[ SECRET POST #2450 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2450 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Dude, I suck at math and I like it...wait, does this happen often?

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I nearly failed several of my math courses in college (my other major helped me graduate), and actually failed one, but I still came out adoring math. The high level stuff is elegant and mindblowing, a pure kind of beauty, and I appreciate it the same way I'd appreciate great poetry. I feel really sad that middle/high school algebra is what most people think of as "math" and that schools have taught so many people to hate "math".

Re: Dude, I suck at math and I like it...wait, does this happen often?

[nyxelestia]

To be honest, the kind of math I was taught in high school, I hate. The kind of math classes I liked were a thorough and deeply involved in the topics though they typically covered a shallower range, but also kind of rare for math classes (and I still got low grades in, in part because I didn't have the 'foundation' of lower math skills to build up on). I actually got into an argument over my dad with this, in which he talked about a lot of the processes and underlying concepts and I had to ask what the fuck he was talking about, and explained that "math" was "memorize this equation for this problem", and the closest 'real world applications' were word problems no one would ever do in real life. (Even one of my math teachers said outright that unless we went on to mathematic fields, we were wasting our time in that class because we weren't learning anything important, it was just a state requirement.)

It wasn't until I started reading stuff on my own about things like submolecular physics and high-concept stuff that I started to care about math. Also, the first time I realized math could be something other than what I was learning in school at the time. Ironically enough, I had a math class where I often knew more about certain specific topics within the subject than the teacher and knew well enough about the class to help the teacher out, yet I still failed because I didn't do the homework, which was basically 2-3 hours of busy work and part of the reason I hated math in the first place. Most math teachers gave a shit ton of homework that no one ever bothered to do because it took too long; we all just waited until a resident math nerd who loved doing it was done, then copied it. I asked one teacher, even, how we were supposed to study for our classes if we were getting so much homework, and she actually said "...you're not". *headdesk*