Always hated algebra, but I had to take trig for a technical math class required for my degree. I was apprehensive, but wound up loving trig and getting the only A in math I had earned since 6th grade or so.
Always hated algebra, but I had to take trig for a technical math class required for my degree. I was apprehensive, but wound up loving trig and getting the only A in math I had earned since 6th grade or so.
My biggest mistakes were arithmetic mistakes. I was having so much fun doing the algebra, etc., that I didn't always pay close attention to the arithmetic part. Trig was fun when I got a good instructor. I didn't like geometry because it was so repetitive. My teacher would do one or two slightly different proofs and then send us home to twenty more of the same type for homework. I thought it was stupid so I wouldn't do them. Guess who got to go to summer school? I did all of them in 2 1/2 weeks - I can be reasoned with...sort of. Especially if the head of the math department knows your mother from church.
Yes! I am dyslexic with numbers (likely a bit dyslexic with letters too, but had the kind of brain that could memorize constants like spelling, new words can throw me...). Calculators are an effing godsend. I can understand the theory and process, but ask me to add 2+2 and I am totally chuffed when I get it right.
I never went to summer school but got in trouble when my algebra teacher, Mr. Pottorf, caught me making cartoons of him in class and handing them off to my friends. Nothing bad, just a decent likeness of his roman nose and him spouting apparent nonsense, LOL.
My best friend and I sketched most of the people in my AP algebra class (the backs of their heads). That was the end of being in AP math classes. I don't know what possessed me to sit in class and do that! Proves I was your average stupid high school kid I guess.
Calculators hadn't taken over yet. I was afraid I'd forget how to do the math myself if I used a calculator. A valid worry - I have forgotten how to do a lot of it but I sure can enter formulas into a scientific calculator! Or Excel.
My Achille's heel is, drum roll please, checking accounts. I don't remember how many of them I've blown up but it is ALL OF THEM! I took a high-school level accounting class and it was a nightmare. I worked harder in that one than any other class ever. I got an A but it was sheer. Living. Hell.
Always hated algebra, but I had to take trig for a technical math class required for my degree. I was apprehensive, but wound up loving trig and getting the only A in math I had earned since 6th grade or so.
Of course, having a calculator helped, LOL.
My biggest mistakes were arithmetic mistakes. I was having so much fun doing the algebra, etc., that I didn't always pay close attention to the arithmetic part. Trig was fun when I got a good instructor. I didn't like geometry because it was so repetitive. My teacher would do one or two slightly different proofs and then send us home to twenty more of the same type for homework. I thought it was stupid so I wouldn't do them. Guess who got to go to summer school? I did all of them in 2 1/2 weeks - I can be reasoned with...sort of. Especially if the head of the math department knows your mother from church.
Yes! I am dyslexic with numbers (likely a bit dyslexic with letters too, but had the kind of brain that could memorize constants like spelling, new words can throw me...). Calculators are an effing godsend. I can understand the theory and process, but ask me to add 2+2 and I am totally chuffed when I get it right.
I never went to summer school but got in trouble when my algebra teacher, Mr. Pottorf, caught me making cartoons of him in class and handing them off to my friends. Nothing bad, just a decent likeness of his roman nose and him spouting apparent nonsense, LOL.
My best friend and I sketched most of the people in my AP algebra class (the backs of their heads). That was the end of being in AP math classes. I don't know what possessed me to sit in class and do that! Proves I was your average stupid high school kid I guess.
Calculators hadn't taken over yet. I was afraid I'd forget how to do the math myself if I used a calculator. A valid worry - I have forgotten how to do a lot of it but I sure can enter formulas into a scientific calculator! Or Excel.
My Achille's heel is, drum roll please, checking accounts. I don't remember how many of them I've blown up but it is ALL OF THEM! I took a high-school level accounting class and it was a nightmare. I worked harder in that one than any other class ever. I got an A but it was sheer. Living. Hell.
I had to pass a basic accounting class for my degree.
It was a nightmare, I have no aptitude for it. I just kept muttering, "Cs get degrees".
High five!!! I felt so stupid!! Not used to that.at all!
BTW - I have no idea what that link is.