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Do you suck at math?

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Me fail statistics? That's unprobable!





Seriously, I was only 2 classes short of an Applied Math second major when getting my BS in Computer Science. Some math classes were work, some were fun or at least interesting.
 
I used to hate it but now after getting to be friends with the beast I actually enjoy it.
I f you study an engineering subject like me (Media broadcasting) you find you have to bury the hatchet, pronto!
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: coldcut
I have always been a bad math student, never good at it. I'm in trig right now and it's no fun. Math is a subject I cannot grasp the concept.

Anyone else suck at math?
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I'm good at math (taken quite a few PhD level math classes). But once you get to that level math is a completely different beast.

You said exactly what my wife said while she was in highschool - word for word. She went to college and avoided math for a few years. Then she finally had to take math to graduate and got A+'s on all of her math related courses. She did well enough to have her professors suggest she should switch majors. What happened? She was truthfully never bad at math. But she had one teacher that was a very bad teacher in grade school. She got lost on one subject and asked the teacher for help and the teacher said "if you didn't get it the first time, I'm not repeating it". So she missed a vital part of math. Well math just builds and builds. Without that vital part she could never understand any of the math that followed. She just got further and further behind eventually hating math with a passion (she plays Jimmy Buffet's song Math Sucks all the time). Well after a few years off and starting math in college, she got to have a professor that was good and filled the very few missing pieces that her elementary teacher failed to let her learn. Suddenly everything made sence and she was great at math.

Does that sound familiar to you?
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Sure does... yours truly had exactly the same problem. In my case it was not improved by the fact that the first math prof in college sucked as well and I flunked the course. Now I am repeating the course with a different, highly recommended prof and she is just great! I am actually having fun solving her problems... if I can get myself to start working on them in the first place 😉
 
I like math, and I like girls than understand math, and I like girls that don't understand math, espically the rich ones. 😀

But my spelling is teh suck.
 
the stories about bad teachers should serve as a good reminder as to why parents should be actively involved in their child's education... the same thing probably would have happened to me if my mom didn't force me to do math over my summer breaks.
 
Yeah I'm not a math master, either. I'm majoring in English and Speech-Communications, so I don't exactly fit into the AT crowd in terms of academic skill. I was, however, able to pass calculus (with a D), physics (B), and statistics (C) in college.
 
3rd nineweeks i had a 100 average in trig
got the highest average award, blew away advanced algebra with a 97

then in my spanish class, i fale every quizz she gives me, bizzare aint it?
 
Math owns me. God help me if I ever have to do math without Excel or a calculator.

I had some bad teachers in High School. If I could do math, I'd be an astronomer.
 
I suck at math, lucky I just finished my last math class (for this degree). It seems like 95% of the math you learn will never benifit you in the real world, But of course that comes from someone who doesnt enjoy math..

Luden.
 
Yes, I suck at math. I worked my ass off this past semester in Cal 1 and still came out wit a C...that is a victory for me. I still have Cal 2 and Stat to go. 🙁
 
then in my spanish class, i fale every quizz she gives me, bizzare aint it?
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Did you have trouble in English by any chance?😉

Anyways, Once you get onto higher forms of math (at the end of clac3, which is calc 2 in the semester system, ie infinite sums) math becomes less number oriented. It is not that you no longer deal with numbers, but everything now revolves around equations and finite/infinite solutions and proofs. Conclusion: Calc is a silent killer for the GPA😉 The thing that is great about upper level math is that you do not need to practice as much as you did while you were in high school (that is if you did practice).
 
i dont buy the bad teachers stuff.

The teacher just teaches by doing the examples in the books and showing you why its done this way. the teacher is there if you have any questions, but learning it, u gotta do it yourself. dont depend on the teacher to explain the way you do the problem, ask your self how to do the problem based on the examples.

for most math classes, you just gotta learn it yourself from the book and practice, there can be only so many variatons of a problem, if you know all forms of the problem, then the test shouldnt be too difficult.
 
I agree that the student definately needs to step up and study hard by thinking for himself and asking the right questions.

ON THE OTHER HAND, you could have a BAD math teacher who doesn't do ANY example problems.

If the teacher does do ANY problems, it's maybe one and only the simplest problem ever and therefore is useless in showing you any of the methods you need to learn.

Finally, the teacher will probably do the problem when there's only 2 mins left in the lecture when he or she wasted the rest of the class talking about impractical theories, lol.

Haha lets just say I've had my shares of bad and GOOD math teachers.

 
Oooh yeah...

In Grade 8 for half of the year my math teacher inexplicably took holiday leave and we had some fresh out of university underpaid schmuck teaching us. After a week into his teaching, he just stopped trying. Math class was thereon a course to play cards in and socialize. Absolutely nothing done.

Then Grade 9 my math teacher didn't teach anything. The whole course was sort of like home schooling in a class room. No lectures. He assigned every single worksheet and textbook page for marks. You ask him a question and he'd fly through it at lightspeed and get angry when you didn't understand his explanation.

Now in Grade 10 I'm in High School and therefore expected to know all of this stuff...and I don't. My mark is 51% and I got my final exam coming up...which I have my doubts of my passing.

I admit my effort in Grade 8, 9, 10 Math was minimal, which has only compounded my bad teacher problem...and now I'm so far behind I've just enrolled in idiot Grade 11 math and given up.
 
I was in the accelerated math program for the longest time and for the most part did well. However last year and this year in HS I had to struggle to get a C (or luckily a B). Struggling is no way to learn and accel in school. Therefore I switched math classes to the regular math class and I haven't looked back. First of all, the teacher is nice and she explains everything to us and follows it up with plenty of examples. I am cruising along with a 105% in the class and actually enjoy math 😉
 
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