grammypatty7

I was never a bad math student in school but math and I aren't friends yet with the aid of a calculator I can balance the check book to the penny and do what I refer to as "voluted quilt math." My husband is a retired high school math teacher and our son and daughter were both math majors in college and our daughter is a math/english teacher and our son works as sales manager for a Ford/Lincoln dealership. They laugh at me and my convoluted math logic which for some bizzare reason works well every time. LOL However I always figure things out two different ways to have a check to make sure I have it right. For math examples of how math/geometry applies to regular life, my daughter fills her room with my quilts and they do a lot of fun and unique math related project such as building bridges and buildings using q tips and toothpicks.

klgreene

I was just thinking the same thing the other day....why, oh why didn't I pay more attention in geometry.

Magdalena

My sentiments exactly! :shock:

majormom

Amen :cry:

deema

HAHA! I have a calculator, graph paper and crayons in my sewing area to calculate yardage and draw pictures of my pattern...and I failed math AND art classes in highschool. Somehow I aced math in college, and even peer tutored...Lord know how...

IowaStitcher

We all need math at some level. If you don't believe this, go to McD's sometime and have a teenager try to make change for you. I'm SO glad my daughter is a math teacher!!

nantucketsue

I never appreciated that geometry was involved in the quilting process! I thought it was just fractions. Well I was hopeless at both, although I had no problem adding up, subtracting and multiplying, anything else just went over my head. Now I am over s...y, and a quilter I have at last grasped (a little) the science of geometry without even realising it. Perhaps schools should teach quilting first then the geometry and fractions will come naturally. Incidentally, I only achieved C's in my needlework class.

Lady Shivesa

I'm not very good at math, unfortunately. You should have seen me in JoAnn's the other day, counting on my fingers and trying to figure out what 30% of these two different fabrics were, then half that price 'cause I was only getting half a yard of each, then what that plus my other purchases would total (I buy on an allowance, so I gotta stay under $10).

So today when I dropped in again to pick up one last fabric - I brought my cell phone and did the math on the calculator function!

Ada Shiela

What does that mean Martina? When studying IT in 1995 onwards (I was 55 then) I needed algebra, indices, and probabilities and statistics - they were all rude words to me and I couldn't understand why we needed to play with the dice - I found logic and bits and bytes much easier to understand, but I can figure out anything in quilting :lol: I do most sums in my head or on paper and don't like calculators. I can build a computer (older style now 286-486+ because today's pcs configure themselves) but don't like playing with the remote control on tv :roll: We can do whatever we think is worth knowing about :thumbup:

Ada Shiela

You're confusing me Bearisgray :roll: