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.
@@whisperingskeleton 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
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.
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
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
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
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
@@LuminousWhispers11Yep, 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.
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 😭
Fr, we're studying calculus and they still don't know how to simplify an expression or factorize.
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.
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 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
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 RUclips in 2 days I've done this numerous times. RUclips 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
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.
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
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
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?
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
Basic is always important 👌
"I know I'm strong because I've been weak"
-avicii
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
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
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!
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...
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
Parents:must be because of that damn phone
It's true though
In this case, yeah it can be
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.
no cuz same 😭
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.
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 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 😂
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.
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.
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.
The background music and video presentation are dope🔥🔥🔥
Got any idea what the background is?
Of course fundamentals are key! They’re the foundation for everything else you do in that subject
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.
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 man's a chad for adding that clip from the "you didn't have to cut me off" meme
No one talked about the “you didnt have to cut me off” scene in the video
You didn't have to cuuut me oooooof
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.
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 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.
He just described my entire experience with math
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
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.
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
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
I used to be so bad at mathematics. About three years ago, I decided to study seriously all the basics of algebra and it was a game changer: now I'm the top of my class (I don't know about other students' grades because of privacy), and I can read math books pretty easily (still hard but I can understand the main concepts).
I'm proud of myself. If you're reading this, please take some of your time to improve your math skills, even if you find it useless.
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
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.
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
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 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.
Basically you cant skip any steps in maths
I’m good at math and confident at doing it
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.
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
You nailed it 👍👍 that’s what happened to me but I restudied math from scratch and improved so much.
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.
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
The building of human knowledge is so high that its foundation are too far to see.
It has been noticed by many that math still wouldn't answer it's own problems to date
I recently figured this out at 21 years old. I recently started learning math again step by step to see where it gets hard. Surprisingly, I've been keeping up with everything including what was hard for me back in high school. The main issue is that new lessons are basically a continuation of old ones and since i didn't learn those, I sucked at everything that came after.
Me who’s smartest kid in class:
Hmm so I can’t get sick or get an vacation.
Same.
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.
I wish that they would do something about that
I see this all the time among my peers. They don’t have a grasp on the fundamental concepts of algebra. They get by in algebra classes by merely memorizing stuff, but this narrows their view and prevents them from truly understanding these concepts that would then allow them to use them as a tool instead of a way to regurgitate memorized information
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
Y’know I did miss 60 or more days of kindergarten-
You can't build a skyscraper without foundations
And maybe the Euler - Bernoulli beam theory. That theory helped build the Eiffel Tower! Physics works!
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.
The thing is, this concept doesn't apply to only maths, but other subjects as well. Such as chemistry e.t.c
As soon as I started practicing maths instead of memorising it, it changed a lot for me. This is some genuine advice
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
This is so true, i had a terrible math teacher in my first 3 years in high school and it carried for another 2 years until i relearned basics and concepts and i found my passion about applied science
I agree with this 100% because in my teaching career I found that students who are good in mental maths are better in different areas of mathematics.
This hits so hard. I used to be very good at math in middle school. I understood it on a deeper level, there was no concept that made no sense to me. I was able to memorize every formula and have no trouble solving problems. I scored the highest score in my whole school on the final math exam. But then, when high school started, the pandemic had also started. Months of online school, paired with many other factors caused by the whole situation made me go from excellent to almost comepletely null. It felt like I could not keep up with all the new high school concepts, and soon enough I lost interest. The 9th, 10th and 11th grade went by and math was almost completely foreign to me at this point. But, I then realized that I would not get anywhere if things kept on going this way. I started separately re-learning everything from the start, and also paying a teacher to explain it all to me in private. Slowly but surely, I started getting back on track. In the present, I am preparing for my final high school exam. I feel a lot more confident than I could have ever hoped to. I'm not at the level I was before the pandemic yet, but it is much better :) wish the best to everyone
I was in Elementary School and was great at maths.
I it was a favourite subject of mine.
Then I got into Middle School.
I got bullied by someone and was not so keen on School anymore.
And I wasn't learning that often, because of it.
Then I got my first ever F in School.
It was I math and it left me a permanent scar in school.
I was trying to get back with the learning progress and slowly came back. Then came the pandemic.
It hit me not only hard in basis of School, but also hit me emotionally.
I ended up with depressive episodes and had mostly not even the will to do anything.
In the last half year of the 10th grade, I wasn't present at school for 36 days. I did get through and now I am at High School where things are getting much better.
My teacher is better to explain things and the new school I'm at, has a year of repeat, meaning you learn things from 9th and 10th grade again, which is good for me as I wasn't present at most times.
I still hate maths to it's core and sometimes can't see logic in some tasks.
That's basically my history with maths.
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"
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.
Sorry for bothering you, have a cookie! 🍪
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.
Imo it depends on the teachers and if they have enough time to explain how the formula themselves was created and why its useful instead of just deadbrain memorising them
Yes I’m currently struggling because unlike most people I had terrible parenting growing up I basically raised myself thus making me miss a lot of school. I definitely understand the concepts of math but I’ve had to teach myself as an adult basic math for this reason and play catch up.
This is really true. Basically if you understand what happens in an equation you can slove harder questions because you know why you use it and when to use it. You can also do some changes according to the question. So try to understand math rather than using it because the teacher said so.
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.
this is incredibly true, i used to go to school in mexico and we were learning 1st grade (i didnt get it AT ALL) then when i went to the US and had to redo 1st grade, everything made sense, now ive always been top of my class and im learning calculus four years early!
To be honest I believe math is just a genuine talent to have. A normal person who isn't good at math would obviously understand one method in one way, then it comes to exercises and test. I know math is a practical thing to do, however I don't understand how I barely pass when I understand 70% of my work in an exercise book but when it comes to test, I just blank out. I am actually meant to take math literacy and even if I did I still feel like it is too soon to give up or I just can't give up even if I am terribly bad. My 9th grade math was good but 10th is downhill
Yes. I am actually going through a trigonometry course right now on khan academy, then Linear algebra, solely for game development.
Trigonometry was an area that I didn't fully grasp when I took precalc in my junior year of HS, I took calc bc the next year, and It was easy, mainly because I studied anytime they gave us new information in calc. I felt motivated, my teacher was good, but when they re introduced trig into our calc concepts, I struggled. And even into college when I retook calc1 to make sure I had a solid understanding, then I dropped out of school for money/time reasons.
But Now that I am doing this Trigonometry course, when I watched this short I really couldn't agree more man. I completely understand everything I am digesting, If I had missed a single lesson the rest wouldn't fully make sense.
And thats the thing, now when I feel confused, I jump at that feeling, I even look for extra rescourses outside of khan academy to better understand the topic that confused me.
But thats not how it was in school for me. Alot of times I felt like I was so lost It seemed like my questions would be stupid questions.
Its nice to see a video like this, and other comments with similar experiences. Math is a weird subject that stacks on previous years from elementary school upward. Its not like other subjects that have their (mostly) seperate arcs or lessons.
When I was young my teacher herself professed to be “bad at math”. My education distilled down to memorizing equations and signs without any of the context and logic. I was very hyperactive as a child too so it was difficult for me to sit still and apply myself to the more abstract concepts in school. As a young man I avoided math like the plague in higher education and had no ambition for understanding the subject matter but only sought to pass with a minimum grade.
Now, later in my life, I am trying to understand computer languages, operations, and the relationship to the hardware. It has become very apparent to me that math is the foundation of code and programming. While not strictly necessary to know the math behind the languages to code and write software programs, I don’t see how I could ever be truly expert at it without a thorough understanding of the mathematics involved. So here I am again math, hopefully this go around will be better.
Genetics definitely play a role. I keep missing math class but always catch up above the class regardless, but I also got my basics down, so who knows.
absolutely agree, when youre younger these concepts are more easily absorbed. When i was a child i was pretty fast and multiplication, not division. i hated going to school, and i missed various days due to an injury as well. i returned to school late, missing lectures on division. I was being introduced to expressions, and i just didn't feel like doing it. My grades fell, i never really regarded fundmantals, i believed i was an idiot. I grew up going to middle and high, and never taught myself the fundmantals, i am 18 now and mastering math. And i can confidently say, while it may be LOTS of new vocbulary, it's generally lots of time and work. As long as you want it, it will happen. I felt very unmotivated, but i pushed and learned. Now i ENJOY learning!
Just described my life i was always excited to go to math classes and somewhere around high-school I lost track it was minor at first and then got worse overtime and somehow I still managed to get to college (in science) but now I truly feel my lack of fundamental math skills and it’s quite overwhelming.
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.
I finish things last second, but if i tried, i would be top of the class because i adapt and learn faster than most
I remember not paying attention to maths class in my first years of primary school because I thought it was boring. Some maths concepts do truly fascinate me, but I think that’s the biggest thing that caused me to be “bad” at maths. Because in principle I’m good at maths, but it’s complicated
I myself am an example of this
Earlier when Pandemic occured , a lockdown in our country led to Online Classes where i used to skip maths classes thinking i was good at it but that was the first time we were introduced to Algebra and i the person who was sometime the best in Calculus start failing because of Algebra
But things now are much better cause in these 2 years i have catched upon the world again
RUclips is a great for this i completed my whole 11th,12th syllabus much before my college and revised my concept there
A friend of mine was basically a genius when little kid, she learn how to read by her own when she was just 2 years old. Unfortunately she was extremely poor when little kid, family was no supportive, lot of problems and also when 7 years old she had a math teacher who was abusive and bully her in front of everyone several time for her poorness. Sad story, today she learn any topic really quickly, language, history and this kind of thing, but math and steam she have a big psycological block, sad story