It's also a day without using anything he learned in art, or geography, or chemistry, or English literature, or history, or pretty much anything he studied in school after age 10. Why does math get singled out?
I always yearned to understand a practical reason to learn calculus. My teacher at college was a German woman that spoke English with a thick accent.
Her joy for the course seemed self-evident, but she failed to ever share a real-world reason or application for what we were trying to learn.
45 years later,I still haven’t used what I “learned”, or ever came to understand why we did.
I literally, 30 seconds ago, used sin^-1() to calculate the angle for a roof I need to make for my indoor greenhouse, so the asshole cats don't fall through the cheap plastic
You're literally using a device powered by electricity that extensively relies on an understanding, implementation and exploitation of sinusoidal maths.
You're also technically using them if you merely play games. Edit: You also use cos when making or viewing a jpg, so the author of the meme did in-fact use at least cos on that day.
I had a maths teacher who upon being asked, whats the point in maths? Or whenever he heard I'm not going to use this in the rest of my life! Would break into a ten minute speech.
You have to study maths because what it is at it's core is just doing the same thing over and over again with slight variations. -more waffle I can't remember- and after school you will go off to some job where you do the same thing over and over again where you will spend the next 60 years of your life. And then you die.