I Really Screwed Myself Over...

[Exia 00]

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School is coming to a close and I'm busy with exams and such. I haven't brawled in a week cause I've been cramming and preparing for exams. I'm doing well in every coarse I have... except for math...

I hate to make excuses but it feels like I don't have the mentality for math. It seems like everything is just formulas (applying formulas to problems is easy as hell lol) The only thing I don't like is that math doesn't leave room for creativity. It's just "do this and that's how it's done". It's so **** boring...

I don't know what it is to be honest. (I blame street fighter D: ) Ever since that game came out, I've been playing non stop. I put my homework aside to make time for improving my SFIV game... and now I'm screwed. If I do bad on the exam, I could potentially fail the coarse (which means no smash/SF tourneys this summer...) I'm studying as hard as I can but I was wondering if anyone has some tips that can help me. I'm really trying my best... I don't want to go to summer school

 

[finalark]

I was never good at math. So I only passed my math exam by the skin of my teeth. Sorry to hear about that, if I were you I'd just study my balls off and hope that it never happens again.

 

[Exia 00]

I was never good at math. So I only passed my math exam by the skin of my teeth. Sorry to hear about that, if I were you I'd just study my balls off and hope that it never happens again.

Ya, that's all I've been doing. I don't plan on sleeping any time soon...

I might have forgot to mention that my math exam is tomorrow...

 

[Garquille14]

Math is fun once you realize everything can be turned into math. Even music!

Or it was to me at least.

I find that I really like the feeling of math when it falls together into place. Similar to the first time I pushed a button on a computer and the disk tray came out just like that. And then pushed it again and it went in, just like that.

Anyways, take a look at problems you know how to do and break them down. Look at each step and how you get to your answer. Not only -how- you get to your answer, but why each step makes works the way it does and understand why. Then move on to a problem you're not too familiar with and do the same thing. It always falls together, and there's always a reasonable explanation for an answer.

 

[Exia 00]

Math is fun once you realize everything can be turned into math. Even music!

Or it was to me at least.

I find that I really like the feeling of math when it falls together into place. Similar to the first time I pushed a button on a computer and the disk tray came out just like that. And then pushed it again and it went in, just like that.

Anyways, take a look at problems you know how to do and break them down. Look at each step and how you get to your answer. Not only -how- you get to your answer, but why each step makes works the way it does and understand why. Then move on to a problem you're not too familiar with and do the same thing. It always falls together, and there's always a reasonable explanation for an answer.

Sounds like a good plan. One thing that I found myself doing a lot is asking myself "why the hell am I doing this" When I don't come up with an answer, I get really confused. Things are coming together slowly. I doubt I can master 8 units in a couple hours but every bit helps I guess. I'll try your method rather than cramming everything I see.

 

[PhoenixoKaZe]

I think about something else, when I do boring math, it`s gets fun for me when I get it, when I don`t I just sing songs in my head while doing boring mathmatical equations/formulas lol xD

 

[Mardyke]

Math is fun once you realize everything can be turned into math. Even music!

Or it was to me at least.

I find that I really like the feeling of math when it falls together into place. Similar to the first time I pushed a button on a computer and the disk tray came out just like that. And then pushed it again and it went in, just like that.

Anyways, take a look at problems you know how to do and break them down. Look at each step and how you get to your answer. Not only -how- you get to your answer, but why each step makes works the way it does and understand why. Then move on to a problem you're not too familiar with and do the same thing. It always falls together, and there's always a reasonable explanation for an answer.

Garquille has said it pretty much best. I suffer the same problem with maths. What you need are two things:

• Creativity. Maths isn't actually about learning those formulas, it's about applying them to anything. That's the creativity aspect of it, the one you need to watch out for, as the real maths questions are the ones that don't just wait for you to slot in a memorised formula.
  
• Practise. Do maths puzzles a lot, and do them often. It'll be a lot of work to remember them, but in my experience this is the best way.

Hang in there now, it's not impossible.

 

[Red Arremer]

I remember back in the day when I was school, I was horrible at math. My teachers always were so demanding and didn't help me at all. Then when I got into higher school (I think you can compare our higher schools to college somehow), I got a new professor who taught me how to correctly work out math.

It's basically the system Garquille posted.

That said, I skyrocketed my grades in math after I started learning like that, and started to love math. So I can support it, since it really works. :x

 

[ANTi_]

Math ain't ****, you better show em who's boss.

 

[Megavitamins]

What course are you taking? If you're taking algebra, literally 99% of the crap can be solved w/ subsituting in, and specific formulas. Know the distance formula, slope formula, and midpoint for sure. If you say exactly what you're trying to learn it makes it alot easier for us to help lol

 

[Exia 00]

It's an exam so it contained all of the units we learned.

Well, it was a bit easier than I anticipated. I would hope that I am safe, but only time will tell. There is no point in complaining. lol

Next week Thursday I get my marks back, I'll just have to wait until then... but for now...


BRAWL!

 

[Lythium]

I hope you did okay on your exam. When I took the provincial exam for the twelfth grade, at least a third of the problems we hadn't even learned.

My math teacher was a jerk.

 

[Super_Sonic8677]

Hope you passed Sakurai. ^^;

 

[Katapultar]

Do you go ask for help from people? Surely there are people who can and are willing to help you, because thats what teachers are there for. Seeing a maths teacher could help you if there are specific things you are stuck on, because it can be hard, a lot of the questions look the same and all. You probably just need a reminder from a teacher (Who is helpful) and try to practice. I guess this affects you a lot and hopefully the things on the blog will help you

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

It sucks not knowing math. I cried in 4th when I saw this problem 20 x 12 = and I was the bad*** who rarly saw a full week of school and the 2nd best at math. Now I do the math in my head uber fast and fail because I don't know how to show my work. You gotta hate/love math

 

[Johnknight1]

My 11th grade geometry teacher's class was terrible. It was right after lunch, too. I swear everytime you entered the classroom all the happiness in your life was sucked out of your soul. She had the creepy stalker voice....that was quiet. Couldn't hear her, she thought you were a robot, & she NEVER repeated herself. Anytime anybody forgot anything she insulted the said person. I tried the 1st two weeks, but I was failing my other 2 classes because of it. It was harder than the other 2 combined-and they were AP Spanish & AP US History! XD

All that EVER happened in that class was her talking, some kid bragging about his guitar hero skills in order to get a girl who already had a boyfriend, some kid who talked about StarCraft a lot, my friend hitting on some hot girl even though she had a boyfriend & he had agirlfrined, me & my friends throwing stuff at my teacher, some kid who talked about banging his girlfriend a lot (which by the way she looked like she'd been through a trainwreck-I MEAN IT!), this one girl who talked a lot, this nice quite kid who sucked up a lot, this girl who was Amish until she was 6 talking about the weather & giving people wierd looks, a bunch of not-so-secret paper airplane fights, and the rare occassion that this hot girl from my other class would come in & give something to the teacher (why didn't I hit on her more?).

Actually, that's a lot of stuff! XD But that class still bored my brains out.

[/ends long rant & goes to scare off people...with PINNAPPLES!!!] o_O