At the young age of 52, I am now teaching Mathematics at the local university as Associate Professor! It's never too late to start doing math My graduate education is in Physical Chemistry and I've taught Chemistry at local community colleges and I've since morphed into a Professor of Mathematics. Couldn't agree more with this video! I places your comedy videos on my Google classroom site and the older adult students who are coming back to school are laughing their butts off! Just thought you'd like to hear all of this! Cheers! K. Kennedy Associate Professor of Mathematics
Oooooooof I feel this one brother. I let school convince me I wasn't special enough to be good at math then I realized, I believed them. No one is special and the knowledge is gated out to those who aren't elite enough. The gate is the hard work and willingness to learn repeatedly, like anything else in life. Ty for sharing this!
I'm older, took a 2 year sabbatical and went back to university in software engineering. I thought once that one young man was not working as hard as me for their grades. I did not really mind though, because I'm older now and not envious anymore. But I still wanted to know how he was pulling this off. So I just asked him politely... Turns out, he already had a mix major in maths and computer sciences. So, he "seemed" to be working less "now"... but he did pay it's due before. Which is the same thing for every gifted person out there... There is no secret, no shortcut... just efforts from other we have not withnessed ourselves.
Nothing beats the brute force of just doing the thing! All my life as a young child I thought I was too dumb to learn math. In elementary school I would get C''s and D's. I barely graduated High School because of my math classes which I almost failed. I took a break after High School and then when I went to college I tested into elementary algebra. I tried to take it twice and dropped out because I was failing. At this point I was so sure in my mind and in the depths of my soul that I was broken and I was not smart enough to learn math. So I gave up and decided to give myself career options that didn't involve math. I ended up becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (no math necessary) and worked on an ambulance for a number of years. I then wanted to go back to school for nursing but realized that college algebra was a prerequisite. This of course was scary so instead of going to community college I applied to one of those super expensive nursing schools that will accept most anyone willing to pay. The caveat was that I had to take the HESI exam which had basic math and even that scared the crap out of me. This time something in me said, "You know what I can do this! I just need to study and practice over and over until I understand it. Its time to confront this fear of math once and for all!" So I got the HESI practice exam book and focused primarily on studying the math. Practicing the problems over and over again until the math became intuitive. I even noticed that I started to enjoy practicing math. Again, basic factions percentages etc but I had never enjoyed this stuff before! I took the exam and for the math portion I scored 100%!!! It was at that point I finally overcame years and years of negative self defeating talk. When it came time to sign the acceptance papers for the school I couldn't do it. $100k was too much to swallow! So I enrolled in community college again. Started at the elementary algebra class that I had previously dropped out of twice. This time I was determined, motivated, a little scared but excited. I applied the same principles I used when studying for the HESI to the elementary algebra class. I got an A+ in the class! Moved on to intermediate algebra and got another A+! At this point I genuinely enjoyed math! Enrolled in the once so scary college algebra and got an A+ in that class as well! I even applied to become a college algebra tutor at the school and got offered the job! For nursing that was all I needed math wise but decided to take trigonometry just for fun and curiosity. I know for a fact that if I can learn and enjoy math, anyone certainly can! It just takes some of us more time, dedication and patience. Consistency and believing in yourself is key and this applies to anything we may want to do! We are all capable. Thanks for sharing this video!
I'm not gonna say I was "gifted" but I was good at learning things fast and better than anyone in class. Always got full grades but when it came to holding a conversation, it's something I can't do cause of severe social anxiety. I once made a fool of myself at school assembly, when I rehearsed the speech a gazillion times but couldn't utter a word in the event. So, it's not a bad thing that you're not "gifted" or not "good". I remember that I couldn't find the area of rectangle when I was in 5th grade. But now I'm a med student who took up maths as a hobby cause world doesn't pay mathematicians much. And yes, I'll learn how to talk to patients before graduating.
I’m so glad you realise how important communication with patients is. That is one of the most important aspects of begin example a doctor. Making them understand their problems too
@astiti5266 at first, I wanted to become a mathematician. But then I realised, I had a friend with genetic illness which is too unimportant for pharmaceutical companies to find a cure for. The hospital was a traumatic experience, so it should'nt be for others too. So I wanna help those kids, and prove to them that things can get better. And try to work on a cure.
@What-is-tru Give them a break, you just shattered their whole belief system. Who knows how long they were believing that thing to be true. Plus the same thing happens to me too. I'm afraid to tell them they are wrong cause I have a short stature and I fear they will beat me to pulp, if I argue. My heartbeat skyrockets and I get into a freeze response. That's where I only talk with 2 friends of mine who understand me, won't fight me if I prove them wrong. Gentleman, I have hit the lottery on that
Math takes exercise. It may take some more time to process and grasp certain concepts (me) but after a while it starts to make sense. Damn i struggled with basic algebra at some point, but eventually you start to see the process and patterns and muscle memory kicks in
6 months ago i didn't know what the symbols for real numbers or rationals was and now I'm doing bachelor's level mathematics lol. Not the best yet, but average at least.
The Calculus Tutoring Book by Carol Ash and Robert B. Ash includes a line, “Too much rigor leads to rigor mortis.” Some people struggle with math during their teen years and earn an” A” in Differential Equations and can attribute it to a strong knowledge of the real world applications. There are many reasons for success in math. 🎉🎉
I used to really get a high from exams. But to get that high I used to revise for weeks, and then still have to take a week off work for final revision. But even then, I didn't dare look at notes before the exam in case I "lost my nerve". The only way I got through my exams was by over-preparing for them. It was a kind of all-or-nothing for me.
i EXACTLY stopped maths because of the work. i WAS the perfect exemple of "naturally talented" in maths. as a kid, teenager, i was a math genius, never worked at home, professors giving me perfect scores, and telling my parents they had never seen this. and THEN, during highschool last year i lost interest in math because it was just learning by heart formulas and reasonings, and using them again during the exams. no creativity, no exploration, no understanding of profound relations, just learning by heart the program, and showing in the exam that you learned what they told you. i had still good scores, but lost all my interest, and never studied math after that. its a waste because i know i was passionate, obsessed with maths. i could have becomed an real math explorer, researcher and inventor. and school destroyed all of it. school destroyed one of my friend too, who did not finish maths university graduate for the same reasons. he is a real genius, creating formulas, and new demonstrations that have never been done before, his professors destroyed his passion, he dropped out. to this date he is the best genius i have ever met in my life, and i know a lot of smart people. and he lost all interest in university system.
When I was in high school in the very early 1970s, my advanced math teacher had a quote by Newton above the chalkboard, that read “I Think On It Constantly” (from a letter Newton had sent someone answering how he came up with a solution to a certain problem) . My teacher said the reason he had that quote up there was because if a mind like Newton’s had to constantly think about this stuff, to figure it out, we could at least do our assigned homework!
Yeah I can relate myself to that. I was kind of an art guy in my teeange, and I could pour out passages of prose and poems nonstop. However, I just though of studying in math stream (maths, physics, and chemistry). I still can't solve math problems, but I know lots of advanced maths not just by heart, but 'by gut'. I have my own simpler definitions and interpretations of bizarre math concepts. Most of the math is intuitive to me now, but it makes me sick when reading even a simple hard definition (so-called standard) of maths. It's like legal writings I think. You can't easily read and understand acts of parliament and let alone write them. Otherwise, the content of them is so easy and mundane mostly. Same goes with maths. If certain conditions and perspectives are modified, anything is anything in this world because everything has to be understood by this human brain. Nobody is special, it's just conditioning and practising.
3:46 - "Stay in school! Don't do what I did!" My father, a physician, encouraged me to quit high school. Sadly, I ignored his advice. Finishing high school these days has dubious value in my opinion, for many reasons I won't go into here.
I'm an engineer by education but have worked many different jobs not related to my education for the past decade. Trying to get back to math and trust me it's not been easy. The proofs and mathematical calculations that I could basically do in my sleep are no longer instinctive or even easy anymore. So yeah, those who think being able to do math is pretty much just an innate skill, should just take that opinion and throw it in the garbage bin. I'd just like to add that your videos, motivating your viewers to pick up math again, have been a real inspiration for me as well. I'm starting with Trigo and some basic algebra and I hope to eventually get back to my level of proficiency from my college days.
Math for me is a love/hate relationship. I love what it can do but I hate that I can’t see through the steps needed to solve the problem and the best way to solve that is to do the work and take my time
Hello, TMS. I love your videos. I've bought every single course (literally all 18 of them - are you making more??) I love them so much. For context: i graduated highschool. going to be getting military enlistment in a month or so because i want the GI bill. going to be attending community college in a few years. is it possible i can attend community college and transfer to princeton or some higher end school? what would be required of me? would i have to join MAO or math clubs? would you be able to give advice to absolutely strengthen as a pure math ba major AS MUCH AS COMPREHENSIBLY possible to get in? if not princeton then harvard's community college - and would THAT strengthen chances of getting into princeton let's say? if i essentially "hopped" from one school to another or is that a red flag? i see it as university's adaptation of LoL's rank system tbh lmao. or will this look bad? same as the "pick your easy professor" strats. suppose i join MAO. would you have any tips generally and personally for becoming as competent in math as can be? you mentioned you weren't a competition type of folk, i wanted to beg of you any advice if you believed it was a good idea. or should i even bother self with activities i don't care about? i concern not over societies, clubs, etc but they seem like a REQUIREMENT almost (we both know how power creep and skill creep in games - especially in LoL work. same thing with applicant pools and population's educations - what i'm competing against means i NEED to be doing every single thing possible in order to be even remotely worthy. what math organizations societies etc OTHER THAN the MAO would you suggest i join? what were the traits of the most successful students at your school clubs - when you were in school AND teaching - AND also, most successful not even limiting to MAO, but of your own personal students you personally teach. if you check back i texted you on udemy roughly 2.5 years ago as i had infatuation with math which began grade 11 and grade 12. fast forward, a ton of life unfortunates got in the way. i ended up doing for further context EXTREEEMELY poorly in sr year. like we're talking in quarter 2 i got a 0.9 gpa. not an 8 - that was a "zero". i LOVED math but other stuff wrecked me. i fell pretty low and very hard. but as of past day or so im getting back up and taking on the college algebra series - and doin the rest of your courses IN ORDER. what is the eta time im going to be getting completion of your courses? 12 months 8 hours a day you would say? if VERY dedicated as #1 hobby and i drop gaming etc? im 100% dedicated. believe me. i will do anything at any costs - cutting the fat (trading gaming hobbying for math hobbying) is just the start of infinite sacrifices. i sent you at the time an email i recall, but you never replied. i'm aware the overload and themes discussed may've discouraged you. my mistake was burdening you with the unsolvabilities and unfortunacies life brings, both of which out of your locus of control. now i'm better. now i'm smarter. now i beg your attention back to me, my situation, and your wisdom. i ask of your - ANY - advice to my situation. TLDR: applying to colleges, upgrading colleges, course completion. P.S: 1 also, where'd your forum site go? 2 also, can you please make more courses? i'd REALLY love to see a "generalized" course - where you go over your tips such as this ua-cam.com/video/lrcIdmITMG8/v-deo.html and other various gems. 3 also, can you cover long division? i need for the ASVAB and you're the best teacher lol i ask YOU because i know you have very fascinating methods at doing things --- factoring - synthetic division - memorization - fraction adding - problem solving prowess. 4 what is the "track" or branches of courses i should take? i WILL take EVERY SINGLE COURSE of your's - so what courses should one start with? obviously not calculus 3 first lol... what is the path i should take? if possible, please tell ! 5 Are you still working on your precalc course?
I went to high school with someone who went to community college and transferred to Yale. She was really smart, an “A” student in high school and assume the same in college.
I know someone who was very smart and a disciplined student who was a top student in high school (I can’t vouch all A’s, but would be surprised if not.) She went to community college and transferred to Yale. UA-cam automatically deleted my comment and is not placing your account name at the top, so tried again.
I'm revisiting pre algebra right now. The beauty is coming upon areas of struggle and realizing my pain threshold for getting stuff wrong and then coming back to master it.
Hey I really love your videos! And also since I am a native speaker of spanish I can help you a little with this, you see "El que madruga dios le ayuda" means the same thing you actually wanted to say, "madruga" comes from "madrugada" that is really early in the morning, so it means something like "He who wakes up early, God blesses him"
I just completed part one of Matrix sheet 30 questions in 5 hours I feel very good doing it ❤😊 Thanks Math Sorcerer. You videos are helping me. I just hope now that I'll build speed in solving questions 😅
@@TheMathSorcerer I saw Your Video And You Said That You made silly mistakes and you solve the matrix chapter till 2 am. At that time it was 6:30 PM I decided to also do matrix till 2am but completed all at 12AM 😁 I thought I was only struggling from these problems. But watching your videos help he realise that everyone goes through these problems who try. I'm able to solve one question in 6-10 mins I have to reduce the speed to 1-3 mins. Can you suggest me what should I do?
I was highly anxious about the math requirements to obtain my BS is Computer Science. I told my advisor about my anxiety about it, and she, being a Mathematics PhD shared with me the most helpful secret. “Math is hard, read the text book until you understand each example.” I received a dual degree in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. I just had to work at Math every day. No magic, just consistent and focused pressure I put into the task.
I made the mistake of giving up in frustration with linear algebra because I was earning mediocre grades. Much later I found out the problem centered on practicing the problems, filling in gaps of background, and concentrating on the concepts instead of trying to memorize everything. It explained why I twice hit the 99 percentile in high school aptitude tests, yet college left me in the woods, not only in math, but in other subjects as well. I am visual, so the computer graphics which didn't exist in 1977 help me see those problems, but that was never the only reason for the frustration.
So often it's the kind of things we feel we have to overlearn that we end up getting better at, while natural strengths can atrophy from lack of conscious effort.
I switched from physics to applied math after my first year because I fell in love with the challenge. When I took abstract algebra and advanced calc I couldn't navigate the proofs so I would memorize the fifty we could potentially see on an exam hoping to get two of the three correct. I was in a constant state of studying, it wasn't uncommon to practice 10hrs a day for a week leading up to a test. I'd get up at midnight the morning of an exam trying to squeeze out as much time as possible. Needless to say I'm not naturally blessed, it was the greatest struggle of my life getting through undergrad, but I can almost guarantee none of my classmates outworked me.
My professors would make sure that NONE of the problems solved during lecture or any other activity during the course would show up on the exam. It would always be from some obscure looked over chapter in the course material.
I was bad at math in school because I never did homework. Motor bikes were more fun. But I got by. In my thirties I had to do a math course as a prerequisite for advanced computer training. I discovered that I loved the math more than the coding. I became a math devourer. I loved doing any math problem I could find. It was like a challenge. The more difficult the better. In the end I was disappointed if I didn't get 100% on tests and exams. I was made math lecturer at my college.
The bottom line in a generalized way is a person must have an interest in the subject manner and even better a growing interest (like Watson Fulks wrote) - without that you become ignorant and un-caring - "Don't know - Don't case" and that is OK for many subjects and issues. Besides - Like Ringo Starr sang "You gotta pay your dues, if you want play the blues, and know IT DON'T COME EASY"
Isn't this the truth of everything? As Jack Sheldon, the great jazz trumpeter and vocalist was asked: "Why do you still practice?" His career spanned 60 years. He said: "I'm just trying to get good."
The biggest practical lie is this ... seeing a beautiful calculation, derivation, or proof. And thinking the author did it on this one clean page. In actuality, many pieces of paper, eraser marks, sweat, tears, etc finally comes together. Only then, a clean sheet of paper comes out with the work on it...and it was done without effort and hard work and as if you knew it all along. For example, it took Bernoulli more than 3 pages in an engineering book to come up with his equation for fluids.
You definitely need some aptitude to be really good at maths even at a high school level. But aptitude is usually associated with interest in the subject, because the student finds what he is doing naturally rewarding rather than frustrating. As a result, people with innate aptitude are naturally motivated to do the work. So the real question is how to make it interesting for the others, so that they are motivated to do the work even without the natural aptitude. Fortunately there are tools these days - like GeoGebra - which can turn the roots of a parametric polynomial into an engaging animation and make it clear what the equation is really doing, to take a simple example. I did maths and theoretical physics at university in the early Eighties and don't really remember too much about them. But I now find myself about to start tutoring high school students in maths. It's fascinating to me to discover these modern visualisation and symbolic calculation tools and think about how I could use them to get unmotivated students more engaged with the subject.
I think that it's just easier to think: Ohh, that person is gifted or lucky etc. instead of comprehending how much suffering, how many failings lie behind someone's success. Math is no exception
"You 'll get it, you are ..." spoken to auditorium did upload task, whatever was it. But it's up to you as a good mathematician to offload it at your will if it is not for profit or other benefit.
I've been constructing a family Library for the last 8 years its full of subjects from Music, to Law, religion, and Maths and Physics; I'm currently enjoying Music, have a rough idea for my library and am content with its overall shape, I have 6 months learning guitar and I already know that it's not going to last forever eventually I will be content with my overall skills at that moment I know I will want to try my hand at Maths; I'm 28 years old if I play guitar for 10 years I know I will be 38, I'll travel for 2 years, at 40 I'm going to sit down and revisit Euclid and probably start with Set theory and discrete mathematics before I start algebra 1 and 2. My question is am I stupid to consider a math journey at 40? Is 40 too old to be a beginner?
9:00 you have to be gifted to become one of the top 250 in the world. But if thats not what you aim to reach, as long as you do not have serious problems, you can learn math at the level u want to
I'm naturally good at math because I've got a high spacial intelligence. I can easily visualize the numbers in my head and do calculations. When I was in high school I only took Algebra 1. After I high school, I went to college and had to take a math class above Algebra 2 so I could transfer to the University of California Santa Barbara. I skipped over Algebra 2 to save myself from having to go to college another semester. I took a statistics class that had a prerequisite of Algebra 2 and passed it. It was a big hurdle for me and I did have to study every day for hours because it was hard, I didn't have the Algebra 2 prerequisite, and it was fast paced because I took it during summer school.
When you buy a math book always get one with lots of problems at the end of each chapter. And answers. Schaum Outline series worked best for me. I remember Murray R. Spiegel fondly. Laplace Transforms and Fourier Analysis.
In high-school i wasn't good enough for maths,,but i was doing physics at the time though i found that am doing good in physics than mathematics and its not too good for me and I was judge negatively...but later when I joined college ,,I am an engineering student and am good again for college maths than before in high-school and I don't know what is going on
those who seems to be naturally gifted in math are those who enjoy working on puzzles and figuring out how to solve them. They see the value of solving the problem that's why they are persistent until they arrive at satisfiable answer. They eventually become adept in mathematical thinking as more and more problems they solve.
Bunch of words meant to, what? Convince people there's no such thing as natural ability for math? Ok, make that argument for the millionth time, I mean it's been made before, and millions of times before, but that won't stop some kids in math class from almost instantaneously grasping something that other kids need to work for weeks on.
Even those two, clearly gifted, young girls who put forward those trigonometry based proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, admit that it wasn't close to easy for them.
The gratest matematicians worked the hardest to sharpen there brains and thoughts, for example Einstein worked even years on some problems just understand and solve them, and he did never give up, meanwhile we do. Maybe we have to try harder.
Maybe just start with something simple and maybe just do 1 or 2 problems a day and soon you will do more and more and get onto more advanced and fun topics
Its how many classes your taking. I'd watch the stock market until I was sick. This one guy was taking nine classes at once, maybe your super healthy like this guy was. But most of the time I just sat in the cafteria and worked on assignments. I'd get all mad and go ask why the problem was wrong. Draw up a superheterodyne satellite, oh that's why they glow. But one day, these physics kids all thought it would be cool to cheat. The oddest thing was I'd make oddball mistakes. Like in Calculus II, I really didn't know any better until I took it twice, but in physics I'd just mess up alot. This amplified when I went from JC to UC. Always for children, pizza shapes cafteria, climb a hill everywhere you go. The teacher would talk to maybe 15 students at the most, just dullard bewilderment everywhere. I'd dream I was late for face painting psychology for a month, "where is your Debrah classic for show and tell?" But in combinations I learned something from them, out of brutality of nothing learned. Its how many zeros you can store in a combination is how much information you can store in a combination. Thus the eigenvalue, jacobean, and free space, exists because you can define a set space regardless of a sets size. Which all their classes refute, its just a wrapper. Well money wasted I figure. It started off with the proof that things are inherently 3D, so I knew linear algebra was a scam, how do you put 899 blocks in 1201 blocks, this is a shambego, but now, behold, stuff is only 3D. So I started by asking how many combinations store two zero's? Its easy, seven sets store a chiral radix. You can store a padded radix, but this just gravitational, it has no need to curl or interact. Just each number 1-7 goes in a abc place. So for much larger numbers; 64-4096-16777216, you have infinite zeros storage in (a-(b-(-c(-d)))))= e. So, there's a billion little graduate ideas in there, but first you'd be stuck in closure ville.
I love this message. I also think math people can get a little too Sheldon Cooper when it comes to explaining things. People can stop using “Let us hypothesize” or “and thus we see“ when making a video about basic Taylor Series. I think math people can forget how accessible most concepts are especially in this technical age.
Part of me always gets enraged whenever the topic of "talent" is brought up. Any discussion about "talent" or "giftedness" not only detracts from the amount of work required for people to excel in these subjects, but it is also highly discouraging to people who do not feel as if they are "NaTuRaLlY gIfTeD" (whatever the hell that means)-that people who do not possess certain "gifts" are genetically incapable of becoming experts in certain fields-that people who are not "talented" are unable to become the best of the best in a certain field. Also, the conflation of "talent" and "intelligence" makes it appear as if intelligence is some fixed quantity when it clearly is not! We should stop venerating talent and instead venerate hard work!
Talent exists but it's only a propensity for capabilities. Computer hardware limits how fast a benchmark can run but improved computer software using a superior algorithm can indeed run faster. Humans are no different from computing machinery in this respect. Everyone can usually do better, stronger, and faster with practice but everyone's limit differs, based upon their particular constitution. Practice doesn't make perfect but it can absolutely get one much closer.
Coming from 66 years of so called life carrying the name Matthew punctuated by a BA in math from1980, and a working life in the financial services industry where arithmetic is not considered an art, let me say this about that. Geometry and the one arithmetic equation that defines every geometric shape down to the line or arc made up of the points a line of length one is composed of no matter what the one is defined as in base 60, if you do not Have a triangular grip on the arithmetic of the circle you can use all the broken ideas you like to approximate any possible substitute for the one system made up of one equation that contains the final solution. Makes no difference if the solution needing solving is a crystal clear solid liquid plasmatic gas or imagined molecular Geometry built around Hydrogen or Helium the two two component compounds found at The bottom of every school bag every school book and every school student attempting to understand fire and where fire burns to provide heat and where fire burns houses that penguins never dream of down to the cold hard ground you imagine is below you when we are flying through the air at a speed the students in the third grade near you could calculate if they are not lost in the nonsense looking to escape the mind of someone wandering aimlessless after being indoctrinated into the school of calculost by some lost soul taught to ignore the power of a triangle and a line used as a lever and a fulcrum to open the hood of this planetary system and find the engine That hides just out of plane sight in the corners of arcs only exposed by squaring two and three with glee see...
it's not a lie man, some people are tuned into the world of mathematics. there are some wild people out there. for some people it's easier for them to get started and for others it's like trying to climb up a stiff ass cliff (like me)
If you pay attention to detail you'll find its a specific step by step anylitical line of measure phylosphy across all feilds, dicipline, markets you name it that power that be is always detouring or deflecting from such basic logic where you see it and it's like most obvious source of solution this is has been developed by design of a good 150 year process and it sacrifices something like excersize the minds practicing maths in routine because low and behold independent self sufficient actors wouldn't need to buy quick fix go/nogo generalized realitive tools to fill in the blanks. These loose sloppy generalizations has value in all feilds and industry they just come in different forms. These in maths dumb you down and by pass facts so that you have vulnerability or clutches. Even better your a robot mystified in maths banging your head against the wall in numbers when it's far better resources and answers to the very problem you seek.
I was doing mental math when I was young, but then got sideswiped by Common Core in high school, and was left relying on a calculator for some years before I got fed up and started drilling like crazy. It's only addition and subtraction for now, but I can somewhat reliably handle the hundreds without a sheet of paper, which will help with not having to touch a calculator at all given some additional time.
Math is just hard. As a math and physics major I can tell you that even hard work won't get a lot of people very far in high maths. You can get better but there is a limit
I got 98/100 on my math exam because of your advice. Yes, indeed, it was only about hard work. From average to highest point in my class is just crazy
I'm happy for you
big w. awesome dude, i am ecstatic for u :)
w💯thanks for the inspiration i start calc 2 again after failing it in 2021 with a new purpose
Congratulations
At the young age of 52, I am now teaching Mathematics at the local university as Associate Professor! It's never too late to start doing math
My graduate education is in Physical Chemistry and I've taught Chemistry at local community colleges and I've since morphed into a Professor of Mathematics. Couldn't agree more with this video! I places your comedy videos on my Google classroom site and the older adult students who are coming back to school are laughing their butts off!
Just thought you'd like to hear all of this!
Cheers!
K. Kennedy
Associate Professor of Mathematics
I'm really happy to learn about your story.
Thanks a lot for what you do professor
The greatest trick Math ever pulled was convincing the world that you need to be gifted….
Oooooooof I feel this one brother. I let school convince me I wasn't special enough to be good at math then I realized, I believed them. No one is special and the knowledge is gated out to those who aren't elite enough. The gate is the hard work and willingness to learn repeatedly, like anything else in life. Ty for sharing this!
Nicely put 😀
Yeah, I often know that I probably can't win but I still give myself an award for putting up *A GOOD FIGHT* . I always got awards ! 😂
"Mathematics is difficult, even for mathematicians." ~ Reinhold Böhme, quoted in Appendix A of "Vector Calculus" (2nd Edition) by Marsden & Tromba.
I'm older, took a 2 year sabbatical and went back to university in software engineering.
I thought once that one young man was not working as hard as me for their grades.
I did not really mind though, because I'm older now and not envious anymore. But I still wanted to know how he was pulling this off.
So I just asked him politely...
Turns out, he already had a mix major in maths and computer sciences.
So, he "seemed" to be working less "now"... but he did pay it's due before.
Which is the same thing for every gifted person out there... There is no secret, no shortcut... just efforts from other we have not withnessed ourselves.
Great comment, thank you !
"Efforts from others that we have not witnessed" Gold! Well said.
Nothing beats the brute force of just doing the thing! All my life as a young child I thought I was too dumb to learn math. In elementary school I would get C''s and D's. I barely graduated High School because of my math classes which I almost failed. I took a break after High School and then when I went to college I tested into elementary algebra. I tried to take it twice and dropped out because I was failing. At this point I was so sure in my mind and in the depths of my soul that I was broken and I was not smart enough to learn math. So I gave up and decided to give myself career options that didn't involve math.
I ended up becoming an Emergency Medical Technician (no math necessary) and worked on an ambulance for a number of years. I then wanted to go back to school for nursing but realized that college algebra was a prerequisite. This of course was scary so instead of going to community college I applied to one of those super expensive nursing schools that will accept most anyone willing to pay. The caveat was that I had to take the HESI exam which had basic math and even that scared the crap out of me.
This time something in me said, "You know what I can do this! I just need to study and practice over and over until I understand it. Its time to confront this fear of math once and for all!" So I got the HESI practice exam book and focused primarily on studying the math. Practicing the problems over and over again until the math became intuitive. I even noticed that I started to enjoy practicing math. Again, basic factions percentages etc but I had never enjoyed this stuff before! I took the exam and for the math portion I scored 100%!!! It was at that point I finally overcame years and years of negative self defeating talk.
When it came time to sign the acceptance papers for the school I couldn't do it. $100k was too much to swallow! So I enrolled in community college again. Started at the elementary algebra class that I had previously dropped out of twice. This time I was determined, motivated, a little scared but excited. I applied the same principles I used when studying for the HESI to the elementary algebra class. I got an A+ in the class! Moved on to intermediate algebra and got another A+! At this point I genuinely enjoyed math! Enrolled in the once so scary college algebra and got an A+ in that class as well! I even applied to become a college algebra tutor at the school and got offered the job! For nursing that was all I needed math wise but decided to take trigonometry just for fun and curiosity.
I know for a fact that if I can learn and enjoy math, anyone certainly can! It just takes some of us more time, dedication and patience. Consistency and believing in yourself is key and this applies to anything we may want to do! We are all capable.
Thanks for sharing this video!
I'm not gonna say I was "gifted" but I was good at learning things fast and better than anyone in class. Always got full grades but when it came to holding a conversation, it's something I can't do cause of severe social anxiety. I once made a fool of myself at school assembly, when I rehearsed the speech a gazillion times but couldn't utter a word in the event. So, it's not a bad thing that you're not "gifted" or not "good". I remember that I couldn't find the area of rectangle when I was in 5th grade. But now I'm a med student who took up maths as a hobby cause world doesn't pay mathematicians much. And yes, I'll learn how to talk to patients before graduating.
I’m so glad you realise how important communication with patients is. That is one of the most important aspects of begin example a doctor. Making them understand their problems too
@astiti5266 at first, I wanted to become a mathematician. But then I realised, I had a friend with genetic illness which is too unimportant for pharmaceutical companies to find a cure for. The hospital was a traumatic experience, so it should'nt be for others too. So I wanna help those kids, and prove to them that things can get better. And try to work on a cure.
@What-is-tru Give them a break, you just shattered their whole belief system. Who knows how long they were believing that thing to be true. Plus the same thing happens to me too. I'm afraid to tell them they are wrong cause I have a short stature and I fear they will beat me to pulp, if I argue. My heartbeat skyrockets and I get into a freeze response. That's where I only talk with 2 friends of mine who understand me, won't fight me if I prove them wrong. Gentleman, I have hit the lottery on that
Math takes exercise. It may take some more time to process and grasp certain concepts (me) but after a while it starts to make sense.
Damn i struggled with basic algebra at some point, but eventually you start to see the process and patterns and muscle memory kicks in
Absolutely, practice makes perfect!
6 months ago i didn't know what the symbols for real numbers or rationals was and now I'm doing bachelor's level mathematics lol. Not the best yet, but average at least.
not me thinking he was gonna introduce Lie algebras
Same here. LOL
5:42 Madrugar means waking up early, so "al que madruga dios le ayuda" translates to god helps the one who wakes up early.
Thanks!
Wow, thank you!!
Congrats on reaching 1 million subs ! We love you man.
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I used to really get a high from exams. But to get that high I used to revise for weeks, and then still have to take a week off work for final revision. But even then, I didn't dare look at notes before the exam in case I "lost my nerve". The only way I got through my exams was by over-preparing for them. It was a kind of all-or-nothing for me.
I'm so glad this is what you're saying. I wrote a poem once. It was called, "I do not worship numbers."
I appreciate your work alot man, you sparkled my interest for math again. Math is more than numbers, is the beauty of reasoning.
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i EXACTLY stopped maths because of the work. i WAS the perfect exemple of "naturally talented" in maths. as a kid, teenager, i was a math genius, never worked at home, professors giving me perfect scores, and telling my parents they had never seen this. and THEN, during highschool last year i lost interest in math because it was just learning by heart formulas and reasonings, and using them again during the exams. no creativity, no exploration, no understanding of profound relations, just learning by heart the program, and showing in the exam that you learned what they told you. i had still good scores, but lost all my interest, and never studied math after that. its a waste because i know i was passionate, obsessed with maths. i could have becomed an real math explorer, researcher and inventor. and school destroyed all of it. school destroyed one of my friend too, who did not finish maths university graduate for the same reasons. he is a real genius, creating formulas, and new demonstrations that have never been done before, his professors destroyed his passion, he dropped out. to this date he is the best genius i have ever met in my life, and i know a lot of smart people. and he lost all interest in university system.
When I was in high school in the very early 1970s, my advanced math teacher had a quote by Newton above the chalkboard, that read “I Think On It Constantly” (from a letter Newton had sent someone answering how he came up with a solution to a certain problem) .
My teacher said the reason he had that quote up there was because if a mind like Newton’s had to constantly think about this stuff, to figure it out, we could at least do our assigned homework!
Yeah I can relate myself to that. I was kind of an art guy in my teeange, and I could pour out passages of prose and poems nonstop. However, I just though of studying in math stream (maths, physics, and chemistry). I still can't solve math problems, but I know lots of advanced maths not just by heart, but 'by gut'. I have my own simpler definitions and interpretations of bizarre math concepts. Most of the math is intuitive to me now, but it makes me sick when reading even a simple hard definition (so-called standard) of maths. It's like legal writings I think. You can't easily read and understand acts of parliament and let alone write them. Otherwise, the content of them is so easy and mundane mostly. Same goes with maths. If certain conditions and perspectives are modified, anything is anything in this world because everything has to be understood by this human brain. Nobody is special, it's just conditioning and practising.
I gave a very similar talk to one of my students this week. Thank you.
This was an excellent pep talk on math (and other) learning. Thank-you!
3:46 - "Stay in school! Don't do what I did!" My father, a physician, encouraged me to quit high school. Sadly, I ignored his advice. Finishing high school these days has dubious value in my opinion, for many reasons I won't go into here.
Love this, thank you. I’m going to add maths practice into my calendar. ❤
I'm an engineer by education but have worked many different jobs not related to my education for the past decade. Trying to get back to math and trust me it's not been easy. The proofs and mathematical calculations that I could basically do in my sleep are no longer instinctive or even easy anymore. So yeah, those who think being able to do math is pretty much just an innate skill, should just take that opinion and throw it in the garbage bin.
I'd just like to add that your videos, motivating your viewers to pick up math again, have been a real inspiration for me as well. I'm starting with Trigo and some basic algebra and I hope to eventually get back to my level of proficiency from my college days.
Math for me is a love/hate relationship. I love what it can do but I hate that I can’t see through the steps needed to solve the problem and the best way to solve that is to do the work and take my time
Hello, TMS. I love your videos. I've bought every single course (literally all 18 of them - are you making more??) I love them so much.
For context: i graduated highschool. going to be getting military enlistment in a month or so because i want the GI bill. going to be attending community college in a few years.
is it possible i can attend community college and transfer to princeton or some higher end school? what would be required of me? would i have to join MAO or math clubs? would you be able to give advice to absolutely strengthen as a pure math ba major AS MUCH AS COMPREHENSIBLY possible to get in? if not princeton then harvard's community college - and would THAT strengthen chances of getting into princeton let's say? if i essentially "hopped" from one school to another or is that a red flag? i see it as university's adaptation of LoL's rank system tbh lmao. or will this look bad? same as the "pick your easy professor" strats.
suppose i join MAO. would you have any tips generally and personally for becoming as competent in math as can be? you mentioned you weren't a competition type of folk, i wanted to beg of you any advice if you believed it was a good idea. or should i even bother self with activities i don't care about? i concern not over societies, clubs, etc but they seem like a REQUIREMENT almost (we both know how power creep and skill creep in games - especially in LoL work. same thing with applicant pools and population's educations - what i'm competing against means i NEED to be doing every single thing possible in order to be even remotely worthy. what math organizations societies etc OTHER THAN the MAO would you suggest i join? what were the traits of the most successful students at your school clubs - when you were in school AND teaching - AND also, most successful not even limiting to MAO, but of your own personal students you personally teach.
if you check back i texted you on udemy roughly 2.5 years ago as i had infatuation with math which began grade 11 and grade 12. fast forward, a ton of life unfortunates got in the way. i ended up doing for further context EXTREEEMELY poorly in sr year. like we're talking in quarter 2 i got a 0.9 gpa. not an 8 - that was a "zero". i LOVED math but other stuff wrecked me. i fell pretty low and very hard. but as of past day or so im getting back up and taking on the college algebra series - and doin the rest of your courses IN ORDER. what is the eta time im going to be getting completion of your courses? 12 months 8 hours a day you would say? if VERY dedicated as #1 hobby and i drop gaming etc? im 100% dedicated. believe me. i will do anything at any costs - cutting the fat (trading gaming hobbying for math hobbying) is just the start of infinite sacrifices.
i sent you at the time an email i recall, but you never replied. i'm aware the overload and themes discussed may've discouraged you. my mistake was burdening you with the unsolvabilities and unfortunacies life brings, both of which out of your locus of control. now i'm better. now i'm smarter. now i beg your attention back to me, my situation, and your wisdom. i ask of your - ANY - advice to my situation.
TLDR: applying to colleges, upgrading colleges, course completion.
P.S:
1 also, where'd your forum site go?
2 also, can you please make more courses? i'd REALLY love to see a "generalized" course - where you go over your tips such as this ua-cam.com/video/lrcIdmITMG8/v-deo.html and other various gems.
3 also, can you cover long division? i need for the ASVAB and you're the best teacher lol i ask YOU because i know you have very fascinating methods at doing things --- factoring - synthetic division - memorization - fraction adding - problem solving prowess.
4 what is the "track" or branches of courses i should take? i WILL take EVERY SINGLE COURSE of your's - so what courses should one start with? obviously not calculus 3 first lol... what is the path i should take? if possible, please tell !
5 Are you still working on your precalc course?
I went to high school with someone who went to community college and transferred to Yale. She was really smart, an “A” student in high school and assume the same in college.
I know someone who was very smart and a disciplined student who was a top student in high school (I can’t vouch all A’s, but would be surprised if not.) She went to community college and transferred to Yale.
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Great insight!
I'm revisiting pre algebra right now. The beauty is coming upon areas of struggle and realizing my pain threshold for getting stuff wrong and then coming back to master it.
Hey I really love your videos! And also since I am a native speaker of spanish I can help you a little with this, you see "El que madruga dios le ayuda" means the same thing you actually wanted to say, "madruga" comes from "madrugada" that is really early in the morning, so it means something like "He who wakes up early, God blesses him"
I just completed part one of Matrix sheet 30 questions in 5 hours I feel very good doing it ❤😊
Thanks Math Sorcerer. You videos are helping me.
I just hope now that I'll build speed in solving questions 😅
Awesome!
@@TheMathSorcerer I saw Your Video And You Said That You made silly mistakes and you solve the matrix chapter till 2 am.
At that time it was 6:30 PM I decided to also do matrix till 2am but completed all at 12AM 😁
I thought I was only struggling from these problems. But watching your videos help he realise that everyone goes through these problems who try. I'm able to solve one question in 6-10 mins I have to reduce the speed to 1-3 mins. Can you suggest me what should I do?
I was highly anxious about the math requirements to obtain my BS is Computer Science.
I told my advisor about my anxiety about it, and she, being a Mathematics PhD shared with me the most helpful secret. “Math is hard, read the text book until you understand each example.”
I received a dual degree in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science. I just had to work at Math every day. No magic, just consistent and focused pressure I put into the task.
I made the mistake of giving up in frustration with linear algebra because I was earning mediocre grades. Much later I found out the problem centered on practicing the problems, filling in gaps of background, and concentrating on the concepts instead of trying to memorize everything. It explained why I twice hit the 99 percentile in high school aptitude tests, yet college left me in the woods, not only in math, but in other subjects as well. I am visual, so the computer graphics which didn't exist in 1977 help me see those problems, but that was never the only reason for the frustration.
So often it's the kind of things we feel we have to overlearn that we end up getting better at, while natural strengths can atrophy from lack of conscious effort.
I switched from physics to applied math after my first year because I fell in love with the challenge. When I took abstract algebra and advanced calc I couldn't navigate the proofs so I would memorize the fifty we could potentially see on an exam hoping to get two of the three correct. I was in a constant state of studying, it wasn't uncommon to practice 10hrs a day for a week leading up to a test. I'd get up at midnight the morning of an exam trying to squeeze out as much time as possible. Needless to say I'm not naturally blessed, it was the greatest struggle of my life getting through undergrad, but I can almost guarantee none of my classmates outworked me.
My professors would make sure that NONE of the problems solved during lecture or any other activity during the course would show up on the exam. It would always be from some obscure looked over chapter in the course material.
Thanks for your inspiration.
I just passed the GED math Perrin on 12-10-24 I like math but I struggle to understand watching your videos helped me to love it. Thank you ☺️
I was bad at math in school because I never did homework. Motor bikes were more fun. But I got by. In my thirties I had to do a math course as a prerequisite for advanced computer training. I discovered that I loved the math more than the coding. I became a math devourer. I loved doing any math problem I could find. It was like a challenge. The more difficult the better. In the end I was disappointed if I didn't get 100% on tests and exams. I was made math lecturer at my college.
I wanna learn algebra what should I start with
The bottom line in a generalized way is a person must have an interest in the subject manner and even better a growing interest (like Watson Fulks wrote) - without that you become ignorant and un-caring - "Don't know - Don't case" and that is OK for many subjects and issues.
Besides - Like Ringo Starr sang "You gotta pay your dues, if you want play the blues, and know IT DON'T COME EASY"
Isn't this the truth of everything? As Jack Sheldon, the great jazz trumpeter and vocalist was asked: "Why do you still practice?" His career spanned 60 years.
He said: "I'm just trying to get good."
A great observation for sure.
The biggest practical lie is this ... seeing a beautiful calculation, derivation, or proof. And thinking the author did it on this one clean page. In actuality, many pieces of paper, eraser marks, sweat, tears, etc finally comes together. Only then, a clean sheet of paper comes out with the work on it...and it was done without effort and hard work and as if you knew it all along. For example, it took Bernoulli more than 3 pages in an engineering book to come up with his equation for fluids.
A "B" in Physics is pretty excellent; take it from an Old Physics Major.
You definitely need some aptitude to be really good at maths even at a high school level. But aptitude is usually associated with interest in the subject, because the student finds what he is doing naturally rewarding rather than frustrating. As a result, people with innate aptitude are naturally motivated to do the work. So the real question is how to make it interesting for the others, so that they are motivated to do the work even without the natural aptitude. Fortunately there are tools these days - like GeoGebra - which can turn the roots of a parametric polynomial into an engaging animation and make it clear what the equation is really doing, to take a simple example.
I did maths and theoretical physics at university in the early Eighties and don't really remember too much about them. But I now find myself about to start tutoring high school students in maths. It's fascinating to me to discover these modern visualisation and symbolic calculation tools and think about how I could use them to get unmotivated students more engaged with the subject.
I think that it's just easier to think: Ohh, that person is gifted or lucky etc. instead of comprehending how much suffering, how many failings lie behind someone's success. Math is no exception
"You 'll get it, you are ..." spoken to auditorium did upload task, whatever was it. But it's up to you as a good mathematician to offload it at your will if it is not for profit or other benefit.
Definitely a good point that your morning mind is your best mind. If you have some mentally demanding task that you care about, do it then.
I've been constructing a family Library for the last 8 years its full of subjects from Music, to Law, religion, and Maths and Physics; I'm currently enjoying Music, have a rough idea for my library and am content with its overall shape, I have 6 months learning guitar and I already know that it's not going to last forever eventually I will be content with my overall skills at that moment I know I will want to try my hand at Maths; I'm 28 years old if I play guitar for 10 years I know I will be 38, I'll travel for 2 years, at 40 I'm going to sit down and revisit Euclid and probably start with Set theory and discrete mathematics before I start algebra 1 and 2. My question is am I stupid to consider a math journey at 40? Is 40 too old to be a beginner?
9:00 you have to be gifted to become one of the top 250 in the world. But if thats not what you aim to reach, as long as you do not have serious problems, you can learn math at the level u want to
Sir could you please tell me a math keyboard app from which I can write math symbols like 3^2n on youtube thumbnail?
I'm naturally good at math because I've got a high spacial intelligence. I can easily visualize the numbers in my head and do calculations. When I was in high school I only took Algebra 1. After I high school, I went to college and had to take a math class above Algebra 2 so I could transfer to the University of California Santa Barbara. I skipped over Algebra 2 to save myself from having to go to college another semester. I took a statistics class that had a prerequisite of Algebra 2 and passed it. It was a big hurdle for me and I did have to study every day for hours because it was hard, I didn't have the Algebra 2 prerequisite, and it was fast paced because I took it during summer school.
5:29 in italian southern dialect is "aiutati che Dio t'aiuta". Something like "start by doing so God will send an Hand"
When you buy a math book always get one with lots of problems at the end of each chapter. And answers. Schaum Outline series worked best for me. I remember Murray R. Spiegel fondly. Laplace Transforms and Fourier Analysis.
In high-school i wasn't good enough for maths,,but i was doing physics at the time though i found that am doing good in physics than mathematics and its not too good for me and I was judge negatively...but later when I joined college ,,I am an engineering student and am good again for college maths than before in high-school and I don't know what is going on
how do you get better at topology
those who seems to be naturally gifted in math are those who enjoy working on puzzles and figuring out how to solve them. They see the value of solving the problem that's why they are persistent until they arrive at satisfiable answer. They eventually become adept in mathematical thinking as more and more problems they solve.
All math is approximation.. The answer is determination. I found the fundamental truth!
Dominion (2018)
Success = Talent * Effort^Focus + Random Events.
Effort and Focus are in our control.
Bunch of words meant to, what? Convince people there's no such thing as natural ability for math? Ok, make that argument for the millionth time, I mean it's been made before, and millions of times before, but that won't stop some kids in math class from almost instantaneously grasping something that other kids need to work for weeks on.
Even those two, clearly gifted, young girls who put forward those trigonometry based proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, admit that it wasn't close to easy for them.
Nice
Math's biggest lie is telling us the circle constant is pi instead of tau.
If you teach youre one of the best.
Your great this!!!
Math is a language. I suggest you treat it as such.
They still hatining
The gratest matematicians worked the hardest to sharpen there brains and thoughts, for example Einstein worked even years on some problems just understand and solve them, and he did never give up, meanwhile we do. Maybe we have to try harder.
I don't what to do i have a lot of free time but i can't bring my self to study math what is wrong with me
Maybe just start with something simple and maybe just do 1 or 2 problems a day and soon you will do more and more and get onto more advanced and fun topics
A bit off-topic, but, why did I think that the word "lie" means the biggest theme of "Lie algebra" before watching the video???
???.... YOU just told the biggest math lie ... that talent is defined as the capacity to learn instead of the capacity to learn QUICKLY!
Can I get some help with my dyscalculia? Anybody?
Its how many classes your taking. I'd watch the stock market until I was sick. This one guy was taking nine classes at once, maybe your super healthy like this guy was. But most of the time I just sat in the cafteria and worked on assignments. I'd get all mad and go ask why the problem was wrong. Draw up a superheterodyne satellite, oh that's why they glow. But one day, these physics kids all thought it would be cool to cheat. The oddest thing was I'd make oddball mistakes. Like in Calculus II, I really didn't know any better until I took it twice, but in physics I'd just mess up alot. This amplified when I went from JC to UC. Always for children, pizza shapes cafteria, climb a hill everywhere you go. The teacher would talk to maybe 15 students at the most, just dullard bewilderment everywhere. I'd dream I was late for face painting psychology for a month, "where is your Debrah classic for show and tell?" But in combinations I learned something from them, out of brutality of nothing learned. Its how many zeros you can store in a combination is how much information you can store in a combination. Thus the eigenvalue, jacobean, and free space, exists because you can define a set space regardless of a sets size. Which all their classes refute, its just a wrapper. Well money wasted I figure.
It started off with the proof that things are inherently 3D, so I knew linear algebra was a scam, how do you put 899 blocks in 1201 blocks, this is a shambego, but now, behold, stuff is only 3D. So I started by asking how many combinations store two zero's? Its easy, seven sets store a chiral radix. You can store a padded radix, but this just gravitational, it has no need to curl or interact. Just each number 1-7 goes in a abc place. So for much larger numbers; 64-4096-16777216, you have infinite zeros storage in (a-(b-(-c(-d)))))= e. So, there's a billion little graduate ideas in there, but first you'd be stuck in closure ville.
We can always count on your candor character, math sourcerer
I'm so afraid of math.
I love this message. I also think math people can get a little too Sheldon Cooper when it comes to explaining things. People can stop using “Let us hypothesize” or “and thus we see“ when making a video about basic Taylor Series. I think math people can forget how accessible most concepts are especially in this technical age.
In the world there are three type of people... Those who know how to count, and those who can't 😅
Part of me always gets enraged whenever the topic of "talent" is brought up. Any discussion about "talent" or "giftedness" not only detracts from the amount of work required for people to excel in these subjects, but it is also highly discouraging to people who do not feel as if they are "NaTuRaLlY gIfTeD" (whatever the hell that means)-that people who do not possess certain "gifts" are genetically incapable of becoming experts in certain fields-that people who are not "talented" are unable to become the best of the best in a certain field. Also, the conflation of "talent" and "intelligence" makes it appear as if intelligence is some fixed quantity when it clearly is not! We should stop venerating talent and instead venerate hard work!
It is in people's genetic makeup that they have a greater propensity to be better at certain areas. Stop being enraged by this fact.
Talent exists but it's only a propensity for capabilities. Computer hardware limits how fast a benchmark can run but improved computer software using a superior algorithm can indeed run faster. Humans are no different from computing machinery in this respect.
Everyone can usually do better, stronger, and faster with practice but everyone's limit differs, based upon their particular constitution.
Practice doesn't make perfect but it can absolutely get one much closer.
10:05, me in differential equations. I fear I may fail guys please pray for me
Coming from 66 years of so called life carrying the name Matthew punctuated by a BA in math from1980, and a working life in the financial services industry where arithmetic is not considered an art, let me say this about that.
Geometry and the one arithmetic equation that defines every geometric shape down to the line or arc made up of the points a line of length one is composed of no matter what the one is defined as in base 60, if you do not
Have a triangular grip on the arithmetic of the circle you can use all the broken ideas you like to approximate any possible substitute for the one system made up of one equation that contains the final solution.
Makes no difference if the solution needing solving is a crystal clear solid liquid plasmatic gas or imagined molecular Geometry built around Hydrogen or Helium the two two component compounds found at
The bottom of every school bag every school book and every school student attempting to understand fire and where fire burns to provide heat and where fire burns houses that penguins never dream of down to the cold hard ground you imagine is below you when we are flying through the air at a speed the students in the third grade near you could calculate if they are not lost in the nonsense looking to escape the mind of someone wandering aimlessless after being indoctrinated into the school of calculost by some lost soul taught to ignore the power of a triangle and a line used as a lever and a fulcrum to open the hood of this planetary system and find the engine
That hides just out of plane sight in the corners of arcs only exposed by squaring two and three with glee see...
Anyone can learn a foreign language, but not everyone will be a good writer. I would say it's the same with math.
Awards in geometry ... passed algebra.
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This is soo irrational
There may be no math gift but I surely have the curse of suckling at math :/
it's not a lie man, some people are tuned into the world of mathematics. there are some wild people out there. for some people it's easier for them to get started and for others it's like trying to climb up a stiff ass cliff (like me)
You do need a basic average IQ to begin with. Hard work plus talent...just like everything.
We also have that saying in Portuguese: "Deus ajuda quem cedo madruga" but I always took it to mean that God helps those who wake up early (madrugar)
Nonsens.
Math doesn't lie.
Math has no lies.
Math has not a minor or bigger
lie.
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i love how you write G-s😁
If you pay attention to detail you'll find its a specific step by step anylitical line of measure phylosphy across all feilds, dicipline, markets you name it that power that be is always detouring or deflecting from such basic logic where you see it and it's like most obvious source of solution this is has been developed by design of a good 150 year process and it sacrifices something like excersize the minds practicing maths in routine because low and behold independent self sufficient actors wouldn't need to buy quick fix go/nogo generalized realitive tools to fill in the blanks.
These loose sloppy generalizations has value in all feilds and industry they just come in different forms.
These in maths dumb you down and by pass facts so that you have vulnerability or clutches.
Even better your a robot mystified in maths banging your head against the wall in numbers when it's far better resources and answers to the very problem you seek.
You're a great mathematician 😂
Hi math sorcerer, "Al que madruga dios lo ayuda" means, "he who wakes up early God helps him", madrugar means waking up really early.
Anyone with an average IQ, and will put in the work, is perfectly capable of doing college level math, all the way through Calc IV (Vector Calculus)
It is necessary to avoid the hereditary perspective. Academic development is not controlled by genes.
I was doing mental math when I was young, but then got sideswiped by Common Core in high school, and was left relying on a calculator for some years before I got fed up and started drilling like crazy. It's only addition and subtraction for now, but I can somewhat reliably handle the hundreds without a sheet of paper, which will help with not having to touch a calculator at all given some additional time.
Math is just hard. As a math and physics major I can tell you that even hard work won't get a lot of people very far in high maths. You can get better but there is a limit
I couldn't agree more with this 😢
Never blame the student. Its up to the teacher to find a way to get the message across.
Wow, i didn't know you dropped put to play basketball! It's so hard to reconcile you with younger you