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		Researchers find anxiety about math triggers the same brain activity associated with physical sensation of pain -- which could be caused by a number of reasons (thechart.blogs.cnn.com)		81
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doyner		2012-11-01 12:52:36 PM

Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

PornStarStuntDouble		2012-11-01 02:34:42 PM

doyner: Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

Lies!

Ambitwistor		2012-11-01 02:36:52 PM

doyner: Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

Yeah, until I got to algebraic topology.

bring to a festering boil		2012-11-01 02:37:28 PM

....which could be caused by a number of reasons

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colonel0sanders		2012-11-01 02:37:48 PM

Ambitwistor: doyner: Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

Yeah, until I got to algebraic topology.

Truth. I've never met anything that I found so interesting, yet so hard to understand

grokca		2012-11-01 02:38:09 PM

This doesn't add up.

busy chillin'		2012-11-01 02:38:41 PM

math puns are easy as pi

protectyourlimbs		2012-11-01 02:40:19 PM

maybe the area of the brain that is triggered by math and pain is just the "do not want" area...

AverageAmericanGuy		2012-11-01 02:41:03 PM

It's "maths", subby.

IRQ12		2012-11-01 02:41:30 PM

Why is it the more we learn about learning the less we seem interested in learning.

Dr.Zom		2012-11-01 02:42:20 PM

Story of my life.

Bondith		2012-11-01 02:42:37 PM

AverageAmericanGuy
It's "maths", subby.

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Zizzowop		2012-11-01 02:42:50 PM

I was told there would be no math.

Ambitwistor		2012-11-01 02:43:08 PM

bring to a festering boil: ....which could be caused by a number of reasons

Zero is a number.

Wade_Wilson		2012-11-01 02:43:42 PM

At least TFA has an accurate headline. Newser actually has Math Can Hurt You-Physically, which isn't what the actual text says at all.

probesport		2012-11-01 02:43:45 PM

That explains why 6 was afraid of 7.

iheartscotch		2012-11-01 02:44:15 PM

In my case; it might be penguin induced PTSD. I went to a catholic grade school and a catholic high school.

/ I've got some real cool stories bro

probesport		2012-11-01 02:44:26 PM

Ambitwistor: bring to a festering boil: ....which could be caused by a number of reasons

Zero is a number.

Yes but 1 is the loneliest number.

Ambitwistor		2012-11-01 02:45:02 PM

Beerguy		2012-11-01 02:45:03 PM

Math Suks

perigee		2012-11-01 02:45:07 PM

Solty Dog		2012-11-01 02:46:24 PM

Math is easier when you come to the realization that everything is addition.

It's never anything more than adding this thing here to this other thing over here.

sulco		2012-11-01 02:46:27 PM

Studying for GMAT.. hitting math concepts I didn't take in high school many years ago. SO yes, math = pain.

/math is hard when you spell grammar with an e

RedVentrue		2012-11-01 02:46:30 PM

I blame the i

david_gaithersburg		2012-11-01 02:48:09 PM

I enjoy pain.

Sticky Hands		2012-11-01 02:48:12 PM

Tie her up and make her do long division
yeah, that's the stuff.

angry_scientist		2012-11-01 02:54:02 PM

After barely passing and algebra II twice, I said farkit, and took physics so I'd hopefully learn some type of useful highschool math and it actually worked. Ended up doing most the 'splainin to the college level math folks how stuff worked, and the proofs. So then they got the homework done faster during class for us so it was W /MFW

/interesting story bro

lewismarktwo		2012-11-01 02:57:21 PM

When I was younger and suffered from mild OCD (chewing the same number of times on each side of my mouth etc) I could learn math with ease. Now that I'm older and have far less energy, I find it more difficult. And with math, if you don't use it you lose it.

wildcardjack		2012-11-01 02:58:28 PM

doyner: Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

Ahem... Math does not get easier past algebra 2, but it does get more useful.

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Surool		2012-11-01 02:58:58 PM

Math is against the Geneva Conventions!

maxis_mydog		2012-11-01 02:59:59 PM

Learned response.

Tell someone that something is hard, enough times, they'll hate it/fear it before they try it.

grokca		2012-11-01 03:01:05 PM

I see that this thread is trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Ambitwistor		2012-11-01 03:03:56 PM

wildcardjack: Ahem... Math does not get easier past algebra 2, but it does get more useful.

I know! I've never had to use exponents in my life ever again, but a day doesn't go by without having to whip up a discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method.

barefoot in the head		2012-11-01 03:06:17 PM

1) Researchers find anxiety ~~about math~~ triggers the same brain activity associated with physical sensation of pain.
2) Anyone who tells me you can muliply letters by numbers is nuts. "Green times banana = crocodile".

Sure.

The only thing dumber is "music is math".

Homer Nixon		2012-11-01 03:06:36 PM

I enjoyed and am fascinated by the real-world applications of physics but I just fell to pieces trying to DO the math. Simply do not have a head for arithmetic.

SweetSaws		2012-11-01 03:06:42 PM

maxis_mydog: Learned response.

Tell someone that something is hard, enough times, they'll hate it/fear it before they try it.

wink wink

phlegmmo		2012-11-01 03:07:20 PM

maxis_mydog: Tell someone that something is hard, long, and thick enough times, they'll hate it/fear it before they try it.

Molavian		2012-11-01 03:09:19 PM

barefoot in the head: 1) Researchers find anxiety about math triggers the same brain activity associated with physical sensation of pain.
2) Anyone who tells me you can muliply letters by numbers is nuts. "Green times banana = crocodile".

Sure.

The only thing dumber is "music is math".

Everything is a language.

AmbassadorBooze		2012-11-01 03:10:49 PM

Give people a choice in the pain. Finish the math problem and feel made up mental pain, or don't finish it and the teacher gets to use a tazer.

Whole country of A+ math students in 3 months. Take that Korea!!!!

farbekrieg		2012-11-01 03:11:53 PM

i was told there would be no maths

I drunk what		2012-11-01 03:13:10 PM

PornStarStuntDouble: doyner: Walk it off, kids. Math is your friend. Honestly, everything is easier after Algebra II.

Lies!

there is delicious cake for everyone after algebra II

Fark Rye For Many Whores		2012-11-01 03:14:44 PM

busy chillin'		2012-11-01 03:15:23 PM

dopekitty74		2012-11-01 03:18:12 PM

Solty Dog: Math is easier when you come to the realization that everything is addition.

It's never anything more than adding this thing here to this other thing over here.

Long division dude.....

barefoot in the head		2012-11-01 03:20:45 PM

Molavian: barefoot in the head: 1) Researchers find anxiety about math triggers the same brain activity associated with physical sensation of pain.
2) Anyone who tells me you can muliply letters by numbers is nuts. "Green times banana = crocodile".

Sure.

The only thing dumber is "music is math".

Everything is a language.

Everything is a feeling.
Language, like emotion, is an abstraction of that feeling; the description of the moment after the moment has passed.
This the old mythos/logos war, that only logos fights. Mythos feels too good to bother ;)

Loadmaster		2012-11-01 03:21:25 PM

Anyone who does not comprehend mathematics is not fully human.

LegacyDL		2012-11-01 03:22:37 PM

I like Science, yet I don't like Math. I don't understand why that's the case seeing as how they are both interconnected in numerous areas.

I blame ugly math teacher teaching me integral calculus.

/And for some reason a lot of people find pre-calc harder than Calculus I