Why did or didn’t you like Math at school?

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2. Why did or didn’t you like Math at school?

3. What’s the difference between a fraction and a decimal?

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6. Are girls or boys better at Math?

7. Do you think Math is a waste of time now, with all the computers around?

8. Why do people call Math a language? What features of a language does it have?

9. Why is mental arithmetic important? Where do we use it?

10. How can you improve mental arithmetic? Have you learned a times table at school?

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12. Are there times when two plus two equals five?

13. What happens if you don’t round these numbers? 2.25+2.26=?

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15. In Jurassic Park (1993) a chaos theorist Ian Malcolm explains the gist of it:

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19. Prediction Horizon - a length of time beyond which we can no longer accurately forecast something.

20. What can affect the Prediction Horizon?

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22. Up until 2008 most computers were using the IEEE 754-1985 calculation standard

23. IEEE 754-1985 could work with 16 decimals Current 754-2008 generally handles up to 32 decimals

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26. How is it possible to calculate the probabilities?

27. Why do we need to calculate them?

28. Quantum computers

29. Created from probability particles called qu-bits, quantum computers aim at computing probabilities, which linear computers

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32. Banking

33. Purchase Behavior

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35. Control Horizon is the length of time which we need to beneficially alter the predicted future

36. What is Alertness?

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38. Do you often think about what to do if things don’t go as planned?