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I learned that I actually hated math because I didnt get it throughout school so I didnt put much effort into it or focus when the teacher gave notes. Now I am a senior and passing math with flying colors and now I love it and have the confidence to pursue a Computer Science degree after I transfer from a community college to make up for my terrible grades in high school.
I got caught up in the "new math" which totally messed me up. I had to go back to junior high math in college and relearn everything. I made it as far as Calc 1 and gave up. I didn't have the time or money for more remedial work.
I had a long series of terrible teachers and awful books. It wasn't until I took responsibility for my own learning (and kept looking for materials that worked for me) that I finally made some headway. I wish we'd had Khan Academy and the Internet back then. I might've got further in the sciences if I hadn't been stuck in basic algebra.
Those of you who had excellent teachers are lucky! Those of you with brains wired correctly taught yourselves, very cool!
I learned that I actually hated math because I didnt get it throughout school so I didnt put much effort into it or focus when the teacher gave notes. Now I am a senior and passing math with flying colors and now I love it and have the confidence to pursue a Computer Science degree after I transfer from a community college to make up for my terrible grades in high school.
I hated Algebra, and all of it's X's in high school.
My math teacher never explained Algebra at all, he zoomed through it &
would give many questions afterwards. But later the math professors in
college were much better at putting it all into context.
I don't hate all math, some of it can be fun, like solving a puzzle. Some math, however, is extremely boring and feels pointless to have to learn when it has literally NOTHING to do with one's present or future career. I think that the feeling of being forced to take higher-level math courses for people in that situation causes a good bit of resentment towards math.
I personally hated math because I was never taught it very well. If you don't get a solid foundation for it at a young age, I find people have tons more difficulty with it.
I hated Algebra, and all of it's X's in high school.
My math teacher never explained Algebra at all, he zoomed through it &
would give many questions afterwards. But later the math professors in
college were much better at putting it all into context.
This was me in highschool. for some reason they taught algebra without a lick of graphing. Once on college and I could see how graphs correspond to things mathematically it made a world of difference.
Many people miss something along the way. Everything from that point on may as well be Martian. It's quite easy to miss a piece. Often children will miss something for any number of reasons and there is no real structure in place to catch them up. Teachers really are hamstrung on this one because of the strict curriculum guidelines that they have to follow.
In addition, it takes daily practice. The more you practice the better you are at it. I would tell my students that I had to do my math homework two, sometimes three, times before I could get every problem correct. But I wanted the A and that's what it took for me.
The fun thing now is the growing movement of a contingent of people who claim math disability. Just math; that's all. It is extraordinarily rare to have a singular disability in math only. A student who has a true disability in mathematics almost always has other cognitive disabilities.
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