<p>History, you just read the book and you understand.
English, you just read the book and you understand. You have people check your essays, and your papers are good.
Science, you analyze what you see, and then you understand.
Math, you read and then you notice how your book makes it even more confusing than before. You have people help, and that doesn't always work. You analyze what you see, but all you see it shapes and numers.</p>
<p>Why is math so tough?</p>
<p>AHHHH</p>
<p>Math is easy, science is easy, history and english... boring, but easy.</p>
<p>But yeah, i like math. Most people don't and i can understand why it is hard for people if you are not interested in something. It's like english to me, easy yes but would much rather take an extra math or science class over it.</p>
<p>Ben.Gundlach: Same here.</p>
<p>math really isnt that tough. You just gotta keep thinking in a straight line and if u hit a point where ur get confused, just track back a few steps and then proceed forward again. In my opinion, english is somewhat difficult because it is not definite (i like definite things).</p>
<p>Everyone thinks I love math and encourages me to be an engineer or mathematician of some sort. I understand math, but somehow I BS it like many people BS English or History. I usually get the questions right with no clue how to do it. I don't like this because come college math, past AP Calc, it won't be so easy. I love science because it's like some math, but not real in-depth math. It's a happy medium, my favorite. English is just boring, same as History especially since you learn the same history over and over. Not to mention, too much math gives massive headaches. I remember my Precalc final. I knew how to do everything. I did the first half well. Then, I was just like, I have a headache and I already have an A, may as well just start guessing answers. I did this and got a freaking 85 or 88 or something around that. It could have been worse though.</p>
<p>Don't worry, math isn't your thing. Many people have trouble with math, but I think one reason that it seems to be more of a problem is because the people that do get it say its easy, which makes those that don't get it think that it is harder than it really is.</p>
<p>Don't worry about it, there are countless jobs where math is not needed or used. For example, you could become the accountant at a large multinational corporation...</p>
<p>Yeah, basically knowing how to do the math from elementary school and early middle school is suffice for most jobs.</p>
<p>math isn't my thing but i was good at it until i hit a wall called Calculus.</p>
<p>i dont find math enjoyable at all. it is built on rules and cold struturing.
on the other hand, i LOVE english/writing because it is so open-ended and flexible.</p>
<p>History, you study like hell and barely pass
English, you can't write an essay and you fail
Math, woot, everything makes sense, it's extremely easy. YAY for math!!!! It makes sense! You can figure out everything you need if you want to....
Some people understand math and do awesome, some people dont understand it and simply memorize how to solve things which will eventually do nothing for them and do welll in school, and others dont understand it and are stupid :)</p>
<p>History/Geography: Read the book, analyze causes and effects, and you do good.
Science: Read the book, take good notes, analyze causes and effects and certain possibilities, and you do good.
English: Pay attention, read what's assigned, be broad-minded, come up with your own theories, and write kick-ass essays.
Math: It varies. I haven't been fed to the jaws of Calculus yet, but I'm very good at Algebra and most of Geometry. It's proofs that waste my time...</p>
<p>Yeah, math is the hardest, in my opinion. It's all about knowing how things work and thinking outside of the box sometimes. That's what I'm weak on. Everyone makes Pre-Cal and Calculus seem like sessions of hell, and I'd like to see how that's like...</p>
<p>Math was never my bag ** until ** I hit Calculus. That was easy.</p>
<p>How many math years do you guys have?</p>
<p>Aside from the usual algebra, geometry and pre-cal stuff, I've done Cal I+II (stopped after some work on infinite series and Taylor polynomials) and am currently doing Linear Algebra, which is a REAL piece of cake.</p>
<p>The more you study, the worse you do...</p>
<p>History, why learn it? It'll just repeat itself.
English, BS Essays.
Psychology...not a science.
Economics, you think you it! But you don't. Either that, or the teacher is just teaching you the direct relationship graph...
Health...all the tests/quizzes are open book, yet it's still your worst subject. Never mind spending 20 min/class chatting. When the test comes, it's not anything you've learned...</p>
<p>Math?
Math?</p>
<p>Do well on everything!
Get 97+ every year without studying.
Do exceptionally well first quarter,
then,
get sick,
awful headache
take midterm,
fail for the first time in ten years of schooling...</p>
<p>lose all faith in math and laugh hysterically...</p>
<p>I'm not kidding =_=;</p>
<p>History, you just read the book and you understand.
-- Not for me. I didn't start understanding until I read USHistory from a TOTALLY differen perspective (a very un-patriotic one lol)</p>
<p>English, you just read the book and you understand. You have people check your essays, and your papers are good.
-- No! you gotta do so much analysising and BSing. It takes a lot of practice to get "good" at my school!</p>
<p>Science, you analyze what you see, and then you understand.
-- Yeah, it's easy except when you get really hard problems. Uh... I'm guessing you don't do any MATH in your science class?? o_O </p>
<p>Math, you read and then you notice how your book makes it even more confusing than before. You have people help, and that doesn't always work. You analyze what you see, but all you see it shapes and numers.
-- I used to be like that. It "doesn't always work" because you're doing something wrong. You have to go back and review everything from the past and practice. Math is logical. The better you are with the basics, the better you are with the more advanced stuff and if something doesn't make sense, you can figure out a different way.</p>
<p>History for me is like a pretty interesting novel.
English is bleh...I can't "think outside the box" enough.
Science depends on the particular subject:
-Bio is terrible. It's all just lots and lots of memorization. And unlike history, dull.
-Chem is okay. Tickles your brain.
-Physics...ah... the manliest of the sciences! Challenges your brain conceptually and technically.</p>
<p>Math is physics wannabe. It's mental gymnastics, but not fun mental gymnastics.</p>
<p>English-Depends on teacher. I had the English teacher from hell sophomore year, and freshman year, well, I was an idiotic freshman. That's why I'm not in honors. Aiming for AP next year. English has never been a hard subject for me, and I'm not a native speaker and I hate reading stuffy books like those written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
History-Easy. Favorite subject-isn't teacher-dependent. Freshman year-inexperienced 22-year-old snotty Brown-Grad teacher from hell. Spoke like he came from the stone age when coherent speech wasn't known to man (someone counted the number of times he uttered the word "um." a whopping 83 in one period). Still did well anyways. I only did badly in history when I got depressed over when my chem grade dropped like stock prices on Sept. 11th. Grade shot up when I dropped out of that chem class from hell. Now in AP US History and very happy with choice. Consistently my best class or close. Only thing I regret is that I chose honors chem (which I dropped out of in the first month or two) over AP Euro History. Oh well, I'll take it next year with AP Econ over a science.
Science: Mostly hate it. Looking forward to skipping science and taking an extra history next year.
Biology-Okay. It's not terrible, I had a really great teacher. Did pretty well in it.
Chemistry-HORRIBLE. I made a dumb adolescent mistake by going into Honors Chem. Got the PharmD teacher from hell. Didn't understand a thing. After my test grade went from 86-57 despite hard work, I dropped out. Regular chem teacher the best out of the three that taught chem. Still did badly. Went to Sylvan, got tutoring, talked to teacher about it, studied with friends, ALL TO NO AVAIL. Then I just found out this august that there is a family history of being bad at chem. Sigh of Relief.
Physics-MORE HORRIBLE THAN CHEM. Teacher is ok, but apparently his brain is still in the stone age when concise speech was not known to man. Book makes it worse. It keeps taking something not too hard and makes it a convoluted mess.
Math: well, I did pretty well in it until I hit a wall called calculus. Calculus teacher from hell sets class up for failure. Gives pop quizzes at whim. 85% of grade dependent on some sort of assessment. Doesn't entertain questions. "If you don't know _____, you shouldn't be in the class." Still digging away at said wall, to no avail.
French: Did very well in French, until I had the French teacher from hell. Digging myself out of a B+ in the class currently.</p>
<p>So, in summary:
English-Great, never hard, unless you get one of those English teachers from hell.
History-Great, always easy, I do really well whether a snotty inexperienced incoherent brown grad or a PhD is my teacher. I love drawing connections between two seemingly irrelevant events, and the fact that it's like a really long book/bedtime story.
Math: Two words=CALCULUS SUCKS.
Science: Bio ok, HATE chem and physics. They are NOT brain-challenging. Whenever I'm in physics class, I can hear the mass murder of my brain cells. Its mind-numbing as hell. I always feel like an idiot after any science class (and when my friends talk about science-I'm in honors math and some of my friends are from that class. They're all in AP some science unfortunately.).</p>
<p>Precalc/calc ARE sessions of hell.</p>
<p>ihateCA, how are chem and physics not challenging if they are your worst/hardest classes?</p>
<p>i think english is harder</p>