ItWasWritten
Superstar
So ...
For you ...
20+20=04???
Instead of 2.30 a gallon at the gas station you see 30.20 cents ??
Why is math hard for the general populace
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So ...
For you ...
20+20=04???
Instead of 2.30 a gallon at the gas station you see 30.20 cents ??
O.T.I.S.
Veteran
Math is frustrating to some... Its like a puzzle...
Like a rubics cube... Full of different variations and ways to solve a problem BUT hard to remember the rules.
I like math because I understood it and was taught simple and easy ways to understand it. Like i was teaching my neice a simple way to solve a problem and my sister got mad saying "thats not the way they want them to solve it"...
And i was like so what... She got the same answer right?
Only thing i never cared about was that graphing bullshyt. I swear most of math seems useless but basic math is used in everyday situations...
Like for example, i had to start doing timesheets. I had gone MONTHS without completing a timesheet because honestly, i didnt care. Didnt care about overtime, no one said shyt so i was like
...
Then i got hit up last week to complete all my time sheets for the past 4 months by monday and my schedule is already ridiculous and doesn't match well with the software they use. But i figured out a basic formula on my lunch break and knocked that shyt out in like an hour
Like a rubics cube... Full of different variations and ways to solve a problem BUT hard to remember the rules.
I like math because I understood it and was taught simple and easy ways to understand it. Like i was teaching my neice a simple way to solve a problem and my sister got mad saying "thats not the way they want them to solve it"...
And i was like so what... She got the same answer right?
Only thing i never cared about was that graphing bullshyt. I swear most of math seems useless but basic math is used in everyday situations...
Like for example, i had to start doing timesheets. I had gone MONTHS without completing a timesheet because honestly, i didnt care. Didnt care about overtime, no one said shyt so i was like
...Then i got hit up last week to complete all my time sheets for the past 4 months by monday and my schedule is already ridiculous and doesn't match well with the software they use. But i figured out a basic formula on my lunch break and knocked that shyt out in like an hour
NBA Youngbreh
DaDumbWay
Most people are functional retards breh
Elementary Teachers are usually those who majored in language, social sciences, etc. because they sucked at math. 
Have these same people teach your kid math at the most fundamental levels.
Have these same people teach your kid math at the most fundamental levels.
Shut up nerd 
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the symptoms of Dyscalculia are on a sliding scale, I'm at the low end of it so I dont have it that bad I can still count money and pay my bills. I dont see numbers backwards or anything like that
the symptoms of Dyscalculia are on a sliding scale, I'm at the low end of it so I dont have it that bad I can still count money and pay my bills. I dont see numbers backwards or anything like that
Quiet Magician
Superstar
Elementary Teachers are usually those who majored in language, social sciences, etc. because they sucked at math.
Have these same people teach your kid math at the most fundamental levels.
One of the dumbest posts I ever seen on here and that is saying something.
What do you mean? Everything just started to Click?
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
I was trying to explain this to a coworker the other day. He said he hates math, i said "if existence was a video game, math would be like the wireframe design of it". he was like "i see what you're trying to say, but i still think it's gay lol".
You're right about the bolded. It's frustrating a bit
On some other shyt, you can map out someone's character by how they feel about math
BaldingSoHard
Veteran
More like I started to see mathematics in the real world.
When I'd see a car accelerate, I'd see the kinematic equation.
Whenever I'd watch football, I'd note that the football obeys the principal of uniform parabolic motion.
Using a microwave, I'd think about the rate of heat transfer to the food based on it's water content and the heat capacity of water.
shyt like that. And then once you see how that shyt applies to every day life, conceptually, the rest is just arithmetic.
I actually wish I was better in math because quantum physics fascinates me.
What was your tipping point?
feelosofer
#ninergang
Because once you get past basic algrebra (especially in the inner city) the quality of teacher takes a nosedive.
Moose_Greyjoy
I DO Not Sow
Because the population has become accustomed to the "Im horrible at math lol" saying and they are ok with it
Imagine if people said "Im horrible at reading lol" and they were ok with that also
Imagine if people said "Im horrible at reading lol" and they were ok with that also
AJaRuleStan
All Star
The American Schooling system has really regressed in the last 60 years in terms of standards and teaching styles. In point, you can graduate HS with terrible math skills which limits the incentive for ppl to work hard at being proficient at math.
Teachers fail at making the argument to their students why the concepts behind mathematically thinking should be valued and how it relates back to general problem solving skills.
Teachers fail at making the argument to their students why the concepts behind mathematically thinking should be valued and how it relates back to general problem solving skills.