I'm Good at Math but I Make Silly Mistakes
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- I'm Good at Math but I Make Silly Mistakes. This happens to most people. Does it happen to you? How to you deal with it? Do you have any strategies for this? Please leave any comments or questions in the comment section below.
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silly mistakes really weigh heavy on you, sometimes you get so frustrated that you're in tears and start doubting your abilities
Totally get that, I had my first calc exam and got a 70%. I was so disappointed bc I had a study schedule in place, studied for hours and it felt awful seeing the score. When I looked back on the answer key I realized most of the points were due to silly mistakes. Id argue that’s a worse feeling than not knowing the material because all that work, and I knew the concepts, only to fail in the last push. Hopefully I can fix those next time around
You are true bro🎉
and the worst part is that the kids who were worse than you start doing good and the teacher just keeps praising them and discouraging us
So real 🥲
I aced every test so far yet today I made two silly mistakes and cried for an hour 😢
Seriously, math sorcerer's doin some serious sorcery here. Where does he pull these super relatable topics out of? Just amazes me everytime!
That's so true
Couldn't agree more
Yeah he is kinda my favorite youtuber now
“Sometimes it just takes time” so true, sometimes we’re just not mentally equipped to handle the problem in the moment, but through hours of experience and gaining wisdom, we eventually hit that next level. Patience is key for development
For sure!
@@TheMathSorcerer Thanks ❤
Something I noticed in myself is that I would most often make these mistakes when I was too confident in the math. I would be able to see where the solution was going to come from, and I would be so focused on getting to the solution that I would stop paying attention to what I was writing. Numbers from steps further down that I was visualizing would creep out onto the paper, or I'd stop paying attention to the signs, or I would apply a theorem only partially and leave too much out so the proof wasn't obvious anymore.
I also noticed that the more I felt pressured to finish in a certain amount of time, the more likely I would be to have this sort of math ADHD where my mind would be chasing solutions and not paying attention to the process of getting to them.
If you want my reaching explanation, I think a lot of mathematics "maturity" comes from having spent enough time slowly perusing a textbook and painstakingly working out solutions by hand while being forced to ignore everything else that you, indirectly, teach your mind to focus on single task. It's a sort of therapy for attention disorders or deficits. You refine that focus over the years of reading and mistakes and agony to the point that it becomes scalpel-sharp and then, without realizing it, you're suddenly "good" at mathematics.
Ya that makes a lot of sense, we hyperfocus hard on math when working through it so yeah, makes Sense I agree. Good comment thank you!!
I can relate so much to that you're saying
Bruh I thought I was alone I thought about this but you put my thoughts into words 😂
Literally the exact same with me
I relate to this so much
Another problem is simply being messy and rushing. Writing more slowly and being neat goes a long way. Also half the time I don't check for errors because I can't be bothered. If your writing is neat enough then you will be excited to read over and admire it, to catch those silly mistakes 😄
That doesn't solve it
@@chiekeuzodinma3254it does lil mate
It's amazing that you as a Math teacher struggled with matrices..I love linear algebra but when it comes to the computations I feel like a 8 year old (although they might be able to correctly calculate 3-4, which I have learnt I'm not reliably able to do)..So now I use a calculator to manually do the calculations...
oh yeah man everyone has to learn somewhere/sometime! Nobody is born knowing how to add 2 + 2:)
What I've learned from Dotson, is that professors actually like to hear when the book tortures you and you can't figure it out.
Either sadistically to laugh at you for your incompetence, or to helpfully guide you during office hours to an easy approach.
Hopefully the later and not the former, but the former happens way too often.
Ay another andrew dotson fan! I second that as that advice even worked with some of my professors lol
To my mind, i think the most practical way to avoid silly mistakes is looking back to spot the silly mistakes you proprably slipped up. I used to do that every tests in middle school and because of that every solution i wrote in the exam is perfect the examiner can’t deduct points from me, but now in high school i hardly have enough time to do the problems let alone looking back and checking it. By some unknown reasons, i now always make some mistakes somewhere. For example, yesterday i sat the school’s excellent students exam and i missed 6,5/20 points due to not processing deeply the task. I regret not reviewing the solid geometry solution i wrote. I made mistake of drawing it right at the beginning and spend 1 hour doing it for nothing.
I think your definition of mathematical maturity is pretty much on point.
thx:)
I can relate to this so much, I’m in my first year and sometimes I can spend hours on just one single problem. Like you said there is really no shortcut beside practicing more and be patient with the process. One thing I found really useful is to really think about deeply of the mistake you made, and try to repeat the exercise again line by line in your head by always reminding yourself of that error and ask yourself why you didn’t get it right. I personally find that it helps me to be more cautious the next time I run into a similar problem and as a result ending up with less mistakes.
Losing points because of these silly mistakes is the worst. Professors are ruthless here, losing 1/10 of my grade due to a silly mistake is the worst. If I do more, I lose even more...
Once I was solving a complex integral and a squared z was turned into a 2 in the next step 😭.
In such aweful moments, where I feel like I have failed to represent who I really am, I remember how poor people never even get a CHANCE to prove themselves. I got a chance, they didn't. And I calm myself down. Life is unfair, but it can always be even more unfair. Let's enjoy everything that is well and we mistakenly take for granted.
@@abraruralam3534 Comparing your situation with worse ones is not a healthy coping mechanism. It's better to accept you have failed. University is free to attend in my country, so yeah. Life is not unfair. If I make a mistake, it is my fault and I can live with that. Sure, there are worse situations, but that doesn't make me feel better lol
I love these motivational videos! Keep 'em coming!
I remember making a mistake on a homework set in quantum mechanics, and I looked over it for something like 8 hours and couldn't find it. It was a simple series of problems but somehow I was obtaining impossibly difficult algebraic equations. Frustrated almost to the point of crying, I went to the professor and asked him to find my mistake. He spotted it in 30 seconds. I had somehow forgotten to take the alternating sum when expanding a determinant in cofactors, a stupid, silly mistake! And he told me something I'll never forget: "In life, you have to learn to find your own mistakes and fix them. This is what it's like to do research; there may only be a handful of specialists in your subfield capable of spotting your mistakes in the world, and they won't always catch them." It left a big impression on me. That advice has transcended math for me, as I keep telling myself to backpedal if necessary and work on my flaws, so that down the road I can be successful.
I took a big step in my life at 25 y.o and went to the university of applied sciences, software engineering in January this year and lately I've been struggling a lot with math as the subjects just gets harder and harder. My highest level of education was vocational school which I graduated from in 2016, back then my motivation was so low that I did not give a damn about learning anything but today it's totally the opposite. One year and two months ago I started to learn math so that I could bear with it in the school and oh boy how low my skill level was, I had no idea how fraction numbers work, no idea how to calculate the most basic equations, in geometry, square area was the only calculation I knew, no idea what pi, square root, sin/cos/tan is for etc... 1 year and 2 moths after to this day I'm learning linear algebra!
I understand the math concepts pretty fast and I think math is fun but I just do all sorts of stupid mistakes and by then my motivation goes down and I throw my laptop out of the window (not really), at that point I just feel like this is not for me, I'm too stupid, I cant, I give up. However this video gave me huge motivation boost and reminded that it just takes time to learn these things :D
Thank you so much!
Thanks for another insightful and relatable video! I have gotten so many exams back that I expected 100s on and was ashamed to see my not perfect score because lo-and-behold I put the square root of four as FOUR. I’ve learned to take as much time as possible on exams going over each small computation again after I have gone through it the first time. I have found and fixed many small mistakes because of this tactic.
Ya I sometimes would do the exam multiple times, if you are fast enough it's possible. Sometimes it's not possible though, depends on the class and how ready you are I guess.
Same here!!!! Last night I was working out just a quadratic equation book and I had problems. The author position the problems in ways I never seen. I got so upset. Lol. I am going to take a stab at it while I am just now learning calculus. So basically I am studying algebra, trig and calculus. I think the best way is to prove the answer is right after we are done. Although frustrating.
You got this!
Mistakes are a part of me
I am a mistake
@@phunkii1527 oof lol
They are a part of everyone
You’re the Bob Ross of mathematics. Thank you so much for this video!
You are welcome!
Problem for me is a make simple basic elementary school mistakes while I do the harder concepts pretty well (assuming I learned them good enough lol)
I always think that's a good problem to have a guess, better than the other way around!! 👍
Thank you for these videos, and these points of view, coming from a person who’s failed trig and college algebra 3 times, I feel like I’m inadequate and there’s something seriously wrong with me, but when I see people like you struggled as well in your own ways I feel like I can pick myself up and keep going if I just put more time to it
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I am a Year 12 Maths student from the UK and throughout the year my grades flactuated up and down and maths was the subject I was the most stressed for ; this is why I always watched your videos because I loved maths and I always practised but due to stress, anxiety and careless mistakes I didn't get the grades I wanted. For my end of year exam however I got 89% (which is an A* at our school and is the most important grade to determine predictions for universities ) and yes I could have got 92% if I gave my answer to 3 dp instead of 5dp, if i didn't change my sign from + to - midway through my working out , if I had payed attention to small details like exactly which part of the journey we had to draw the velocity/time graph for . At the end of the day I have accepted that i will make those silly mistakes and I can only reduce them by constantly practising and doing timed papers . Even if it's a relatively simple calculation I would write it out so that even a Year 10 student can understand what's going on in my paper. I also felt bad for not doing enough revision like the 2 weeks before the exam but my advice for maths students is that if you have been working hard throughout the year and understood the concepts , don't worry (still do some practise papers!) as I have learned none of your hard work will go to waste , even if you don't see the results instantly :)
So glad I came across your channel, your videos have helped me simply not feel like an overrun failure haha. I'm an adult student and have had to relearn math from the ground up (starting with pre-college algebra class) I never took anything beyond algebra in high school. Next semester I will be in Calc 3, watching your videos have helped me with my perspective and I want to keep going further with math. There are students from STEM highschool programs who run circles around me but as you have said it takes "time". Thanks and keep up the great videos!
That's awesome ! It's so cool to see that you came such a long way, I also started in pre algebra. Good stuff💪
Hey, man, do you have any advice for someone like me? I started university last year (I am 18) and its a complete failiure 🤦. I seem to be too slow to follow the lectures and i have a problem to understand my teachers. I dont know what to do. I thought about learning by myself with books and by paying a tutor for help with the theory and practice. Since you had a slow start It may help me. Thanks
@@arturonavarropovedano2396 The single most important thing is doing problems. Math is a fun but frustrating mistress. You have to struggle to get better. So whatever you do when using books don't look at the answer or look at a problem someone else worked out and then say "ok I got it now..." because you won't have it. A tutor can be incredibly helpful and I would highly recommend getting one (check if your school offers free tutoring). Last bit of advice is to just try and stay positive. Keep working and don't give up you are only 18, by 20 I had failed algebra three times (convinced I could solve problems after seeing solutions...smh).
@@jh5560 Thank you for taking the time yo answer. I know the feeling of looking at the solution before working It out. It sometimes happen, I Will approach It the way you say It. You suggested yo see if i can get free tutoring un my school, that is a good idea too. Thanks and keep Up the work👊
Thank you so much for this Video… my math Tutor told me i make i make careless mistakes and should See the doctor… I‘m totale Fine, except sometimes i make these careless mistakes that i know how to solve… this Video really cheered me up
What I do is as I go through homework problems, I check my answers and mark where I went wrong with a pen. Then when I'm studying for a test I review the mistakes that I made and make a mental effort not to make those mistakes again. I can't be sure but I think it's working for the most part.
P.S. I have a derivatives test tomorrow and I'm super stressed lol. Hopefully I don't screw this up.
Good luck!
see that would work if i didn't already have 2378324723 pages of notes that barely fit into my folder and I just can't be bothered to look through all of them .
This is me with Mathematical Induction... I’m a 4th year in college and I’m STILL messing up on the intuition for how to do the algebraic manipulation :(
Aww!!
This might help Principle of Mathematical Induction: ruclips.net/p/PLO1y6V1SXjjM2Cnx7JPYSbrvyIf9PT3zL
The way he defined mathematical maturity is so accurate. I could relate to his story about matrices. For me it was learning Trigonometry for the first time in college, and I started in pre-Algebra so I had no idea what I was getting into. Trig knocked me down sooo hard, and I barely got a C in the class. Then all of a sudden a few months later at the end of my pre-Calculus class, we had to do a 2 week review of Trig and suddenly my brain just understood it like it was no big deal, and now Trig is one of my favorite math subjects! All this time I thought I had some kind of mental block, and really all it was was just mathematical maturity that I needed to build. Thanks math sorcerer!
not me self-learning the entire year 1 trig from maths youtubers D: I hope year 2 trig doesn't crush me to powders
Thank you! This will keep me going some more this rainy Friday morning. For me it's Functions that I keep adding or subtracting wrong with. Amazing to know I'm not the only one! And reassuring to remember that picking up new maths isn't nearly as much of a problem.
OH MY GOSH how do you make such relatable videos 😭 to be honest when i read the title of making silly mistakes, the first thing what came up to my mind was finding the inverse of a matrix , because that's what i used to struggle the most in my high school years for getting all the computations right.
Right now I am a math major , and I can confidently sit with a book of proofs and absorb what's written in there. But somewhere I used to feel so dumb as I couldn't always get all the multiplications right back then and spend long hours in it. Now, when I saw your video it motivated me so much.
Thanks a lotttt. Love from India. ❤️
i remember once that i exceled in the class understand all concepts then Mr. Exam comes in and then go like 80 percent which hurts a lot for things you are dedicated for, most of the time you got to make a lot more of hardworking than the thing you want to achieve.
I kept doing careless mistakes smh. But the worst problem is that I always forgot what I learned so I need to go back again to learn it, which consumes a lot of time.😑😞😖
yeah forgetting what you learned before is always an issue for sure
@@TheMathSorcerer it is completely discouraging tbh plus it slows down the progress. I think I've already finished the entire calculus course if I don't forget things.
edward gaming Yeah I hate that. I’m trying to dive into a book on Bessel functions right now but I think I have to go back and review sequences and series from calc 2 first, so I can learn the Frobenius method.
@@jacobharris5894 damn ur way too far man! I hope I can reach that level of maths too.
edward gaming I’m sure you can. It just takes time.
This is me!!! I’m good at math, but I always have to repeat the problem because I always get the signs wrong or even copy the numbers/problems wrong. Really frustrates me….
I would love to see a whole video on the topic of mathematical maturity
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Lmfao I wish I had a teacher that woud say. I KNOOOOOOOOW I forget to put the tail on a radical too!
Instead of 2/10 you forgot to put the tail. Punishing you now will make it so you don't do it later.
That's why I really hope I can bang out a math degree and teach one day. Having struggled, I GET IT!!!
I need to hit the linear algebra texts again, I remember inverse matrix and having troubles on them.
Linear Algebra bothered me so much! Not because it was "abstract" or hard, just the long computations, and lack of clear work area to put it in, made making these mistakes so common.
Then you get super demotivated when you just have an answer and its wrong, but you have no idea where you made it, so you spend like hours redoing the same problem, or trying to follow the monster mess of a work in those cramped matrix spaces to find the algebraic error.
haha yeah
I really do think that it takes time for your brain to get good at something, and that it works in the background while we think we’re not thinking about a problem anymore. You’ll be walking down the street and all of a sudden you completely understand a problem that you were stumped by last week. And you might stop in your tracks and say something out loud with a big smile - and people look at you funny.
As for basic arithmetic I had the same problem after having my brain addled by chemotherapy drugs. I thought I’d never get better, that I’d always make mistakes like 2x3=5 - really stupid! But I got better at it and I can laugh at myself. The only way to get good at something is to just do it. Trust that you’ll get better. You will! Math Sorcerer has been my 'light in the distance', helps me just keep working. I’m so glad I stumbled over his videos. 👍
During the pandemic I literally sat down with and finished 1 and started my second book on DG.
I still make silly mistakes.
The key is going back and fixing them, now, tonight, or tomorrow. But then, when you’re feeling confident deriving the answers to similar problems without reference to the solutions.
This is by no means linear. Rather like exp from [0,1) compared to [1,infinity)
Except you feel like you’re on [0,1) for most t.
Once you master it, it’ll be worth infinite other exercises
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An aspect of mathematical maturity is achieved by regularly detoxifying one's brain. A sober body does this automatically during consecutive sleep cycles at night. Using a bathroom in the morning removes toxins from a body, and a more mature brain ready for mathematics results. Five or six ninety-minute sleep cycles is a good brain usage aide.
Interesting concept I should sleep more hehe.
Inverting matrices is brutal. It's just testing if you can do a hundred addition problems with zero error. So even if you have a tiny error percent, you get the whole inverse wrong
It took me (I'm dead serious) over 10 hours to finish about 25 calculus problems (with a few short breaks to eat and pee lol). I had to look at the examples on almost every problem after getting it wrong the first time and it was almost always a silly, STUPID mistake, like getting the wrong exponent or just multiplying or adding incorrectly. Granted, I was a bit sleep deprived, but I cried pretty hard several times because of how long it was taking for very simple concepts (solving for the derivative). It was excruciatingly exhausting. I'm at least glad I'm not alone but I want it to stop because I know I can do better... I have a test tomorrow. 😭
Thank you so much, I had practised maths a lot and i was very good at it, and I was practising for my exam tomorrow, and I made silly mistakes and I got frustrated.Until I saw this video.Thanks a lot and wish me best of luck for my exams😆
Math Sorcerer, what I love about you is that you were once an ordinary joe like me but what separated you from most others was passion for the subject. That goes to prove that :
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison
I am going to keep pursuing what I am doing with the same dedication and passion and not succumb to insecurity. In fact, please do make a video about combatting insecurity when learning math and why you should not measure your progress based on other students performance.
yes I will! I am still an ordinary joe:)
Thank you!!!
I'm doing it right now. I know how to solve it but because of silly mistakes like misplacing decimal points, my calculations are often wrong. I needed this. I have to keep on practicing.
Just did a test today and i'm so mad i can't understand basic linear inequality. Thank you for the message!
as a student I wouldn't feel too bad if I make silly mistakes as I know that tutors, lecturers, profs also constantly still make mistakes. particularly when writing down solutions to tutorial problems or tests when they are (or at least claim to have been) in a rush when they wrote the solutions.
Oh yeah so many mistakes!!
Thank you bro, i want to go college in maths and i keep doing these "silly mistakes". Im still happy, because im doing good besides it. As u said i will just keep practicing and get good.
But what if I don't have time
Thank you for posting this!
You gave me relief...
Fourier series is also annoying like you do the whole thing right and then realize you got a minus sign wrong.... Thanks for the video this gave me some confidence.
Minor mistakes in math might becould be due to thinking through the problem logic while doing the question that leaves no room for thinking about the algebra.if with mastery you have mastered the logic of the problem,then attention shifts to the basic algebra.
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Often, when you trace your attempt at a solution of an unsolvable problem, there is a place where a plus sign mysteriously turns to minus, or the other way around, for no apparent reason.
And sometimes, this is already part of the misprinted problem in the book...
Mom I found my idol and I love him, thank you so much I'm literally crying 😭😤💗, I gotta stay strong.
For me it's the opposite. The more time I've spent doing the basics, the more likely I am to forget them or mess them up. So I'll spend hours correcting stupid little errors while getting the new stuff correct.
I just came here after fucking up simplistic quiz questions on Khan Academy by providing incorrect +/- signs and incorrectly re-writing my correct solution from paper to the computer. As a 35-year old man I nearly had panic attack and cried because of that. Just as back when I was in school, failing another test due to exactly the same type of mistakes. Its a amazing way to teach oneself low self-confidence. Sigh. Thank You for hearing me, I feel slightly better now. I'll go back to the quiz to enjoy another self-inflicted mental breakdown.
Hey man, awesome video. Im a sophomore in algebra 2 and I am really good at math, but I tend to get a lot of questions wrong and when I look back all the steps in the problem I set up were correct, its just a simple silly flaw at the end of the problem that I didn't add or multiply in the end which gets the whole question wrong. I always type my questions in the calculator after I finished them to check the answers and I always get a different answer and when I go back to double check it would be a simple mistake like adding 5 when I am supposed to be multiplying. It gets me so mad how I'm really good at the tricky word problems and setting up hard equations but I end up getting it wrong just cuz of a silly mistake when im about to get my answer. This video really helps though. I guess I just have to wait and get better.
Yeah you are so right thxs I wish u were my teacher
It's really hard because I am extremely prone to making dumb mistakes. I've been getting back C's on my quizzes even though I know how to do each problem, except that it was X>0 not X
I just learnt to read questions carefully after spending too much time on a problem only to find out they gave me a clue on the question
My teachers always say that after practicing and doing 1000 exercises you begin to understand it better hahaha
It's a matter of dedicating the necessary time
On Monday I had an exam, I was the night before and that same day explaining certain concepts to my classmates, everything was very clear at the time of explaining to others how all this works, later in the exam, I did that problem wrong, I don't know what happened, but at that moment I didn't think correctly and made a silly mistake lmao
However, my explanation was correct, and my classmates did it well, being able to explain and teach concepts to others, helps a lot in addition to knowing the theory and practice
You make a valid point but what if the inverse of a matrix does not exist?
My linear algebra professor pwned my entire class with with a question to find the inverse of an m x n matrix where m and n are not equal. I think i was the only one that got that one right although it haunted me until i got my exam back.
Haha
I have made the silliest of the silly mistakes, and that's why I never get that 100 in Math
I sometimes dont 9 marks of silly mistakes, sometimes 12, sometimes 7, and they're like..addition errors, misunderstanding my handwriting 😂, and the greatest of the greatest...Rat Puppet's special silly mistakes.
Rat Puppet's special silly mistake include doing things like skipping 1, or 2, and even 3 questions accidentally because you're in such a hurry to finish.
Silly mistakes are a really vital part in my math life😂 I'm glad you made this video, very less people have a video on this topic.
And yes, Matrices were always a killer for me, it had super easy problems, but at the calculation part, I did LOTS of silly mistakes!
Oh wow skipping problems hehe , I think I did that a few times,not a good feeling lol
@@TheMathSorcerer it's a terrible feeling!
And I've skipped easy problems 😭😂
@@TheMathSorcerer When I'm solving problems alone, at home, I barely make any silly mistakes.
I guess it's just the pressurising enviornment of the examination... I'm not able to perform well under pressure
Ya you get better at that, at testing taking. With practice you get better.
Lol
I feel like I am so confident and ready on a lot of tests but then I still end up doing something wrong seemingly no matter what bro
the 2*3=8 and the "forgot to read the last sentence of the problem" really hurt
First time I ever found a video so relateable to me.
Woahh thanks a ton
I sat from 10 to 2 am yesterday solving complex numbers, all concepts were right but this frigging silly mistakes
It was so hard to match the answer
Ahhhh
I have a test today
I feel so much better now
Screw it let's do it
THANK YOU MATH SORCERER ! ❤
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I always always always gotta miss something while double integrating 💀 I always forget the limit of integration, matrices too, but I've gotten better at matrices though. It is always during tests though.
I searched this cuz I'm tryna solve this problem too
But base from this, I started to question the curriculum, or the prospectus. Some are really fast learners and some are not. Right now, im having difficulty with mathematical modeling and optimization.
Maybe it would really take me years to master it just as how I mastered algebra in high school. But if that's the case, I guess, the school is at fault for expecting us to study or master differential calculus in only 4 months.
2 day from now, it's my gonna be my finals in calculus... I'll let you guys know if i pass or not
I never make mistakes in calculations anymore, until I do and I spend hours trying to figure it out, the frequency is lower than it used to be but it still happens once every few months and it's miserable.
well I guess the fact that I avoid calculating anything by hand helps
I do the opposite. I make mistakes but when I do they are usually really simple, like dropping a number or a negative sign, so I can catch myself before I finish the problem and backtrack. Sometimes the mistake isn’t easy to find so I just start over but that’s has saved me in tests a lot.
Hahaha
It’s really the harsh timing that gets me in exams because I have to rush and when I re-do the question after the exam I don’t mess up.
Do you have any ideas on how to avoid that ?? I have 3hours to solve questions in my exams and I find it difficult get an answer right in the given time because I tend to make silly mistakes .
You should make a video about those of us that make silly mistakes, are not particularly good , have no business being in a math program but are here anyway :). Matrices by hand are the worst.
you are totally right when you say thing takes time especially in maths.But ,the exam board does not understand this though.
Ya they don't they have to go by correctness in order to compare results
@@TheMathSorcerer sure thing.Im from mauritius and to be honest its because of you i love maths.Love your motivational videos.
man literally what i needed to hear...................... thanks..........................................
Yeah, imagine having food poisoning, throwing up day before two math midterms. Yeah, let's just say I wrote (v/x) > x is v > 2x (instead of x^2). This is exactly the reason why I am moving away from focusing on computational math.
It's true that it takes time. But HOW MUCH TIME? I have been doing these mistakes since 5th grade and I was never able to overcome from it. Now I am in 12th and I have to give JEE exam after 5 months and I'm here fucking up with addition and subtraction.
I also agree with how frustrating it is to solve a long problem like finding an inverse of a matrix and doing some mistake in the solution and then the answer comes wrong.
seriously I was thinking that I am the only person in this world who is still doing mistakes like 2+3 =6 or 2*3 =5 but people even do this in college. It makes you feel so stupid of yourself honestly to do these kind of mistakes in high school or college.
Steven Krantz wrote a book on mathematical maturity. The thing is reading a math book and understanding it to the point of applying it. Especially when the book has zero exercises. That is like the ultimate level of maturity. To get to that point after reading sich types of books is not like learning to drive a car.
Ya that's really intense, Krantz is a great writer. I am curious, what is the book?
@@TheMathSorcerer bookstore.ams.org/spec-72
Thank you😀
It’s painful. One time I had the correct math all the way up until the last calculation and then my 5 turned into a 7. I was off by 2 and got it wrong that hurt
Super helpful! Could you please point me to any resources on how to build mathematical maturity?
Last night I spent hours trying to find out why the 5x5 matrix I reduced was different, and it was just a negative sign
Oh I know that feeling!!
I am high school student and I'm really frustrated with what I am doing. I know the strategies and everything else but i keep messing up. What went wrong? I can't write the question or anything right. Like when I write the question, I mess up the numbers leading to the correct answer of that number but not the actual number. And if I finally write the question correctly, I get half of it and then when I'm working on the working column, boom I accidentally change one digit without knowing. I make atleast 3 mistakes like this each day which meant am doing basically everything wrong. I won't get any marks if I keep on doing this..
Thanks for this inspiring video.Hope my silly mistakes go away with time and practice.
Thanks Sir Isaac Newton. Its really helpful
Where do you teach at
At a local college
Currently struggling rn in accounting and this is hella motivating
The inverse matrix example reminds me of fourier series coefficients, I don’t know how I suddenly can’t do basic integration
You are inspiration
I failed one exam because I lost 20% of potential points simply because of mistakes like forgetting to carry a number or term
Thank you sir
Damn, W teacher! Thing is there is no time start today and work hard.
You are my inspiration. Thank you.
The fact that i looked up this video, exactly while finding inverse of matrices... 💀
I Made a silly mistake today, I had two equations with two variables and I didn't Solve it because I was afraid of operate and get to nowhere (geometry problem)
great video, you gave me some inspiration for a future video!
Awesome! Thank you!
I respect you so much!
Sometimes, a math student needs to take a break (a few hours), from the topic. Then. come back and try to solve the problem. This strategy often works for me. Good luck.
im studying for a calculus exam i have about a month from now, this kind o videos are very helpful, thanks man
good luck!
Watching this, when I have made two silly mistakes in my final math exam.
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You’re wrong.
It’s the struggle.
Then again, what is struggle, but practice & time…
This video shows up when I just gave up on a probabilities chapter.
I am determined, I will get it. just need to give it some time.
Lol.... I have a test in 4 weeks tho.
good luck:)
Man tomorrow is maths exam and here I thought you would give a short trick
It is sooo frustrating.... I swear. I am highly HIGHLY intelligent, more than 95% of the student and it shows in olympiads and classes....but exams are a different thing.
Sir, you earned my sub.
Cool thank you😀
I am sorry to ask in this video, Do you know any website or manual to solutions of undergraduate algebra by Serge Lang?
Thank you
I do not sorry, but maybe someone else knows and they can reply here .