Poll: HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you hate algebra, and you think its useless it will be. If you pay attention and actually learn something, it will give you many more options later on when you get to the relevant stuff, like calculus. Even if you don't use it in your career, it is still nice to understand how the world works.
Note: Brains develop differently and at different times. Algebra is easy compared to calculus, but i thought it was hard, and I think calc is easy.
Note: Brains develop differently and at different times. Algebra is easy compared to calculus, but i thought it was hard, and I think calc is easy.
Algrebra is good cos its likely to be useful every now and then.
Calculus is what got me. I was so bored cos "theres no way this is applicable". Fast forward 5 years and I've started to apply it to my research...
Bugger... I wish I payed attention... I need to relearn it all...
Calculus is what got me. I was so bored cos "theres no way this is applicable". Fast forward 5 years and I've started to apply it to my research...
Bugger... I wish I payed attention... I need to relearn it all...
All the power to you if that worked for you. Granted, that method won't work with everyone.XinfiniteX said:
I was good at math until 6th grade. What happened in 6th grade? Well, at the end of the year I was told I failed the class, with an 86%. Wait, what? The teacher said she felt I could have done better, and just didn't try. Now shouldn't that show that I was GOOD at math? I didn't try and still passed with a B? And never mind the fact that I missed a ton of school since my father feel ill in October and then died later that year. So I had to repeat the same class the next year. Well, since I already knew it all, I just went through to book at the beginning of the year and did it all, and slacked off the rest of the year. After that, I sucked at math because I forgot to do all the Algebra I had learned. So when high school came, I did the bare minimum for math since I had hated it so much. Now I am terrible without a calculator. And anyone who tells you you don't need algebra is lying. I have to use it every day at work.
Don't be a cocky dick.Iron Lightning said:
I'm always bored and tired as fuck, so I don't do to well. The one semester that I actually tried I got a low A, so you could try my approach. Most people can actually do it, it's just that most peoples attention span (me included) is that of a goldfish.
Hoo boy, you think maths is hard now, I have to do maths as part of my course in college, and it's a flipping nightmare. Fourier analysis and vector calculus especially are just bananas.
get as much experience as you can, look up examples on the internet, get a few different books since each book has it's own way of explaining things.
More experience gives you more confidence, and you soon find patterns.
More experience gives you more confidence, and you soon find patterns.
Do your homework, and you will get a good grade. Don't do your homework, don't complain about your bad grade.
It's really that simple, you don't need to be smart for calculations at all. All you need to do is put in the practice. It takes no intelligence.
The homework will run you through pretty much every scenario you can expect to run into on a test. Do your homework, and you're prepared. If you get some wrong, just compare your work to the answers. If you don't understand the theory at least memorize the steps and you'll get it right and you'll be fine, the understanding will probably follow after enough practice.
You won't need to actually understand mathematical concepts until college classes ask you to apply math to find a solution instead of just giving you a problem and asking you to calculate an answer. If you're not planning on a math-centered career, then all you need to know is the calculation. And even if you're not going into a math-centered career, you still need to at least know algebra FFS. Even graphs.
Even a landscaper needs to know how much profit he's actually making so he can figure out what he should charge. /EVERYBODY/ needs to understand how interest rates work so that they can figure out what kind of mortgage they can support and how much savings is necessary to retire someday.
People today from ages 20-30 probably won't get any help from social security when they're at retirement age. The only way they can retire is if they prepare in advance. If they don't understand compound interest, they will be 75years old and still working at walmart just so they can have healthcare. Compound interest is so powerful that you can invest 8k by the end of highschool (that's 2k per highschool summer job) and retire as a millionaire! (Just dump 8k into a Roth IRA account, toss it into a index fund and withdraw tax-free at 65). The earlier you save, the less you have to save because the interest will work for you. Even small savings at an early age translates to huge amounts of money. Start saving for retirement as soon as you get your first job.
Everybody needs to understand Algebra at a minimum so they can identify the necessary amount of savings, and solve to find the rate of savings and required rate of return needed so that they can hit that goal. Everybody else will be end up old and poor.
It's really that simple, you don't need to be smart for calculations at all. All you need to do is put in the practice. It takes no intelligence.
The homework will run you through pretty much every scenario you can expect to run into on a test. Do your homework, and you're prepared. If you get some wrong, just compare your work to the answers. If you don't understand the theory at least memorize the steps and you'll get it right and you'll be fine, the understanding will probably follow after enough practice.
You won't need to actually understand mathematical concepts until college classes ask you to apply math to find a solution instead of just giving you a problem and asking you to calculate an answer. If you're not planning on a math-centered career, then all you need to know is the calculation. And even if you're not going into a math-centered career, you still need to at least know algebra FFS. Even graphs.
Even a landscaper needs to know how much profit he's actually making so he can figure out what he should charge. /EVERYBODY/ needs to understand how interest rates work so that they can figure out what kind of mortgage they can support and how much savings is necessary to retire someday.
People today from ages 20-30 probably won't get any help from social security when they're at retirement age. The only way they can retire is if they prepare in advance. If they don't understand compound interest, they will be 75years old and still working at walmart just so they can have healthcare. Compound interest is so powerful that you can invest 8k by the end of highschool (that's 2k per highschool summer job) and retire as a millionaire! (Just dump 8k into a Roth IRA account, toss it into a index fund and withdraw tax-free at 65). The earlier you save, the less you have to save because the interest will work for you. Even small savings at an early age translates to huge amounts of money. Start saving for retirement as soon as you get your first job.
Everybody needs to understand Algebra at a minimum so they can identify the necessary amount of savings, and solve to find the rate of savings and required rate of return needed so that they can hit that goal. Everybody else will be end up old and poor.
