the real reason why you're bad (or good) at math
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yeah I have a friend who is a great example of this. He was mediocre at maths at most, but at some point he went back and redid all the basics. Re-learned all the basic multiplication, addition and subtraction stuff and really getting into maths. Afterwards, he became top of the class in maths and was able to move on to grasp much more complicated topics.
At what age was this? Because I think this would never be possible at a level higher than high school
@@roejogan2693 he was maybe 15. True it gets harder the longer you wait, but he was already lagging behind because of his deficit and wether you're in high school or not, going back and re-learning the basics always seems impossible. He just had the will and motivation to do it.
man said: man I need to go back to 1st grade
*and then proceeds to become a high mathematical intellectual
Damn, I went the same journey as him. Back on grade 8 I rarely understood the concepts, I couldn't grasp the intention of the teacher when teaching. Realizing this, I've found the reason back when I tried to study and the thing is, I actually lacked the understanding of basic concepts. I then set a goal to learn pre algebra and intermediate algebra by using the resources found in youtube (Professor Leonard), literally after 1 month of studying for 1 hour it have benefited me, than going over a concept that requires the basic without having a clue on why that works.
@@zorinx744 good job fixing yourself and securing your maths future back then💪
Well back in 3rd grade my primary interests were paper planes and ruler swords so it kinda makes sense
Well what bout 6th grade
Back in my 3rd grade I was made to learn algebra it sucked because I had no idea what any of it was. I didn't have any chances to even grasp the concept because it was my first year at that school. In 6-8 grade we got more in depth and I understand it wayyy better than I did.
So were mine yet im good at maths and maybe genetics play an important role, as my father was a maths teacher.
@@paranoidandroid0761 who taught you maths?
@@paranoidandroid0761 Maybe u could be only this gud and could be better if that were true
This should be talked about more. People with genuine math skills end up hating it, simply due to missing gaps in understanding
This is 100% true for not just math, but anything. If you don't understand the essential fundamentals, then you are going to struggle
The thing is, teachers don't tell you WHY something is the way It is, they just say WHAT it is used for.
I mean there are some things that can't be explained easily on how it derived to it. For example: we know area of circle is πr² but if someone tried to explain why π is 3.14 before teaching us how to find the area. You simply wouldn't understand a thing about the area nor how π came to be.
But yea 'why something is' can be explained at times but not always cause it simply wouldn't make sense
Why does 1+1 = 2?
@@yousfiabdelali because we define it to be as such, it is the same reason as to why the Earth is called "Earth" or why your name is "Abdelali". We saw an apple, then another one, and we named it "two" apples
@@yousfiabdelali read the principa mathmatica. It explains the proof.
It's hard to focus on 30 children's different missing links when they stopped focusing at different times, espevially now with reduced attention spans from smartphones.
Me on a test finishing a problem: Alright, one last step... 2+2" *checks calculator to make sure*
Same lol. I always check everything I do, including the simple addition and subtraction.
At least y'all got calculators. 😭 (assuming you're still in school)
I think it's 5
@@pomp7117 yeah
@@pomp7117 u sure i got 23
Yeah, exactly! Sometimes when I try to teach my classmates. I noticed that instead of understanding how, they tend to just memorize it without actually having an understanding why it's like that. It's like preparing a sets of possible question, what people usually do is write the answer and memorize it word by word instead of understanding the question and answer.
Yes, so true! And that backfires when you get to university 😭
I was told it was about memorization, and I think from then on I was messed up 💀
same, my tutor told me to memorize multiplication table from 2 to 20 and I couldn't and started to think my math was bad and gave up😅😂
@unknownplayer10k for multiplication, just learning multiplication tables from 2 to 10 is enough tho.
@@unknownplayer10k Although it does make it easier if you're multiplying single digit numbers with numbers 11 to 20. It's good advice
@@unknownplayer10kand that's the reason why learning through a book is better especially in maths,some people just want you excel for the time being aot temporarily,they don't understand the gravity of their actions.
Memorizing is just plain boring and pointless.
I never thought about it like this and just thought it was just how much you practiced
But that's really the same thing
@@hunteractually3637 not really. You may practice your learned algorithms preparing for standardized tests instead of trying to grasp the ideas behind what you're doing.
@@user-ht8pm8fp3j but the more you practice the better you can grasp the ideas behind what you're doing
Practice will teach you to solve several specific types of problems. Bu change the problem a tiny bit on the test, and someone who spends all their time practicing will be stumped. Someone who really understands math will find a solution.
@@alexandrzhukov903 I disagree. Practice will also make you be able to find solutions on your own by comparing the problems to what you saw yesterday, 2 days ago, a week, a month, a year, 10 years ago
This is why (in my opinion) Math is better learned either alone or with a personal teacher or tutor. Learning maths is kinda like working out for your muscles. You focus on your technique, your understanding of concepts and implement them getting better and better with it, then you progress.
As long as the Teacher will stop when a student asks for clarification or says they are totally lost, a whole class can follow along. I was the type of student that always raised my hand with questions. My classmates would always moan when my hand went up but as soon as the Teacher started to answer my questions, they perked up because what I asked were important questions for understanding what we were learning. I'm one of those people who think ahead & think out of the box. I MAKE Teachers take the time to go into details that they would normally omit.
I agree, I always saw myself answering math problems and learning them at home by watching tutorials. I don't learn much from school...
The fundmental flaws is that they can't accommodate different learning styles by design. You are always learning under a time constraint, whereas learning is a constant life long effort.
Oh fk nah... Lit all my math skills disappear the moment my tutor is there
@@theraven.4Yep, the system is badly designed if the goal is for everyone to learn math. Yes the teacher can spend a lot of time on fundamentals and accomodating for every student, but even if your teacher is a good teacher and genuinely cares about you, it's not really possible. This is because the system needs students to get through coursework quickly and eventually get tested. The system sucks for learning by design.
Too true. I had a teacher who wouldn't answer students' questions or concerns and nearly all of us almost failed. Fast forward to highschool I would go to tutoring every day and my teacher noticed that the only reason I wasn't getting the concepts was because of my lack of fundamentals. I'm naturally bad at math but that one teacher negatively impacted me.
Basic is always important 👌
This almost made me cry because I felt the moment that slowed me down in math...
Me too 🥲
You can pick yourself up, don’t let your past define you
For me it was my 4th grade teacher, who used to keep me in at recess and re-teach me how to write numbers because my 4s always looked like 9s. Real great for a kid’s self esteem. It’s no wonder I absolutely despised the subject until high school.
For me it was in kindergarten we were watching a video about adding fractions.
@@yarlodek5842 lol
This is why I love tutoring, figuring out what basic concept is missing and teaching that to then see the student figure the problem out for them selves is amazing.
Yea thanks to my private math tutor I could finally understand wth I'm learning about, without them I feel like I would still be stuck at 4th grader math
I wish I could afford tutoring 😅
@@pleasedontlookforme8036
Same
I also tutor math and I really like it
Ur rich if u have a tutor
Strongly agree. In India, teachers often demoralise weak students. I was fortunate enough to have a mother who kept me 1 grade ahead in maths. All of my weaker friends have been berated by the math teacher at some point and so they think of maths as boring or hard.
That why chemistry & physics are difficult for us and if it is a learning part then we can understand bio easily
You are absolutely right, in India most people just slander the weak students but never bother to look at the reason behind it
"I know I'm strong because I've been weak"
-avicii
I used to skip classes in quarantine. Due to that now i can't even solve a easy question that my classmates can
This's exactly what happened with me in high school
You can learn everything on UA-cam in 2 days I've done this numerous times. UA-cam tutors are the best😍👍
I'm at 7th grade and I have problems solving stuff cuz I skipped the classes too and now i don't know the basics....... :)
Give an example of such equations
@@epikherolol8189 equation of straight line, trigonometry
Don’t try and convince me, convince the school system 😂
No Joke!
My Niece was a Teacher.
I tutored her in Math. She knew it well enough to get As in her classes but not well enough to Teach the subject. Her school made her Teach 7th graders the Math they failed on the 7th grade Math equivalency test. When she told me, begrudgingly, that she was stuck teaching this class, I tried to figure out a way that I could take off from work so I could go & tutor the students instead. Unfortunately, I couldn't. I thought to myself, these poor students, their original Teacher failed to teach them Math & now my Niece is going to fail to teach them Math, again. At the end of the school year, I asked her how many of her students passed the retake of the test. Out of 40, only 3 passed. And this, mind you, was at a private school where their Parents were paying out of pocket for their children not to be taught Math- UGH.
"My school system was the fault so I'm gonna keep blaming it and stay a loser"
Until the school system changes every one has the chance to learn math and the basics by himself and improve.
@@wtfexza
If you owned a company & your employee was doing subpar work, would you say your poor product output was their fault or yours... because you're a loser CEO?
BTW- My 9th-grade Algebra Teacher put 3 problems on the chalkboard straight out of the Teacher's Manual. 2 of the 3 problems were wrong. I called him out on it, & he demanded I leave his class & go to the Principal's office. I said to him, "What would you have me tell the Principal when I get there, I'm better prepared to teach this class than YOU?" Parents aren't paying their taxes so their kids are taught absolutely nothing or incorrectly.
@@jeanettenejadi1777
"Everyone has the chance to learn math and the basics by himself"
Are you serious?
Kids who are 3 to 7 years old are supposed to teach themselves math? If they could do that, why the heck would they need Teachers at all?
Ive always struggled understanding multiplication and subdivision, after my dad explain the correlations between them, i was mind blown
What did he tell you about multiplication and division i wanna know this!
He just described my entire experience with math
There are 3 types of people:
-Good at math
-Bad at math
Yeah: and there's one more type like me reading ur comment
- can't even count
I had a stroke reading this
-americans
The ones above the ones under and the ones who fall
the pandemic thing is so true! I couldn't learn anything properly through online classes and that affected me adversely.. I was just doing so good at math till 7th.. but from 8th the pandemic happened and I lost the smooth flow in my studies
SAME! same thing and same grade! I'm now in 10th and I'm BAD BAD at maths, guessing you're in 10th too.
@@nancyfancy9825 Sst sucks
@@peachaesthxtic23 i love sst 😂
same..... I couldn't learn the basics of grade 5th and 6th.
And now I'm having problems..... I can't understand anything 🙂
@@Content_Bunny eyyy it's ok bro Check out Khan academy then go to kinder garden and learn K-12 Ald
This man's a chad for adding that clip from the "you didn't have to cut me off" meme
Bro I dropped out of high school for two years then decided that education is the only thing went back joined a government college studied myself and completed my intermediate in mathematics and graduation in mathematics and now I'm pursuing my masters in computer science.
Good for you but for some of us life is beyond math.
Languages are actually far better than the average. 😊
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508without modern mathematics, you wouldnt be able to do anything that you normally do, like commenting on social media.
@@asdfghjkl-jk6mu sure but college maths was where I failed totally.
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 that's okay thoough but it's the math that is really useful is complex inventions
Parents:must be because of that damn phone
It's true though
In this case, yeah it can be
I'm actually relearning math right now, and this is some real stuff man.
I just learned how to use the distributive property to make large number multiplication easier.
Like when did I miss that?
How much math seemed like gibberish because I missed one single thing?
Crazy.
The "🫵🏻" felt personal 💀
When I was in high school, the class was designed to where you'd simply copy what the teacher did and then decipher it later. I simply couldn't keep up and eventually missed enough things that Calculus was seemingly impossible. Even in pre-calculus I could barely comprehend some things as they were thrown at me, but I knew that if time had stopped and I was given the chance that I'd have gotten it eventually.
Minor edit-Fixed typos.
Omg! I even can't tell you how i am suprised by reading your comment.this is exactly the same case in my case
@@sajanramgarhia4805 that’s so funny, I’m in that exact spot rn. I might have a very low B rn in Calc but it’s a struggle and takes a lot of studying bc there isn’t time to actually grasp concepts in class !
@@NGGTacos i have couple of questions for you brother. What are you doing right now in academic (school/college) ? Where are you from ? Your age and name ... Please answer
@@sajanramgarhia4805 Im in AP Calculus in high school. I’m not telling u the rest😂ur question is a bit suspect
Same
My class actually feel behind me. I’m learning the next week’s material before it is taught
L
I’m learning 2 years ahead
@@officialzelensky ok.. and?
@@officialzelensky bro thinks time travel is real lol
@@oscz5057asian parents be like:
if you have free time why don't you study the materials from next year.
@@prateekkarn9277 lol
Basically you cant skip any steps in maths
For me it was because ppl kept telling me I was bad at math as a kid in elementary school. I didn’t even know I was bad at math for a while. I kept trying, redoing problems I got wrong, asking for help, etc. but my parents and teacher got so frustrated with me asking for help all the time that they’d lecture me and I finally realized I was bad at math which made me not want to try. It’s a belief I developed in early childhood that it is still difficult to unlearn. I’m trying to be more confident because I know it’s my responsibility to learn math despite being bad at it and being lectured for several years about how I need to stop asking for help.
Me who is bad at math even though everyone says I am good: 💀
@Abdala Mustafe 90% doesn't seem much to be at the top of class but it really also depends on school and class(and exam + country) you were studying in..
I dont know if this is you too, but I used to find maths very easy. I believe maybe I started doing bad in some tests so felt like I didn't understand it well enough, or I missed some content/didnt pay attention in class, but I'd suddenly felt the tables turn. Im still in all the top classes but like, struggling so much.
This explains why my 8th grade teacher were such an amazing teacher specifically in Math. In our class there's different sets of students so there's a top students, fast learners, mid, slow learners, and students who don't have any idea.. But my teacher truly did make miracle happen even those kids that don't give a what in their academics was so involved because she would put in effort to teach the basics of the basics even if it is just one student struggling and suddenly the lessons would be easier even if I know already the basic concepts relearning basic fundementals will truly enlighten you and i have come at a point where I am liking and enjoying Math. But unfortunately Mathematics isn't just my vibe at all, but yes if I do decide I want to pursue something involving it I think I would be very aware of what to do and understand it easily not in a bragging way but I think I could do it if I have passion for it but it isn't Math that I have passion. Instead of Stem I'm more of Humss fan...
There should also be a competition for teaching...
Why did the hand point at me when he said "bad at math"😂
That finger pointing hurt me when he said bad at maths👆
This is a weird coincidence because I just took a quiz in algebra that I missed after being out of state for a couple of days and failed. And I don’t really understand the concept now and it’s good to know kinda why I’m bad at math now 😂
Irrespective if u are left behind or not consistency plays a important role in everything and even here if u are consistent u will 100% do it
this is more of a problem in modern school curriculums tbh
The building of human knowledge is so high that its foundation are too far to see.
No one talked about the “you didnt have to cut me off” scene in the video
You didn't have to cuuut me oooooof
That’s why it’s important to re-visit primary school problems time to time. Also makes me feel cute and young on the inside.
The fact that I have to go back to primary school level maths to relearn makes me feel so dumb. But I gotta do it.
@@handsomesquidward5160 Shame is one of the negative outcomes of the education system. You can't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. Taking baby steps to tackle a challenge and mastering the material is a sign of strength. Best of luck my friend.
I mean, math is cumulative, so you don't have to revisit primary school problems. And also, some primary school problems are stupidly dumbed down so the below average person can understand it. You use it in everyday life even if you're not doing math.
Like mixed fractions. I've never seen it again since like 5th grade. Remainders, kind of useless too. I only use it a bit when coding
Not just math either, I realized it in classes like history too. I remember learning that Christopher Columbus was a hero who found the America's, and "unlike common belief, he did not find out the world was not flat." Turns out its more of a "unlike common belief, he was not a hero"
@@stanky5187remainders are crucial to being able to do mental math quickly. I'd say they're extremely important
@HeyAHappyHuman not really, if you're doing harder problems, easy arithmetic should be second nature to you
It has been noticed by many that math still wouldn't answer it's own problems to date
This is very true. It only takes one teacher who takes a dislike to you or just isn't very good and rushes ahead without checking to make sure everyone is keeping up to permanently derail your progress in mathematics.
When you go engineering, you know no one ain’t good at math
Is it hard there that's why?
@@tahabashir9405 Yes, that's why.
It actually just comes down to what tools one has beforehand. If the introduction to any topic builds on your understanding with a nice presentation there is no reason one couldn't learn anything in math, at least anything astablished with good understanding from the general mathematical world. For instance, an easier, more intuitive proof is better than a harder one, generally speaking.
how bout a maths degree
In my case, I couldn’t pay attention because of my ADD and would zonk out a lot during math.
Because of that, I never really had the confidence to try in math and ended up barely passing until I graduated
However, I’m almost laughably good at English and writing essays. I can knock out 2 massive essays in maybe 4-5 hours if I really get motivated.
I have ADD too. What really helped me was when my teachers would have us take notes while they solved the equation on the whiteboard. So when I zoned out I could look at the board to see what I missed.
I also just found algebra to be easier than most other types of maths in general because the answer is already in the equation, you just have to simplify it a specific way.
At least one of us cracked the system
Your comment proves your point.
Me tooooo
@@rockingamingwiththesahit2145 And also proves maybe not everyone should be forced to take math.
Great advert for home education.
CHRISTOPHER COLOUMBUS?? Oh nah!
This is so much of an understatement and I am so glad you brought this up. I miraculously got into a good college the next state over and took a placement math test and was put in a course that was lower than the other despite me taking an AP course much more difficult than the two courses and the one I was put in taught me all the fundamentals of calculus. For awhile I was bored as I had already memorized the material (I wasn't terrible at math since I mainly memorized what to do) but when I put in the effort to learn what my instructor was teaching it honestly felt like a click happened and the more difficult concepts made sense, and then I am now helping my friends who are in a higher course than me on their homework😅, TLDR: LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS, and study trust me it does wonders, most importantly be engaged.
The background music and video presentation are dope🔥🔥🔥
Got any idea what the background is?
True a little for me, i took a big hit during the pandemic and it made me go down in academics and it took a year or two to recover but now I'm doing good
I finish things last second, but if i tried, i would be top of the class because i adapt and learn faster than most
Meanwhile my teacher tells us to memorize the equations and formulas without telling the concept and derivations then gives us a whole exercise with not less than 20 questions(with subparts in every question) to do on our own without showing how to use the formulas.
This is literally my Math teacher, freaking accurate.
@@Samantha-vlly lol
Bro just think about the formula then like where did they get it etc or try derive it on your own if u wanna learn. Depends what math level cause obviously you don’t want to try derive something you can’t but if it’s something simple like the first derivative its ez
In my experience, Teachers do this because of one of two reasons:
1) They can't be bothered to take the time to explain it to you
OR, the most common reason...
1) They don't know the answer.
Remember, "there is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers."
~Told to me by my MENSA member Uncle.
If your Teacher(s) won't go into details of the why & when, call them on it, make them stop & explain it; after all, that's their job. If they won't, go talk to the Principal (or have your Parents talk to him or her).
@@memrman8331 derive: to find the derivation. Derivation: the proof of something. Differentiate: to find the derivative. Derivative: the rate of change of a function.
Of course fundamentals are key! They’re the foundation for everything else you do in that subject
I literally was very good at school. I got praised a lot by teachers, classmates went up to me and asked for help and I was good at math and other subjects until the pandemic hit. Online schooling was terrible and barely anyone learned anything. After the pandemic I went to a project based school that was just opened this year so I was one of the first batch of students and it was terrible. The teachers did their own things and it was so unprofessional. They taught us nothing in that school and I was just from the pandemic which ruined my ability skills so I'm trying to get back my skills this summer by studying what I lost.
Can you imagine that I truly grasped what division is only recently. A repeated subtraction until you reach zero and how many times you subtract is the result of the division. (Im 12th grade btw)
This def describes my experience. I had a ruptured appendix in high school. Prior to this I was doing great in class but the long break proved to be detrimental. I was never able to truly catch up. I did well enough to pass the class but since I didn’t really understand the concepts I wasn’t able to keep up in the following class.
Pandemic made me bad at Maths.
Bro fr i litteraly lost my math era when pandemic started, i went good to worse
Bro then redo the basics instead of just blaming, and work to get better at it again(if you want to)
cope harder
Einstein took a very slow and methodical approach to solving problems.
exactly what's happening to me right now. i was sick for three weeks and i feel like i have no hope of catching up.
forever grateful to my mother who made me do the entire maths book while on a 3 week holiday during school, and then when I came back I realised I was literally like 3 months ahead
I can't even do 3grade math problems without having a breakdown
i used to have a math teacher in middle school who taught way ahead of us (around high school level) and refused to teach us properly. he clearly hated kids to the point where he said that he thinks a kid should be beaten for not understanding math. his teaching was probably my reason for becoming "bad" at math cause i was in his class for years 😭😭
Everything in maths is all down to these 4 things;
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
Technically just addition and subtraction
@@ultraeon yes, sometimes very modified and abstracted version of the two, even lebesgue integrals ans measure theory and advanced algebraic topology boils down to addition and subtraction in the end 😀
It’s just addition and subtraction.
And inverse functions. (to get the square root operation)
Very true it's mainly different ways of addition and subtraction in algebra geometry etc
It's absolutely true that 1 thing you miss will make everything pass that miserable with that small hole .
This is exactly what’s happening to me right now. Once we started learning how to get the vertex form and get x from -b/2a, I started to slowly lose my ability to break down stuff and see what exactly happens when I do the math. Now, we’re doing radicals and solving quadratic equations by completing the square, and I can barely make sense of what’s happening, mostly because my math teacher is just tossing this stuff out in class too fast. I won’t even be able to make sense of this stuff unless I take more advanced math classes that actually show where the components of this stuff come from, or if my teacher actually shows it. I started liking math about a year ago and before that I didn’t really like it that much, unless I actually got the right answer for once. But ever since I took geometry last year, I’ve started to like math more and more, which even started to mix with my interest in science (also growing at the time). Now, I like physics too and questioning stuff about it, but now I have to rewind in algebra class to try and figure out how each component works together to get the answer.
This is where your interest comes in. I am always interested in science and math, so when I see any video regarding it on youtube, I watch it and learn a new thing or two. It might not seem significant, but in the future, almost every time, a topic based on what you have seen pops up in your class. Because of this, most of the time, I am ahead in the class.
Me who’s smartest kid in class:
Hmm so I can’t get sick or get an vacation.
Same.
I’m good at math and confident at doing it
My math teacher was amazed by how many people didn't know fundamentals in our class to the point where he almost stoped teaching saying 'you NEED to go back a few classes before anyone can teach you any of this"
Its also why homeschool students learn more and are usually smarter than traditionally educated students. Because they learn at their own pace without the time constriant.
This is why my parents made my immune system so strong I practically never had colds missed 3 days of school in total
Edit : lots of people are saying this is unhealthy I just asked my parents about my immune system turns out I had loads of colds when I was younger had multiple strands of flu so I basically never had them during school because I had fought them off earlier in life
This is not healthy
@@frenchrevenge6406 it's better to not get sick
@@frenchrevenge6406 It's unhealthy to have a strong immune system?
@@Namchha1
It's unhealthy to go to school while being ill. He practically brutally forced his immune system to be like that
Idk how you did this... But a girl from my class takes antibiotics so she doesn't fall sick. Pls don't do that. It's harmful.
This is why I’m homeschooled, if I get sick I can do schoolwork after I recover and not miss a day of math
Nah, you're homeschooled because your parents are loaded.
That point was personal
You nailed it 👍👍 that’s what happened to me but I restudied math from scratch and improved so much.
Y’know I did miss 60 or more days of kindergarten-
Maths shouldn't be hated, it's very important. If Maths didn't existed, we would've never been able to count the number of tickets sold for the Greatest movie of all time Morbius (It made 1 Morbillion Dollars)
You gotta point
i think the same is with physics and chemistry too, my fundamentals from class 7th were weak so now that I'm in college, it's very hard to grab on and hence it leads to failing. please never make the mistake i did.
Teachers also plays vital role bruh.
I wish that they would do something about that
You can't build a skyscraper without foundations
And maybe the Euler - Bernoulli beam theory. That theory helped build the Eiffel Tower! Physics works!
I agree with this. I have been not doing well at math for virtually as long as I can remember. I highly think that it is because during elementary, I didn't learn long division and it absolutely messed up my learning. I was legit only estimating or eye-balling my answers when dividing. I was only able to recover from it very recently, and I have sorta discovered a tiny ember of interest in math that I have, and I really wish that I can somehow maintain it and let it grow. I have so far only dipped my toes into math, and is still struggling maths but I do really wish to learn more about it because the more I learn from it, the more patterns I see around me in nature that make me truly feel as if the universe is speaking to me in some way if that makes any sense
This is my best weakness, math.
This is exactly why I always make sure I understand everything about why something I learn about in maths is true. This has worked well for me.
Honestly the single most important concept you can learn in Algebra. Literally everything past that is just a DLC. Everything else is just an expansion pack of algebra
I disagree. Like algebra is extremely important but there are a lot of other topics that I'd consider as basics before math becomes divergent rather than cumulative knowledge.
I can relate. I was always very bad at math but I catched myself at some point and got to re-learn the basics and then I went on to improve and catch up to people and I even became 1st in my class.
someone said that finally
Looking to going back to school towards by the end of next year to take on a pre-calculus course, then so on until I eventually hit calculus 3 in which is the math required for my bachelor's degree in astrophysics and chemistry. Just like in the video, I was good at math at first, but then wasn't doing so well. So what I've did is to relearn algebra, watched videos and read math books, practiced on problems, tested them myself, then moved on. 🙂 Math takes practice, not just study.
I'll confess that I was quite addicted to playing video games since I was a child, but then that eventually wore off as I've questioned my own life decisions. Now I don't play as much as I've used to, and your environment is very important if you plan on focusing on your desired major! The thing that kept with me was passion. I'm very passionate about space, and one day would love to go up there. 🙂 You can do it!
hi i hope everything is going well for u
Wasn't expecting to be this early lol.
Honestly remembering the steps and equations is extremely easier than actually grasping the concept if you are looking for a grade
Me who didn't miss any math class but is still weak.
Practice is probably what you lack
Meanwhile me who always checks the Math answer with my calculator even for the easiest questions ever:
You are EVERYWHERE
Ong literally every video I watch you have one of the top comments
Same got some real asf trust issues 👀👀👀💀💀💀
Yup, when I was in Precal in college
I sucked so bad at understanding basic math that I would make b’s and c’s on my exams and hw’s
On the other hand my friend who was in the exact same class as me excelled and did really well… I was confused becuase I had put I more work than him like everytime… I began to wonder why he was so “smart” or if I was just dumb… fast forward after playing catch up, teaching myself basic trig, identities, algebraic manipulation and what not, I arrive here to say that I have just completed Calculus 2 and depending on the final I just took, may or may not get a “A”
It was my environment that held me back, i grew up around people who hated the education system and treated grades and learning in school like worthless, my friend had been in summer classes for years and was years ahead of me and others
(If you’re wondering why he wasn’t in a higher math class by being so smart, it was becuase he didn’t take AP credits and we wanted to have a similar first semester in college)
I aced everything up untill 8th grade. In summer break between 8th and 9th, my brother passed away from a heart attack during covid. In 9th i didn't pay attention at all and all I did was be depressed and blaming the world. Im graduating highschool in less than 2 months and my average maths and chemistry scores are in the 30s
Yep at the end of 6th grade the pandemic started and lasted till the end of 7th grade. I was supposed to learn all the basics there but i didn't pay much attention cuz i was stupid and didn't really care. Worse in 8th grade i also didn't pay attention cuz my teacher would go through the lesson kinda fast so i would try to write it all down and then i would miss the lesson, so i got bad grades. At the end of 8th grade i realised how interesting math/physics/astronomy is and how i've always been good at it so i got an A in the final test and now i continue to try and get good grades and i'm even going to go to a course. Proud of myself and i hope it gets better! Moral of the story, pay attention and don't let other people try to put the idea in your head that something is hard or boring for you (especially math), because i did that and didn't pay attention and it was the stupidest desicions of my life.
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The only reason I am bad at math is I don’t pay attention and don’t understand and get caught behind everybody else
That's kinda similar to what the video suggests
Me when beating all students in 3classes on math:
The thing is, this concept doesn't apply to only maths, but other subjects as well. Such as chemistry e.t.c
My math skills dropped off a clip once I hit 14. I always made good grades, but that was the year I got stuck with a really awful teacher.
She was super unstable and would go from Manic sugar-rush type energy to breaking down crying at the drop of a hat. I was also the only guy in a class full of girls. It was very clear that she hated me for it.
She gave me a detention once (I don’t remember why) and told me to write a letter explaining why I was there. I wrote my letter on why she was a terrible teacher and that I was in detention because of her borderline abusive behavior. It made her so mad when I turned it in, but it felt so empowering.
Whenever I tried to report her behavior to adults, no one believed me about how quickly her mood would change or how she would single me out until my parents met with her as part of my IEP and she started sobbing uncontrollably. My parents weren’t even confrontational and believed everything she had said up until that point.
After that class, Math started giving me really bad anxiety, which really hurt my ability to focus and perform. Funnily enough I work in research now studying the biophysics of auditory system. I still don’t love math, but the stuff I wanted to do required me to learn it one way or another. Ironically enough, I love Statistics and am really good at it
This is what makes me fall behind like a padawan
There ARE two kinds of people. People who are good at math, people who think they’re bad at math, and people that plain suck at math.