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Who Hates Math?

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Galaxy Freeze

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I know I hate it. I suck at it, and it seems like nothing but constant frustration. Sometimes, I get so overwhelmed, confused, and frustrated that I have screamed and cried while stuck on a problem...I can literally feel myself burn up when I get stuck on a problem. :mad:

Math class is awful, I always dread it, at least my two friends sit near me, they're good at it, but they don't help me that much. I did have a very good math teacher in junior high, but that's about it. Now that I don't have her anymore, I'm just back to the misery again...Ugh.

Does anyone else get frustrated with math like this? If not, what subject frustrates you? (If there is one)
 
I like math, although I haven't taken anything more advanced than precalculus. Also, I'm going to major in computer science. I will say it doesn't always come to me naturally and I have to be tutored sometimes.
 
Galaxy Freeze said:
I know I hate it. I suck at it, and it seems like nothing but constant frustration. Sometimes, I get so overwhelmed, confused, and frustrated that I have screamed and cried while stuck on a problem...I can literally feel myself burn up when I get stuck on a problem. :mad:

Math class is awful, I always dread it, at least my two friends sit near me, they're good at it, but they don't help me that much. I did have a very good math teacher in junior high, but that's about it. Now that I don't have her anymore, I'm just back to the misery again...Ugh.

Does anyone else get frustrated with math like this? If not, what subject frustrates you? (If there is one)
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For electronics I need to use very large decimal numbers in order to compute fractions. Such as seconds broken down to milliseconds and then to microseconds. Rather than turn to maths books, I used the internet to search for whatever information I needed and one friend bought me a calculator. So, to give an example, if there are 1000 milliseconds in one second, I need to be able to understand that, say, 0.5 of a second is actually 500 milliseconds. And 0.05 would be 50 milliseconds and so on. I didn't use text books but just revised basic decimals or simply stayed up late at night trying to figure it all out. It certainly wasn't easy and even now I sometimes get bogged down. Other than that, I need basic division, multiplication and sums. At this stage I don't really need calculus so I just specialise in problem areas. What I do know I guess I know fairly well but I don't yet have a functional capacity in maths as I don't study it alone as a subject.
 
Well, I have just completed a year of Maths Methods at school, the most advanced maths our school offers. We did calculus, circular functions (sin, cos and tan), exponential graphs, logarithms, cubics, quartics, hyperbolas (y=1/x), probability and a bunch of other stuff. I found it really interesting, but I was hardly gifted at it. I could do most of the predictable problems, but the ones with solutions that were a bit harder to see were a lot of hit and miss.

I really have more of a linguistic brain, and it's in that field where I can analyse everything technically and fully. It's my obsession.

What I found with Maths, and History too, was that the content was really fascinating to learn about and discuss, but then you're expected to retain EVERYTHING. It's not enough just to have it explained why sin(x)=cos(x-pi) - probably haven't remembered that one correctly - or how the Chinese Communist Party came to an unlikely victory in the civil war with the unintended aid of the Japanese invasion, and then go "oh, that makes sense" and carry on with your life. You're expected to get a long maths question exactly perfect. I hate it when you've come to the end of a long bit of working out, and you realise that things don't fit (for example, how can the weight of a infant chimpanzee be -0.17 kilograms?) You know you've made a mistake, but it takes forever to fossick for it and find it.

In history, I hated having to learn all the dates and death toll figures (which were often glossed over quite callously in our lessons - "oh yeah, so about 17 million people died, give or take a few." Which few? Imagine if it was the people on this site. "Oh yeah, I think Galaxy Freeze died, and maybe kimical, and I'm not sure if total-recoil is still alive, but who cares."
I don't know, something about it just unnerves me.
 
Math repulses me. I've never been good at it(except arithemtic) and I can never retain anything in that subject for very long. I never pay attention in there, and its hard too when it is uninteresting to me. I have usually made a C or D in math.
 
I hate math. I have come to the conclusion that I must have discalculia because I can't figure out the simplest mathematical problems to save my life.
 
I've done a computer science degree ... you have to take maths. They make you do logic maths ... which is even more horrible than regular maths. Any good uni will give you a solid foundation in maths because the way of thinking for maths is exactly the same for computer programming. And yes you still have to take it when you do only multimedia. There is a large amount of programming and maths that goes into things like 3D animation for example.

Maths is my worst subject. I managed to pass my engineering maths (was going to a metallurgist until I gave that up due to work related issues earlier this year ... long story) and I passed with credits (about 65-75% pass rate) though I worked my butt off and got a lot of help.

I'm not much of a maths person because I think I have a wiring issue in my brain. I can actually work out things like differential equations but there is something lost in translation between my head and my hand when I go to write it down. I have the same problem with computer programming though I can write short bits of code if I'm really pushed. I also can get confused because I see many ways to do something. My maths teacher said there is only one right way to do a maths problem. I said "I have so many swirling in my head they are getting confused and I don't know which one to pick". I asked him for a set of rules to follow and he said he can't really give that because every problem is different. I guess if I had a check list I could get it better but I don't.

in short ... maths sucks. It sucks the big round hairy ones. but alas I would advise anyone thinking of going to uni, no matter what they do, get your maths in good order because you will be surprised when it comes up and where.
 
I never liked maths...
And I say maths because I was brought up to believe it is the short form of a plural or, blanket term, encompassing all mathematics, from elementary arithmetic to the mathematical sciences.

I actually appreciate maths for the fact that everyday living incorporates more equations and computations than I can fathom and that on some level I am involved with it constantly despite that I claim to be **** at it. Things like ratio, distance, circumference, depth, quantity, velocity, inertia, and solidity for instance… these are all maths and I deal in them everyday without conscious thought, using the worlds most powerful computer, the brain.

So in closing I do not hate maths, I dislike the way it was taught me and the level of difficulty I prescribed to it which led me to choose not to like it, which in turn allowed me to miss out on so much without the ability to properly apply it.

Mmmm, I guess my thought then would be, don't hate maths, hate that something that is confusing only seems to get more difficult the more you learn about it, until one day your trying to teach it to your children and it all comes back to you ; ]
 
Dragon's Tooth said:
"I have so many swirling in my head they are getting confused and I don't know which one to pick"
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I had the exact same experience. I just saw so many possibilities, and often I'd start trying the right method, but overlook something and make a mistake, and then think that I'd gone down the wrong path, when really there was just a tiny thing I'd missed.
 
Yes I hate math. I can do it, but it's not easy and I tend to make mistakes, not with my method, just with what I write down. I had a support teacher for math at school, she sat with me and helped :)
 
I'm with you Galaxy Freeze. I'm terrible with math, its a giant mass of nonsense symbols with nonsense meanings.

And to make it worse the psychologist that diagnosed me with both of my Asperger's diagnoses said that my Asperger's says I should be great with math.

What a myth.
 
Math was my least favorite subject but I did like geometry as it was applied to things I could see. I enjoyed it only if I could apply it to
actual design like building speakers and furniture as the numbers affected the sound quality and frequencies the cabinet would amplify.
My favorite subjects in order are: Science, English, History, Math
 
I've always hated math too. My mom tried to teach me algebra when I was a younger teen and it was a NIGHTMARE. After she diagnosed me with Asperger's and told me that Temple Grandin recommends skipping algebra for some autistics, everything got better. I started doing basic geometry instead and even though I didn't get very far in the book, it was easier and I enjoyed it much more.
 
God must have a sense of humor because I work with numbers all day long and I am not good at math. Never was, probably never will be. It takes me forever to figure out even simple calculations. God bless the person who invented the calculator!

Logically it does not make sense that I am so poor at math and yet extremely proficient in English. English is ten times more difficult than math. Math has logic to it. English is a hodgepodge of contradicting rules. I have no idea what my reading level is but it must be sky-high. Math--somewhere around 3rd grade. But here I am working with numbers and not words. They seem to think I do a pretty good job at it because they keep giving me more to do.
 
Math is my favorite (well math and my meteorology classes...but those are mostly just math anyway). I'm absolutely awful at anything that involves writing. I can derive a super complex meteorology equation in my sleep, but ask me to write about it, and I can't do it.
 
I'm okay at maths in terms of skill, but i absolutely loath having to do it. My maths exams are always my worst, being in the 80% range. Certain areas, i.e. area, pi, i'm quite good at and can handle, but anything else i hate and don't try hard at all. Personally, I'm more of an english person.
 
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