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math is hard :(
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Mike Works
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DonasaurusRex
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anyway dont be too hard on yourself man. Math is a unique beast. The one misconception alot of people have is, if you can do one math problem you can do em all. On the contrary i have found that doing as many problems as possible is the way to go. If you are having problems with math do a problem and go as far as you can then ask your professor "what should I understand about the problem to this point". Alot of people just watch their professors do these problems in class and if they understand they say oh ok i get it. But math is like basketball, understanding how to shoot a jump shot has nothing with being able to reliably make a jump shot thats all practice. You need to develop the skill along with the understanding.
The best questions to ask a professor are "what is this problem asking" , "what should i recognize about this problem", and "how do i show mathematically what i understand". If your professor cant break that down to you then maybe you should find one that can, they are out there! I've had my share of dickhead introverted prof's that expect you to understand what they take for granted, and i've had professors that can put it all into plain words.
What math are you currently studying
anyway dont be too hard on yourself man. Math is a unique beast. The one misconception alot of people have is, if you can do one math problem you can do em all. On the contrary i have found that doing as many problems as possible is the way to go. If you are having problems with math do a problem and go as far as you can then ask your professor "what should I understand about the problem to this point". Alot of people just watch their professors do these problems in class and if they understand they say oh ok i get it. But math is like basketball, understanding how to shoot a jump shot has nothing with being able to reliably make a jump shot thats all practice. You need to develop the skill along with the understanding.
The best questions to ask a professor are "what is this problem asking" , "what should i recognize about this problem", and "how do i show mathematically what i understand". If your professor cant break that down to you then maybe you should find one that can, they are out there! I've had my share of dickhead introverted prof's that expect you to understand what they take for granted, and i've had professors that can put it all into plain words.
What math are you currently studying
Ecrofirt said:My Calculus 3 class is terrible.
I've bombed two tests in a row, and I'm normally an A student in math class
I've been studying my ass off for this class to no avail.
same happaned to me when i took it. i got a C- and i dont even know how...i took it.
my first test i literally got a 2 out of a 100. how is that even possible? its not...but i did it.
didnt help that it was at 830am and instead of doing examples we would spend our whole time just trying to keep up with the professor as he furiously wrote out the proofs.
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Hah, same shit happened with me and differential equations. I'm a math ace but there were a lot of concepts I just could not wrap my head around. Ah well fuck it, I passed and I don't need it now!
I did a 2nd year paper, Tech Maths, and I slept through lectures and understood absolutely nothing. But for some reason the exam was open-book so I just printed out all these model questions and answers, and it just turned into a copying exericise, changing the numbers around. Got a B+.
effzee said:
Yea, for us it's a 9:00 class, and most of the time is spent trying to keep up with him as he keeps putting notes on the overhead while talking about something else. It becomes a matter of listening or writing as you can't do both.
I'm really not a fan of his teaching style. He'll put those notes up and remove them before half of the class is finished writing them. He fly through his lecture while the notes are up. And is this normal of a math teacher? I haven't had this experience before: He'll assign us 20-30 homework problems per night, and then never go over them in class. The 8 of us in class all think it's pretty terrible, as it's leaving us all hanging if we don't know how to do something.
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I'm in a complex analysis class now (which is essentially all the math you've ever learned from elementary school to Calc III restructured in the complex number system). It's really abstract, I need to study a lot this weekend 
Other than that though, I love math. I used to participate in math contests and such, and still would if I had the time to do so.
Other than that though, I love math. I used to participate in math contests and such, and still would if I had the time to do so.
I really can't say I've ever had an enjoyable math course, and I don't know whether it's even possible to adequately teach math properly in most universities or colleges. Hard as it is, I do enjoy math, but after years of running up against brick walls of math classes and paying the price for it, it's something I'm leaving primarily as a hobby and avoiding any extraneous courses on it.
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