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What's the highest level of Math you use regularly?

Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:03 pm
Posted by Bubb
Member since Mar 2010
3894 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:03 pm
Just curious. Extra points if you can add your position or industry to explain why.

I'm just wondering how many people in the population actually use what they are being taught in school.
Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
9828 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:05 pm to
Trig and geometry daily.
Posted by DaBeerz
Member since Sep 2004
16924 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:05 pm to
Multiplication and division, so elementary. Had to take calculus though
Posted by Mr Roboto
Rural Mississippi
Member since Jan 2023
1108 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:06 pm to
Fractions
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Extra points if you can add your position or industry to explain

Mechanical work
Posted by SOLA
There
Member since Mar 2014
3326 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:06 pm to
Business math. I’m not sure what level that was. Algebra and that stuff was worthless
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Posted by Evil Little Thing
Member since Jul 2013
11224 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:07 pm to
Basic algebra
Posted by adamau
Member since Oct 2020
3492 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:07 pm to
Posted by gaetti15
AK
Member since Apr 2013
13365 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:08 pm to
calc 3.

mathematical statistician
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 10:10 pm
Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
976 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:08 pm to
I use my calculator app or AI to solve my math problems. I have come across only a handful examples of when I NEEDED math outside of basic arithmetic.

Cybersecurity
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Where I Am
Member since Nov 2011
2480 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:08 pm to
Basic math. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages etc..

Business Development in all segments of construction except single family residential.
Posted by 2Dueces
Hell
Member since Dec 2018
186 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:09 pm to
I use damn near everything I was taught in school.

I work for a company that makes fuel cell bladders for military aircraft.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
27928 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:12 pm to
I constantly use all sorts of math to solve shop problems.
I've got a 16 year old kid that helps me sometimes. I'm trying to teach him how to use a tape measure.
He's in the 11th grade. It's sad.
If he learns that, I'll start teaching him to convert fractions to decimals.
He's a great kid though and doesn't mind working.
He just never had a Dad around to make sure he was learning the things that he will need later.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 10:40 pm
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15570 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:13 pm to
Algebra II and Geometry. I teach both subjects.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
38970 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:16 pm to
I use Mathcad Prime for math…wish I had that back in college.
Posted by UltimaParadox
Huntsville
Member since Nov 2008
40848 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:16 pm to
Linear algebra often, every now and then differential equations , mostly just Laplace transforms. Matlab helps.

EE
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
62945 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:21 pm to
4th grade. And if that's a clue, 5th grade is going to really test my chops.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31491 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:21 pm to
Counting aloud on my fingers or while pointing to days on a calendar. I don’t trust head-arithmetic or even date-calculation sites and apps.

Lawyer.

I will use a fancy interest calculator or brave the sum function in Excel.

I think that’s about the sum of it. My dad is a PhD polymer chemist. Skips a generation, I hear. He’s a step function ahead of me in maths.

Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31491 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:23 pm to
quote:

mostly just Laplace transforms. Matlab helps.


I stumbled upon a methlab in LaPlace once. Those guys knew enough algebra to do basic chemistry.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 10:24 pm
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
12487 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:24 pm to
The math is fairly basic but we do some really in-depth statistical analysis. I work in energy finance and we have monstrous data sets we need to sift through so we have some really good analysts that crank them out.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
33448 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 10:24 pm to
I teach high school math.

Not much above algebra 2 level.
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