Poll: HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

[Caligulove]

liked it at first... then it got boring and easy... didnt feel like I was learning the rest of that quarter

 

[Iron Lightning]

I personally found algebra far too simple to be interesting, calculus was alright though.

Don't be a cocky dick.

I'm always bored and tired as fuck, so I don't do to well. The one semester that I actually tried I got a low A, so you could try my approach. Most people can actually do it, it's just that most peoples attention span (me included) is that of a goldfish.

Well you ought not to be so easily offended by people with (as you say) abnormal attention spans. I agree with you on your point that it's wise to try to do well. Of course, seeing as how the majority of people in this thread have no love of mathematics, I might venture that the true failing here is in the quality of public education and not in any personal defects. If math was taught in a more interesting fashion then people would be more interested in it.

 

[SimuLord]

Under normal circumstances I'd give a speech about the progression of math through high school and college.

But I've seen the school threads you've made on this forum, so for you my advice is "either get an attitude adjustment and a work ethic or else learn how to use a mop for when you're working as a McJanitor because you wasted your chance to become an educated, intelligent, functioning member of society."

I get it. You're 14. You're reaching that age where you recoil instinctively from a challenge and want things to be as easy as they were when you were a little kid (and I suspect you're in dummy classes if you're 14 and just now discovering algebra, something normal kids get in middle school). You thought the pubes and dick growth was all fun and games? Nope. Sign of adulthood and with it comes acting like a real man, not the kind of "man" that beer commercials and hip-hop videos claim is what manhood is.

tl;dr version for our illiterate friend here: Time to man up.

 

[ottenni]

Oh dear god maths.
I really just cannot do maths, keep it away from me. It burns i say! It burnsssssssss!

 

[dfphetteplace]

I was good at math until 6th grade. What happened in 6th grade? Well, at the end of the year I was told I failed the class, with an 86%. Wait, what? The teacher said she felt I could have done better, and just didn't try. Now shouldn't that show that I was GOOD at math? I didn't try and still passed with a B? And never mind the fact that I missed a ton of school since my father feel ill in October and then died later that year. So I had to repeat the same class the next year. Well, since I already knew it all, I just went through to book at the beginning of the year and did it all, and slacked off the rest of the year. After that, I sucked at math because I forgot to do all the Algebra I had learned. So when high school came, I did the bare minimum for math since I had hated it so much. Now I am terrible without a calculator. And anyone who tells you you don't need algebra is lying. I have to use it every day at work.

where do you work

I'm a Firefighter/Emergency Medical Specialist. I have to use algebra in figuring out friction loss in hose lines and drip rates/ bolus infusions for patient medications. It is used quite frequently in emergency services. I wish I would have worked harder at it in school. On the plus side, I'm usually just teaching other guys to do it on the fire dept. since I don't usually run the pumper and am one of the ones inside the fire.

 

[regallmighty]

math isnt really my thing, i find it really boreing and useless, how ever i am not going into a feild that i need a super high math

 

[TheProfessor134]

Basically if you know what to do and understand the material, its easy.. Er at least that's how I found it to be. It can be boring though if you're not someone who has a huge interest in math.

 

[Malyc]

Math is not my forte... I struggled with it, but i still had to pass, so i did.
Just try and remember the formulas, when to use them, and you should be fine.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

Finished with one of the highest grades in the class (or the highest, in some cases) all the way through elementary school, high school and college. Easy stuff.

 

[vallorn]

I'm utterly horrible at maths. Anything more than basic equations and I'm lost. I just can't think that abstractly.

Thankfully, nothing I ever want to do in life requires me to be in any contact with mathematics at all. When I leave school, I'm going to get one of those fancy programmable calculators that are so advanced that they don't let you use them in exams and bring that around with me, and that's maths sorted for the rest of my life.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ONE

they dont do everything they cant solve equations or diffrentiate/intergrate, but the REALLY expensive ones can draw graphs on the screen. (parametric ones as well)

 

[arcticphoenix95]

what was your overall experience in algebra and the other, harder math classes.

Yeah, Algebra was tough in 7th grade (that's Junior High for some people). If it is really getting to you, I suggest skipping high school, get a GED, and train as an apprentice for a labor type trade. The money your parents may have saved for college would probably be better spent supporting you until you become self sufficient in this 'trade work' you do, as opposed to drinking beer in a frat house.

im not the social type anyway

 

[Susan Arendt]

I loved algebra, actually. I like math because it's so beautiful. You can take this big huge heap of numbers and letters and, if you know what to do, arrive at a single correct answer. That's just beautiful, man.

If you're having trouble, though, don't be too proud to get a tutor. That's the only way I made it through geometry, which I never could quite wrap my head around. Calculus...dude, that was so beyond me even a tutor didn't help, so I ended up taking "Humanistic Calculus" in college, which was affectionately known as "Math for Poets." It was all theory, no actual calculation. Aced that, thankfully.

 

[rokkolpo]

Math:you gotta do, what you gotta do.
-Just try to take good notes and always do your homework. If you're not getting it, get some help. Don't focus on the thong of the hot chick in front of you. This is my advise. Use it wisely.

how could i not focus on that thong!?

it has little pink bunnies on it for crying out loud!

OT:i'm fighting my way through it, some things i get some things i don't.
as long as i pass the test.

 

[mip0]

There are no shortcuts, man. Practice makes perfect. Repetition is the mother of learning.
Just read the explanations and solve the problems. If you can't solve the problem - read the explanation again (rtfm)! If you don't understand the explanation - read the previous explanation.

 

[o_O]

I technically slept through it.

...Though I did ace it up to pre-calc level then didn't bother with taking more math, so I dunno if that really fits how the answer would be perceived. You need combo/multi options or something. >_>

As such, I didn't vote. Yay for me.