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Utterly Pointless
May. 17th, 2006 05:35 pmQuestion 1: A 50-feet wire running from the top of a tent pole to the ground makes an angle of 58 degrees with the ground. If the length of the tent pole is 44 feet, how far is it from the bottom of the tent pole to the point where the wire is fastened to the ground? (The tent pole is not necessarily perpendicular to the ground.)
Question 2: A person standing on the street looks up to the top of a building and finds that the angle of elevation is 38 degress, She then walks one block further away (440 feet) and finds that the angle of elevation to the top of the building is now 28 degrees. How far way from the building is she when she makes her second observation?
Question 3: WHO GIVES A FLYING PINK POLAR BEAR ABOUT TRIGONOMETRY?!?!?!!!!
I hatehateHATE that class, even more than Computer Applications, which is something to achieve.
I firmly believe that Trig will be the first (and last) class I will EVER earn a C in in my high school career and it's one of the first classes where I've constantly gotten bad grades on my tests.
My last test grade - 72%. A two tests ago - 69%. In fact, everyone did so badly on those last two tests that our teacher made us do a retake test on both.
My retake test grade for the second test - 65%.
4% points worse!!! AND that was even after I got Emily Hansen to show me what I was doing!!!
Only four people in my class have As. In fact, out of Ms. Hales three trig classes, 47% of her students failed the last test we took.
!!!!!!
If that's not a glaring neon sign of her incompetence as a teacher, I don't know what is. Don't you think the school adminstration would look into something like that?!
And what is the POINT of Trig in the first place?! I know you'll need to be an engineer or an architect, but really, when are we EVER going to have to prove that
csc2X = (secX + cscX)/(2sinX + 2cosX)
in real life?!
Especially when you have a teacher who doesn't show you how to prove it correctly?!
[/END RANT]
So, anyway, there's less than a week left of school and an actual week until my birthday! Yay!
I have a job interview at Little Caeser's in an hour...Better start getting ready.
Question 2: A person standing on the street looks up to the top of a building and finds that the angle of elevation is 38 degress, She then walks one block further away (440 feet) and finds that the angle of elevation to the top of the building is now 28 degrees. How far way from the building is she when she makes her second observation?
Question 3: WHO GIVES A FLYING PINK POLAR BEAR ABOUT TRIGONOMETRY?!?!?!!!!
I hatehateHATE that class, even more than Computer Applications, which is something to achieve.
I firmly believe that Trig will be the first (and last) class I will EVER earn a C in in my high school career and it's one of the first classes where I've constantly gotten bad grades on my tests.
My last test grade - 72%. A two tests ago - 69%. In fact, everyone did so badly on those last two tests that our teacher made us do a retake test on both.
My retake test grade for the second test - 65%.
4% points worse!!! AND that was even after I got Emily Hansen to show me what I was doing!!!
Only four people in my class have As. In fact, out of Ms. Hales three trig classes, 47% of her students failed the last test we took.
!!!!!!
If that's not a glaring neon sign of her incompetence as a teacher, I don't know what is. Don't you think the school adminstration would look into something like that?!
And what is the POINT of Trig in the first place?! I know you'll need to be an engineer or an architect, but really, when are we EVER going to have to prove that
csc2X = (secX + cscX)/(2sinX + 2cosX)
in real life?!
Especially when you have a teacher who doesn't show you how to prove it correctly?!
[/END RANT]
So, anyway, there's less than a week left of school and an actual week until my birthday! Yay!
I have a job interview at Little Caeser's in an hour...Better start getting ready.
