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What is math?
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How would you describe math to people who find math not interesting? How can you tell them that what you are doing is important?
Top Comment: Baby dont hurt me
How to Love Math?
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I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but I am doing a Masters in Data Science, and oh man, the math classes in my program are so soul crushing hard for me, as my undergrad is more business related and I have not touched Math ever since high school (because I absolutely hate math, and I am also not very good as I remembered when I began my Masters i don't even know what the sigma sign is)
So how can I develop a love for this subject? I mean not only regular math but all other math disciplines involving in this major including Statistics, Probabilities, Linear Algebra, Calculus, ....cuz I feel like every single day my soul is being dragged through sharp glasses
Top Comment: I am not sure you can force yourself to love anything. I love math because I do. To quote a phrase I used to hear as a student, "Math will always be my mistress".
Why do I suck at maths
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Like I’m not dumb, I get good grades on other subjects such as science, humanities, english etc. But when it comes to maths I just can’t do it. I can understand the concept of things such as functions, combinations, permutations but if it comes to a slightly complicated problem that is related to the thing that I just learnt, I just can’t do it, get frustrated and give up. Is it something other people struggle with too or am I just stupid??
Top Comment: Typically when you look deeper into “math brains” or people who seem to have natural talent you find they actually have just done a lot of math. Like don’t forget theres people who as kids found math fun and did all the extra problems in the book and asked for workbooks for Christmas. They exist and degrees of them exist everywhere. So i would take a growth mindset and just put in more work doing problems.
Why do I struggle so much with math?
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Please bear with me, but ever since I was a kid, I’ve always struggled with math. I feel like I lack the basic foundation and just managed to move on until I graduated high school.
I’ve failed one of my math classes throughout high school. I’ve always asked a question, went to tutoring after school, and spent time learning from YT as well. It just sucks wanting to pursue a career but having so much difficulty in the main subject you need the most.
Top Comment: My advice is to go back to the beginning of math and learn it all again at a slower pace. Just forget all your past grievances and struggles and start fresh, teaching yourself at your own speed with some online aid like Khan Academy or one of the many math youtube channels. One of the things I've noticed about math is that even the smallest gaps in understanding can eventually add up and hold you back. If your accumulated math knowledge looks like swiss cheese, it can really hinder your progress in the more advanced subjects. Also, you may not realize these holes are there until you go back and review everything.
Was ‘New Math’ as bad as society portrays it?
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I’ve read the Wikipedia article on it and it says it’s been deemed one of the biggest educational failures of the 20th century.
Was New Math really doomed to fail because it was too hard for kids to comprehend, or was it more that it was too hard for teachers and parents to come to terms with?
Top Comment: I was taught “new math” in grade school in the sixties. I found it totally inspiring and it gave me a lifelong love of math. I still think of place value with bundles of pencils and I love set theory which was the beginning of every year. I’m sure my experience is not typical, I later ended up getting a master’s in math and taught for 24 years at a community college. I understand from my teaching experience that most students don’t appreciate the level of abstraction that was an integral part of new math.