<p>This question may appear to be uninteresting at first but when looked at closesly, it's actually a very good question. Personally, I just memorized the concepts. I don't understand math intrinsically. Memorizing is great; However, I'd also like to understand. Anyone has any ideas on how i can do this? What is your method?</p>
<p>I really do understand it. I’m able to apply it later and connect dots as I go further and further into involved math, so I’d say the reasoning behind the methods really do sink in.</p>
<p>From my perspective, you have to understand math in order to do well.
Unless you mean memorizing the formulas, then that’s a different story.</p>
<p>Actually, you can do well without understanding math. One can do a quadratic equation without knowing what the heck it is or what to apply it to.</p>
<p>also, one can do lots of complicated trigonometry without really understanding what the trigonometric functions are, or where the identities come from.</p>
<p>I know, that’s why I said it’s a different story if you don’t understand the formulas. The quadratic equation is a formula.
I also think that it depends on which math you’re taking. For example, memorization gets you by a lot more in Geometry but not so much in Algebra.</p>
<p>In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
- von Neumann</p>
<p>I just memorize the stupid concepts.
I don’t understand anything about it. smh
I hate math.</p>
<p>^Had a bad experience huh?</p>
<p>Yes
-_____-</p>
<p>If you memeorize concepts, then good for you, you can do exercises and pass test etc.
But how about if the problem changed a bit, so that you can’t use the formula just like that? you’ll be screwed</p>
<p>Well I can still do the problems. You just have to use your brain.</p>
<p>Understand. I will be completely lost in questions if I don’t know where a formula came from and why we have it. I need to see the proof in order to use it, other wise I won’t use the formula. It’s like OCD.</p>
<p>^just curious, what about when proof isn’t available yet? Like you learn the product and quotient rule in calc 1, but you need the chain rule from multivariable calculus to prove the rules.</p>
<p>@Ahriana: then you can do exercises and problems, but you dont have a strong foundation. It’s like when you first learn a new word and its meaning, but you don’t have a feel for when it works in text or when it sounds awkward</p>
<p>Oh god. OH GAWD. GO0o)O0o0O0D LAWwwDWdWDdd~!~! I pretty much suck at math but I lo0o0ve English and History. :')</p>
<p>I’m probably the dumbest person in math. I’m the person who complains about it in math class asking “Why do we have to do this? When does this apply in real life?” I pretty much need a freaking teacher by my side for every step of the problem. I always make simple miscalculations when it comes to like 1+5, 4+4, I don’t ever catch it until I get my paper back. Stupid, I know. I pretty much failed math when it came to Geometry. With a bad teacher, bad habits, I took Geometry for two years and I still don’t know anything about it. Sohcahtoa? Yeah… no. I can’t remember any formulas or connect the dots or whatever. Math is something where a C is like an A+ for me. I look at math and I just want to faint and draw sad faces all over the page. The End.</p>
<p>I’ve debated about getting tutored in math but it’s too late now LOL.</p>
<p>I’ve never really understood what it means for something to be a math concept.</p>
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<p>Huh? The product rule follows from the definition of the derivative, and the quotient rule is just a special case of the product rule. You don’t need the chain rule, and certainly not the multivariable to chain rule to prove either.</p>
<p>I should add though that the proof of the product rule has nothing to do with its application, so it would be weird to not be able to use it.</p>
<p>The product and quotient rules are easily proved using the the limit definition, it just isn’t obvious:</p>
<p>[Proof</a> of the Product Rule](<a href=“http://math.ucsd.edu/~wgarner/math20a/prodrule.htm]Proof”>http://math.ucsd.edu/~wgarner/math20a/prodrule.htm)</p>
<p>The adding and subtracting of the same thing makes it hard to notice.</p>
<p>I did not understand Calculus AB at all. I just memorized everything and just did it. (Got a 5 LOL).
But next year, I took Physics C, Statistics, and Calculus BC. I could clearly understand calculus. I’m so glad I took these courses this year.</p>
<p>I just memorize ):
It’s really bad.
that’s why I have a B in math.
Maybe I’ll start using Khan Academy.</p>