extrapolation or generalization of rules or formulas, and debunking irrational or conspiratorial thinking.
by MathPlus May 5, 2023
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Mathematics

1. A truly amasing subject enjoyed only by the people who understand it.

2. Science would not exist without mathematics.

3. "Mathematics is not magic... just logic" - my maths teacher ><

4. Some ignorant people believe that maths is a male subject (Pffft) =)
Doing a mathematics question:
Gather the important information; figure out what you are required to find; apply the formulae most apropriate to the question; calculate.

The feeling of getting the correct answer (expecially if you have toiled a great deal over it) is unbeatable.

It's orgasmic ;)
by Yuukiiscool March 31, 2009
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mathematics

n.
1) A mind-altering form of logic and proof, practiced and developed largely by nerds and geeks, having its origins in prehistory. That study of logic in which simple ideas such as number, line, point or symmetry are used and combined to describe the properties of number, point, line, plane and symmetry.

Subjects within a modern mathematics degree might include selected topics from;

Number Theory: the analysis of why not all numbers are like the number 1.

Calculus: Differential calculus is the study of how to find the slope of a single point while integral calculus is the study of how to add up infinite quantities of numbers and obtain a single finite number as a result.

Topology: The study of how coffee cups are actually quite similar to doughnuts.

Mathematics as a form of mental kung fu is used extensively in all the sciences and in business and trade, it is at the heart of all technical progress. The average person uses mathematics, for example, to locate bargains in shopping malls by simply looking at a few numerals on a price tag.
Hey Cuthberton, did I tell you that I used some kickass zen master mathematics to calculate which mathgirl I would ask out to the science fair?
by Costa Del Barto June 25, 2006
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beer mathematics

Used to define a person's inability to count (particularly beers) when intoxicated.
Guy 1: How many beers have I got?
Guy 2: You've got 2. You drunk 2
Guy 1: But I had 4
Guy 2: I know. you drank 2, and you've got 2 left
Guy 1: So there's 2 empty ones left, and 2 unempty ones?
Guy 2: What the hell is unempty?
Guy 3: XD I fucking love beer mathematics
by Grunge Monkey October 9, 2005
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DJ Mathematics

A genius of the sick beats and the turntables that produce them.
Her beats are so fresh, she sells them at the Sunday market.
She emits strange growling sounds when angry, and is best known for her trademark 'fingers-in-the-air' victory dance.
Isa: Hey, whats that growling noise?

Dan: I think it's DJ Mathematics

Isa: It sounds like a raccoon

DJ Mathematics: rrrrooooo
by the truth00999 November 10, 2011
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Useless gibberish of an answer to a math question that somehow ends up with the right answer.
How did you do that? By the Hogwash Theorem of Mathematics
by Hagwash The Second November 6, 2020
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