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amandasgramma 09-14-2010 04:04 PM

:mrgreen: I've been saying "Mr. Ross would be so pleased"...Mr. Ross was our math teacher....and I was sooooooooo dumb! But, I've learned more here than I did in his classes!!!!

hospicenurse 09-16-2010 01:35 AM

I HATE math.......thank the Lord I married a math teacher!!

mcdaniel023 09-16-2010 01:43 AM


Originally Posted by hospicenurse
I HATE math.......thank the Lord I married a math teacher!!

Me, too.

judylg 09-16-2010 02:52 AM

Must have paid more attention in math classes then I thought I did, it makes sense now. However at the time, it made no sense. Who would have thought? Funny stuff!

quiltingfan 09-16-2010 03:06 AM

That is why they made that handy calculator that I have seen in the quilt shops. Right? I am terrible at math and struggle all the time to know how much fabric to use for a quilt. I am asking for the EQ for xmas.

Fabaddict 09-16-2010 05:48 AM

had they made it more interesting, we all might have paid more attention.

Jan in VA 09-16-2010 06:24 AM


Originally Posted by MadQuilter
a square plus b square equals c square sure comes in handy for those setting triangles.

Huh? :lol:
Jan in VA

Minnisewta 09-16-2010 06:46 AM

Math, who needs math? Lucky for me my husband is a math wiz and most of my quilt friends are pretty good too.

bearisgray 09-16-2010 07:44 AM


Originally Posted by MadQuilter
a square plus b square equals c square sure comes in handy for those setting triangles.

Then you need to find the square root of c to find the length of the hypotenuse.

Never could understand why the square root of c was different from a + b

Butterflyblue 09-16-2010 07:48 AM

Yes, I've often thought that if they had combined home ec and geometry and had us making quilts, I would have been much more inspired to do my geometry homework. But at the time, of course, I wasn't a quilter, so who knows if it really would have helped.

If you are homeschooling, though, it seems to have real possibility.


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