This is the thought I had when I was in high school.
I liked math when I was young. Then came high school and my first algebra class. I had to work for it but still managed to get a B.
Geometry sophomore year was not good. I didn’t understand it, I struggled but managed to still get out of there with a B. I will never know how.
Enter Algebra 2 in my junior year.
Awful
Inexplicable
This stuff makes NO sense
I will NOT use it in my every day life. Why must I take it?
On the very last day I could declare, I decided to take the class on pass/fail thinking that I would pass it. Maybe with a D, but I would pass it and it wouldn’t hurt my GPA. I failed.
The spectacular crash and burn.
I got tutoring and I still couldn’t pass it but apparently I got something for effort because I did manage to get a Pass on my report card.
This morning, we were walking in the cemetery like we do every morning.
There were some guys preparing to dig a grave. They were measuring and remeasuring.
David said, “Can you imagine if you dug the wrong place? You wouldn’t even be able to hide your mistake.”
I had been talking with my friend, Mariam, on twitter this a.m. about math and who uses it in real life.
Well, in order to make nice clean lines like this
grave diggers do!
I’m so glad I’m not a grave digger. 
Oh heck, Lauri. I sucked BIG time at math in school. Really, really big time. It never made any sense. Then, about twenty years ago, I started quilting. And suddenly, geometry made molto sense! I use it for quilting, all the time, too! LOL
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Digging around my brain, not unlike a grave digger, trying to see how I actually use it in real life.
I never in a million years thought I would use math as much as I do. I despised it – was horrible at it – and only passed my college math classes because my prof let me write essays on mathematicians. But then I found myself in a field that depends upon a LOT of math. I use algebra daily. If my math teachers could see me now….
That’s awesome. I eventually got an A in college algebra and trigonometry so it may have just been a maturation thing. Although, I did promptly forget it.