It's Called "maths" Instead Of "math" Because It's Called "mathematics" Instead Of "mathematic"

TFW even the math textbook is telling you to take a break

math rant, sorry

i genuinely think that math hating is a learned social behavior. you have to hate it to be relatable, otherwise you're a nerd - and not the eccentric fun kind of science nerd. also there is this assumption that if you're not naturally good at it, you shouldn't even try, which doesn't really exist for other subjects. like, students won't mind writing an essay, or doing arts, even if they're not amazing at it, but doing math when they might fail is somehow torture.

all these memes like "pythagoras is useless irl" and "satan put the alphabet in math" read to me like "the curtains were blue cause they were blue!!>:(" bs, but receive way less criticism online. do people even agree with the memes, or is it just herd mentality? cause honestly, why is math more useless than anything else we learn in school? why is saying "x-2=4" more evil than saying "what minus two equals four"?

of course, math people with low self esteem and condescending auras are also to blame for making math unappealing, as well as math teachers with no social skills lol. but the overall meme-ability of math hating sure is not helping, cause kids go into school with the expectation that math will be hard and they won't enjoy it

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to run low on storage space

im so fucking stupid someone gave me 9/25 as a probability and i tried to convert it into % form and instead of multiplying 25 and 9 by 4 to get 36/100 or 36% (like my friend did) i realised they were both square numbers then square rooted 9/25 to get 3/5 then translated that to 0.6 or 6/10 then squared that to get 36/100 then converted that to 36%. why did i do any of that. like come on.

sciencetists conjecture a "island of stability" at around 15-16 standard cups of coffee

remember in fleabag when claire and fleabag were sitting at the cemetery and claire said "I can't wait to be old" like i don't know why but that line fundamentally changed my brain chemistry. she said it so tiredly but at the same time how fucking revolutionary is it to see someone on television express anything other than distaste for getting older, especially a woman? claire is my fucking favorite