paigethelaw:

the1janitor:

madlori:

I bet you did.

Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting?  Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks?  Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance?  Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time?  Did you encounter anything on sale?  Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?

There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking.  Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.

Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula.  They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.

So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.

I reblogged this with a similar response a while back. This one is more eloquent than my response so I will share it with you all ^_^

If all that is algebra, why didn’t my teacher say it like that huh? I had the worst math teachers in the world, I swear.

Thats public schools for you.

I approached our creator Jeff Davis, and asked if we could make Lydia the smartest girl in school.

onlytrippystuff:

I will print and use this from now on…

Doctor Who Quotes: Mickey Smith

godlaughsatmyplans:

#this god damn scene can fuck off  

Mom: do you have your phone?
Me: yeah.
Mom: should we do a selfie with those losers behind us?

allthefandomfeelings:

moonflowerlights:

jaredpadaleckis:

#voldemort is near

#YER THE VESSEL OF LUCIFER SAMMY

i just chOKED

We are about to get in the car to go to the park and my mom stops to take a pic of her tree. She’s so cute omg.

It [having a companion] makes the show richer, if it was just the Doctor, he’d have no one to talk to. Which I think would make quite quiet TV. - BBC America Special, The Companions