<p>^^^^
Same, I did well in Geometry, but it was terribly boring. This year in Alg. 2 Honors, I have a 92 year old teacher (I asked her age on the first day of school) who is the best explainer/teacher of math I have ever had. Yes, I remember graphing piecewise functions (fun), but we're on quadratic functions now. I LOVE Algebra 2!</p>
<p>math sucks, it's official. but i especially hated geometric proofs from back in freshman year...</p>
<p>Yeah, seriously. Proofs were so dumb. Why the hell did we have to learn them anyways? They're not even on the act/sat/satii's. FFS.</p>
<p>I'm taking geometry right now.. it's actually not that bad but I think Alg 1 and 2 are easier... Geometry proofs aren't exactly that great. My average last quarter was a sucky 96 (better than I expected though) :)</p>
<p>math makes me want to kill myself.</p>
<p>there, I said it. :-(</p>
<p>I think that a big reason for my dislike of math is the lack of friendly and personable math teachers! I am okay at math, but the teachers always seem so cold and disconnected.</p>
<p>How could you hate math? It's AWESOME having things actually make sense and not be completely clear-cut yet not completely subjective.</p>
<p>math sucks balls
yes thats right i have an effing D in math B1 honors im going to go kill myself now cuz it so damn hard</p>
<p>Hi guys,
I know the feeling of having a bad math teacher. They can either make the subject fun or painfully difficult. The nice aspect about taking math classes at a community college is that you could pick your professors for that subject. Ratemyprofessors.com is a great site to know about the teachers' reputation. When I took College Algebra, I had a difficult time with the class. Quite an uninspiring experience. Then I took up the yearlong Pre-Calculus class with a very good professor who explains the material clearly. So if I pass the Trigonometry portion of the class, then I can finally enroll in Calculus I by next semester.</p>
<p>I do know for a fact the Calculus I will transfer into the upper-division of any 4-year college. That's why I want to enroll in the class. At least this way I have more options to enroll in classes that requires at least an understanding of that subject.</p>
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Yeah, seriously. Proofs were so dumb. Why the hell did we have to learn them anyways? They're not even on the act/sat/satii's. FFS.
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<p>The proofs you do in Geometry suck. Real proofs don't.</p>
<p>i used to like math til i got to math b.. which is like proofs and nonsense.. like we never use numbers.. and i seriously doubt that i'm ever going to use any of it in my life.. we should review subtraction or something bc i cant even do simple subtraction without a calculator.. cause i'll actually use subtraction in my life. and i'm tutoring someone in math.. and that makes me hate math even more</p>
<p>I despise math. I have had great teachers and I just don't like it. More than that. I truly do hate it.</p>
<p>You describe it very eloquently, jaime, but...what you say is so cool is exactly what I don't like. Math is unquestionably true, yes. So there's nothing left to be discovered, nothing to be explored. It's limited in its own way, because it's not a forum for expression; it's a world of rules, and rules only. </p>
<p>English is all about change, discovery, beauty, and expression. Its arbitrariness (word? hmmm...) is what makes it so incredible. There is something in literature for everyone. There is a word for everything in existence, and a blend of those individual words, those syllables, can create something of unquestionale beauty and power.</p>
<p>But that's, of course, just my opinion. :)</p>
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Math is unquestionably true, yes. So there's nothing left to be discovered, nothing to be explored
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I am afraid I must disagree, southeasttitan. There is plenty we don't know in mathematics. For example, until 1995 nobody knew whether Fermat's Last Theorem was true or not (many may have suspected that it was true, as it turns out that it was, but even then we didn't know what the proof was).</p>
<p>In fact, there are 6 currently unsolved problems, called the Millennium</a> Prize Problems, which are considered so important that they have a one million dollar prize attached to them for a correct solution. These aren't the only unsolved problems, of course, only the most notable.</p>
<p>New mathematical discoveries aren't limited to proving or disproving old conjectures. Anybody can also make new conjectures. New kinds of mathematics can be developed, like Newton and Leibniz did with the calculus or as Bolyai and Lobachevsky did with hyperbolic geometry. Please keep in mind these aren't just the discoveries of some dead white males; new kinds of mathematics can still be invented, if one can look at things in a valid way nobody else yet has.</p>
<p>It's kind of like writing a book. Even if we know all the words and their meanings, someone can always come along and think of a new way of combining them to make meaning and writing a new book. The difference is, any literate person can write a book, and because of the arbitrariness of english you cannot objectively declare it bad, even if most top persons of the field think it so. By contrast, developing anything new in mathematics usually takes a considerable amount of inborn genius, years of mathematical training, and lots of hard work. AND it can be objectively checked by the mathematical community whether new contributions are valid or a load of bunk.</p>
<p>lol… that doesnt work in our class. our teacher doesnt understand what he is teaching, 95% of the time he messes up his explaination. The text book doesnt work because it sucks and only has questions, and the questions are WAY too easy. Our questions where written by a former teacher who now works at AOPS and published a book on competion math. So most of us just ask our parents… they like all have degrees in math and understand it way better</p>
<p>i LOVE my teacher. i hate algebra 2. not everyone has to be gotdamn smacking good at math, so i’ll just leave all that stuff to people who wanna do it for their majors/jobs.</p>
<p>I agree, math is terrible. I prefer mathematics.</p>
<p>All math is boring until you get to calculus. Then it’s just beautiful.</p>
<p>^You are beautiful.</p>
<p>Marry me?</p>
<p>Truth.</p>
<p>I utterly despise math. I really do. Pre Calc, Intro to Calc, Calc, AP Calc… no thank you. In senior year, college algebra here I come (dreading that too).</p>
<p>All that advanced math just to go back to algebra? What a waste… </p>
<p>@mathsciencedude: Alas, I am much too young for marriage.</p>