Snippets of conversation with my daughter about math:
Beau: If I pass my AP Calc test, I won't have to take Math 1050 in College
Me: That'll be awesome. That was not my favorite class.
Beau: Mom, did you take any other advanced math in college?
Me: I took Statistics
Beau: That doesn't count.
Me: Tell me that again after you've taken it online.
A little bit later:
Me: I took Statistics as my 2nd math class because I did not want to factor polynomials any more.
Beau: But those are easy! And factoring is used all the time! How can you hate it?
Me: Give me Chemistry math any day, I can do that. It makes logical sense and I can visualize it. X amount of this to mix with x amount of that to yield Y and Z in solids, liquids, or gasses. It makes sense. Factoring polynomials? Are you kidding? That's like trying to see music.
Beau: Mom. Chemistry makes no sense at all. The whole idea of these teeny particles that are constantly in motion, but while in a solid? That's confusing.
Me: But solids are constantly in motion.
Beau: Mom, your eyes are weird. That's why you have glasses.
