Are you good at math?
>>54136869
what are you, some kind of nerd?
If I was I wouldn't be on /g/.
>>54136869
Terrible only know highschool shit
good enough to know that p=np
>>54136923
nah fuck off f am
>>54136869
i was awful in high school but i managed it to approve all my math courses to get my CS degree. it is useful but im rlly far away from beign good at it.
yes test me
How does one get good at math? Currently at Algebra 1 level
>>54137037
how much could a woodcuck cuck if a woodcuck could cuck wood
No, I am like:
echo 48/9|bc
>>54137040
you are good if you solve problems, you can solve problems once you have once figured out how to solve problems you are currently not a problem solver as you have not yet realized how to approach this problem and are instead asking others to solve this problem for you you fucking problem child
>>54137059
Can one learn to solve problems or do you have to be a born problem solver?
>>54137074
fuck, that's pretty good
>>54137096
I don't know but it was funny to type problem bunch of times
>>54136869
The answer would be complex, because I remember fucking nothing but I was top on my class at high school.
>>54137106
yeah I'm actually so good there's not even a high enough level work for me so the government just pays me to not work, pretty fucking amazing
>>54136869
I really wish I had paid attention more in highschool. Why is it that most math teachers suck at making math interesting? It really is an issue that needs addressing.
The one time I thought I was going to do something novel in math class was a semester exam. Surprisingly, I had taken notes on the particular formula that 2 questions were worth half the grade. Since I was also learning Fortran I figured I'd write a small program to answer the questions, thus proving I knew the material and was able to apply it. Guess what, I failed. Never bothered since. Programming would be a great way to make math an applicable knowledge. Hell, carpentry/framing makes use of shit tons of math, but I've never found a teacher that could apply it and thus teach it beyond a book. FUCK I hate that shit!
>>54136923
Why didn't you collect your Fields medal yet?
>>54137037
Calculate the fourier cosine series of y=x from -1 to +1.
Is this math even real or just put up for show?
>>54136869
You get better with the years, used to have to go to summer school for math every year in high school but managed to pass every math course in uni without much problems.
>>54137166
>Calculate the fourier cosine series of y=x from -1 to +1.
Your mom.
>>54137096
How To Solve It
by Polya
>>54137239
Thanks
>>54137355
no, it's for people who like programming
>>54137376
his point stands
>>54137155
Same story here for me. All my math teachers were fucking terrible and they put the fear of doing and studying math in me. They always made it look far more obscure and intimidating than it actually is until one year in 8th grade (yurop) I got a fantastic math teacher that was passionate about it, he made me love problem solving and geometry so much I got top grades and managed to get into a higher class branch. Thanks to him I managed to sort of get by with terrible math grades until I gratuated high school.
If you fuck with kids foundations in math, it's basically over for them for the rest of their lives.
I was always passionate about tech and physics since a kid but because I feared mathematics I never went anywhere and in university I ended up studying law led by that same fear.
>>54137431
for me I started getting perfect scores in every test when the teacher literally explained the shit just exactly once and gave us millions of papers to solve with no help, only told to try again if you couldn't handle it, the teacher was turbo autistic and straight forward too
I prefer the no bullshit approach
>>54137355
Why do engineers and mathematicians feel the need to be so elitist?
>>54137355
literally your average construction worker can become an engineer over here
>>54136869
Yes
>>54137481
That sounds lazy as fuck, you might as well not have a teacher and just research everything.
>>54137355
What the fuck does that picture have <50 pixels?
>>54137585
well that's how I learn so yes and yes he was lazy as fuck
>>54136869
Yeah! I'm a CS student and I'm super epic at math :)
Graph theory, proof by induction, proof by contradiction...
I'm pretty well versed in mathematics
Data Structures might as well be a math class :P
>>54137585
>>54137481
It is but it's also the most effective way to git gud at math
By doing a fuckton of math
>>54137702
You're very right but the teacher could still participate in the fuckton of maths instead of throwing problems at them with one discussion and saying "God speed!"
I feel this is detrimental to the general public and is a reason why math scores are shit in a majority of nations, specifically the US.
>>54137355
>>54137355
>>54137781
>tfw wanted to do mathematics and philosophy
19th century kids :^[
>>54137239
>by Polya
I could take whatever this man wrote with eyes closed.
He was a great mathematician and a brilliant teacher.
My personal anecdote: the best, most communicative and able to pass his intuition, professor that I've ever had, was a student of Polya.
>>54137781
This picture always makes me laugh because of how inaccurate it truly is, it's clear it was written by someone with little to no real-world knowledge.
More importantly what scale are they using to determine the tiers? Difficulty? Money made? Contribution to society?
>>54137749
I'm in Finland though and that teacher was the fucking boss
we went trough every problem as well with him once everyone had something figured out
he did all of those millions of papers for us and got everyone to at least try instead of getting spoon fed shit, very old school
>>54137825
See that post makes it sound more appealing, originally it sounded like, "Gloss over this problem, we did it once so here's 100 problems pertaining to it gl."
What you clarified sounds much better than spoon feeding. For example, I took a financial math class pertaining to annuities, simple and compound interest, and future values (some other bs was included like graph theory). The hardest part was inputting correct formulas and variables into a calculator, which wasn't and isn't hard.
Well, I can't count on one hand how many times we had dates extended or homework/tests/projects changed because of people complaining it was too hard. My teacher was all too happy to comply and it was one of the shittiest math classes I've ever taken because it was so...fucking...SLOW and pandered to clowns too lazy to do some equations on their own. We weren't able to even cover all the course materials which I was fucking excited for because I appreciate the knowledge of properly financing my damn life.
>>54137939
yeah what I meant was that first he'd explain how it fundamentally works and after that he'd just go trough the problems without any bullshit information, so the students could compare their shit to his
>mother was a F student in math
>father was F student in math
>sister was F student in math
>I'm a B student
they think I'm "gifted" but really I'm stupid as a brick I just sweated my balls off to get that petty B
I won a few math contests in my high school days and competed against poo in loos at a statewide level.
Was invited to a national contest for some bullshit club called SkillsUSA or VICA but didn't go because I was poor and also the people in that club were studying to get jobs without extra education. Real low tier shit for which you'd go to a ITT Tech or something
>>54137579
t. pajeet
Any tips for doing quick arithmetic with 2 or 3 digit numbers in your head?
>>54138113
it's not hard to get a B even if your parents don't know shit what the fuck
>>54136923
that only holds if 1 = n
Math is pretty easy once you get into it. I managed to learn and understand most things up to differential equations in about a year time. I'd like to learn more but I'm too busy with other classes now to really invest a lot of time in maths right now.
>>54138191
Or if p=0.
>>54138173
practice a lot or use a calculator
>>54138191
That joke never gets old, holy shit, lmaoing my ass off here
>>54138170
funny meme but what I wrote is true
I... I don't really know
I used to be good in (our equivalent of) high school. Always top of class, had NO PROBLEM at all, literally could do all exercises in class without preparing. BUT that was probably due to "big fish little pond". I went to a school that focused on languages (lol), so most other students were grills who - with some exceptions - didn't understand shit (no offence, but that's how it was)
Then I started CS (inb4 meme) and suddenly I had a pretty hard time (as expected in retrospective, but well) as now my collegues weren't girls studying French but autists and nerds who spend 20 hours per day on the computer or doing maths.
But while I usually take longer than most people to grasp most concepts in lectures/tutorials, for some reason I'm still very good at tests, while even the ones who usually understand everything during the lectures come up with a grade worse than me. I don't really understand it at this point, but well.
But now I can understand why all the grills back then said "our math teacher sux!!!! this is why I'm so bad at math". I don't complain, but often I have the feeling that at college even simple concepts are explained in an overly complicated fashion to promote the academical bullshittery of the lecturer instead of actually learning shit, leaving me to study books for hours on end to finally find out that it wasn't so hard after all.
Even at my 3rd year now, I'm still very confused about college math at this point.
>>54138173
the only thing I and most know is breaking stuff down to easy calculations and adding them back together later
154x125
100x100+50x20+4x5=11020
>>54138319
lamo wrong answer retard
>>54136869
Yeah, I enjoy it more than programming I think. Programming is just a means to an end for me, and to be honest I hate the culture. Between "HTML CODER NINJA JAVASCRIPT START-UP PYTHON FRAMEWORK DISRUPTION UBER FOR BIG DATA" bullshit and the hyper-butthurt/perpetually-argumentative "politically incorrect" debate-me types, there's just nothing good to be had. Plus, everyone in the field has a chip on their shoulder, and it's usually about mathematics. If it comes up that you're a mathematician or know more math than high-school calculus you're guaranteed to have at least half a dozen people crawl out of the woodwork to tell you how math is bullshit academics or "not real"/"not provable".
It's like the only social capital among programmers is cleverness, and they can't handle that others might know more about a different field than they do. Programming is fun. Dealing with programmers isn't.
>>54138319
Dude wtf are you doing
>>54138319
t-that's not how it works
>>54138350
>math is bullshit academics or "not real"/"not provable"
people actually think that?
Nah, I suck, like at pretty much everything else.
>>54138067
See, that would be fine if the teacher could also present real world applications for said math. Don't tell me it's all academic because there are tons of fields that use math in ways most kids just don't understand because they're not working in those fields. Take algebra. My brother only learned it on the job in construction. I knew some of what he was talking about because I had more schooling than him, but he knew it better because he used it daily in real world situations. Without that kind of relationship between theory and application I just slept through math classes.
>>54138375
shit I mean
100x154+20x154+5x154
>>54138319
>>54138425
Just do 154 * 5 * 5 * 5 mongoloid
>>54138416
well I'll reveal even more crucial information, it was a school for construction workers, absolutely shit tier, I know, but the problems themselves were something I encounter daily and they were associated with some stupid little ''bob needs this but he need to know how much his car can handle'' type shit and not just written as equations to solve
>>54138483
See, real world application even if it is shit tier. I've never been too good at word problems either but at least they give some kind of context. None of that stuff really translates well to 2D drawings and abstract word problems on paper though. I'm pretty sure it's the hands on approach and knowledge that if you fuck this up someone might die that really gets the learning juices flowing. I've been thinking about going into construction just so I could learn math again.
>>54137781
>Talking shit about Classics
>>54137168
lmao
>>54138399
You don't suck at knowing your faults, so it's clear you don't suck at everything anon.
