Beneath the Wraps

I've turned in the math assignment for this week and have taken the assessment.   One more week and assessment to go .   This is how I truly understand math: If Bob is waiting for his bus at the corner of Lupis and Vine on a Tuesday and he is eating Strawberry ice cream, but not quickly, and his melted ice cream is dripping onto the sidewalk before the bus comes;   meanwhile, three cars have passed and none have bothered to offer Bob a ride, how far is the sun?   If Lisa has agreed to babysit for Mrs. Brown, and walk the dog for Mrs. Green and water plants for Mrs. Plumb, what color is Lisa's shirt?   If Hector collects rocks and balloons and gives one balloon to Kathy for nine seashells, what day of the week is it? I do like my instructor.   I wish I had just one ounce of her passion.   But I don't.   It's math.   I've found some videos that have been helpful.   Others are . . . what ??????   I came across one v...

If x   times 3 = 3x and you subtract 12 = y over 3x squared, what are y and x?   We will never know.   Apparently it doesn't matter. Order of operation matters. Order of operations is a way of thinking logically - so says the mathematician.   Do you know how boring you sound?   Only math nerds understand the numbers game and the results of getting there - though most of the problems are never completely finished - they are written down as far as they can go.   So an acceptable answer could look like this: 4x+3q+8-7n=y^12   What?????   If we don't ever know what q or y or the rest of the letters are - what's the point???   Roland says it's to learn logic.   I don't learn logic!   I am too dang frustrated to be logical.   I want to scream, swear, pull out my hair, and hurt whoever it is that came up with x(3-6)+[6*(n-q)4]-12x in the first place. Give me a break!   I was not put on this planet to answer mixed up number/l...