Math = bad to good

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21 Oct 2013, 10:48 am

The majority of my life in mathematics has sucked, to say the least. But suddenly this year, I'm just as good in Algebra II as I am in my best classes. Has anyone else experienced this? And is there a simple explanation I'm not seeing?

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21 Oct 2013, 10:51 am

ShadowRanger720 wrote:

You had best hope that math remains a forte. In our brave new world of open borders and free trade, about the only hope young people, whether aspie or NT, have is to become STEM majors.

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21 Oct 2013, 4:24 pm

Am I the only Aspie who actually enjoys and is good at math?

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21 Oct 2013, 5:10 pm

Sedentarian wrote:

Am I the only Aspie who actually enjoys and is good at math?

I personally neither like nor dislike math. It just used to confuse me is all

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21 Oct 2013, 9:38 pm

I failed calculus twice, but on the third try figured out how to 'translate' my textbook and the lectures into a form that I could understand. After that, I sailed though the remaining 4-5 classes with little trouble. Differential equations were actually kind of fun (very useful in practical ways). And then, I took Real Analysis and my brain melted again, and I had to do that 'translating' process.

The annoying part was that tutors didn't help at all; I had to work it out completely on my own.

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22 Oct 2013, 3:25 am

This is exactly what happened to me. I went from being terrible from kindergarten through high school, and now I'm getting straight A's in Algebra. I guess something "clicked" and now I get it faster.

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22 Oct 2013, 10:00 am

My Math school story:
1st-5th grades: Ds-Cs
6th-8th grades: from Fs to Bs
9th grade: from Es to Cs
10th grade: from Fs to Cs
11th grade: from Cs to As

No explanation for that comes to my mind :lol:

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22 Oct 2013, 12:21 pm

The fundamental problem with math in America is that they push students to learn it at a fixed pace. Fall behind and you are considered "stupid" at math. It's a common story I hear where a parent takes a kid bad at math, gets them into a class (or tutor) who helps them grasp the subject, and once they have that grasp, they excel.

Kids can get frustrated very easy. When schools don't work with a kid to get them into the subject matter, the kid tunes out and the school regulates that kid to the trash heap.

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23 Oct 2013, 2:49 pm

I had a similar story, but that's because elementary school asked for arithmetics, which I'm not very good at. But once they allowed calculators, like for algebra, I became very good, sometime to the point of perfect scores!

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29 Oct 2013, 8:20 pm

ShadowRanger720 wrote:

good in Algebra II

What kind of math does that involve in your school system?

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

but on the third try figured out how to 'translate' my textbook and the lectures into a form that I could understand.

Can you describe this translation process?

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:

The annoying part was that tutors didn't help at all; I had to work it out completely on my own.

Well they tend to be learning style bigots..

zer0netgain wrote:

The fundamental problem with math in America is that they push students to learn it at a fixed pace.

Any school system that won't do that?

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11 Nov 2013, 2:35 am

Keyman wrote:

ShadowRanger720 wrote:

good in Algebra II

What kind of math does that involve in your school system?

Algebra II is referred to in my college as Intermidiate Algebra or MTH 95.

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11 Nov 2013, 9:53 pm

Doesn't tell me much

Polynom division, derives, differential equations, geometry etc.. tells me more

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