<p>I'd like to know your level of education and what level of mathematics you are still relatively adept at.</p>
<p>I.e. - B.Sc in Mathematics; addition and subtraction, some understanding of algebra.</p>
<p>I hope to see many responses!</p>
<p>not enough to help my 7th grader with pre-algebra:D</p>
<p>BA. I can still do some algebra, can factor like a madwoman. Hate functions and things ds2 is doing in Alg II right now.</p>
<p>Math major here. My DS is in AP Calc A/B and it looks familiar, but…don’t think I’ll be much help!</p>
<p>Math major; I, too, can factor like a madwoman and I’m always the go-to person for solving those puzzles that get passed around that go as follows … “Think of a number, multiply it by blah, divide by blah, add blah, subtract blah, and then you wind up with three digit number. Tell me two of the digits and I’ll tell you what the third was!”</p>
<p>But calc? Fuggetabout it. I do use stats in my work, though.</p>
<p>PG, I dropped calc in college. Aced stats, though! I’m also a go-to person on those kinds of number puzzles.</p>
<p>I took BC Calc in high school, but no math in college. I can do Algebra II-level math now, and a little trig, but that’s about it. When D was taking calculus I looked at her textbook and said “I used to be able to do that?!?”</p>
<p>Another math major undergrad, now a tax lawyer. Still remember arithmetic, algebra, geometry, forget anything beyond basic derivatives and integrals, and then there were those course that I never got the first time around, like topology. S is an applied math major and I swear most of his courses did not exist 35 years ago. What is complex variables, partial differential equations? I remember diff eq, that many many people bombed, but now it is two courses?</p>
<p>Eng major, I can still help my daughters with Calculus, but I think I might have forgotten differential equations and Fourier transforms. I still get very excited solving a tough Geometry problem, at least I know it will help me thwart off dementia.</p>
<p>Like poster #2, I stopped being able to help my kids with their math homework when they hit 7th grade. (I have a B.A. and J.D., but never cared much for math).</p>
<p>MA/ABD in History: I can prepare my taxes, keep my books and figure out basic geometry and read staistical tables. Of course, the language of math has changed so I was completely lost trying to figure out Chicago math by the time my daughter reached 4th grade!</p>
<p>MA and MBA. Took calculus at the age of 38 but don’t remember much. I was able to help S with algebra I but needed to look at old books for II, and geo, and forget the trig or calc. Good thing he has a good teacher.</p>
<p>Non-mathy person here Poli Sci BA and an MBA… through Trig in high school and Stats and Calc in college. I can still do most “stuff” through Algebra 1 and basic Geometry. I was passed up by the kids when they hit Algebra II - I can’t remember a thing.</p>
<p>Took 2 semesters of calculus in college. Don’t even remember why I would even use calculus today. Bio and Chem major. Practicing physician. When assisting with homework I was still good at reading the section and then assisting with problems through about precalc. Luckily, neither D has asked for help with Stats or Calc. </p>
<p>The one type of problem that I never mastered (and still haunts me today) is the one where one train is going X miles an hour and another is going Y miles an hour… I could always work backwards and figure it out, but I never understood or memorized an equation. I hated those problems.</p>
<p>Did fairly well through college Calc I, couldn’t remember enough to help kids in their honors pre-cal classes, much less APCal. I would read a problem and be "Ummm, yeah, I remember learning that… " It would take me 2 hours reading the book to help them with one problem. Not worth it and found other help. We were good to up to that point. background: 2 parents with BS degrees in science.
yeah, that’s always the one that makes us jerk awake at 4 AM dreaming we’re back in 10th grade!</p>
<p>I have a B.S. and a J.D. and can do the kinds of basic math I need. I can prepare taxes, keep my state mandated accounts, balance a checkbook, figure out how many square yards of carpeting, divide restaurant checks and make sure I get the right change from a cashier. My older kids used an integrated math program in H.S. and by then I was not able to help.</p>
<p>BS and JD here. I don’t remember taking calculus but surely as a business major I must have. I can do basic math. That’s it. When my son was in the 4th grade I couldn’t help him. He said, “Did you not take math or something?” H is the PhD engineer and he got stuck with all the math and science assisting. I did English and History.</p>
<p>As a homeschooling parent, I had to do it all up to calc. I use discrete math regularly. My son knows more math than I do know but I can often solve problems faster than he can when they require a lot of planning. In general, he knows more than I do, is faster computationally than I am and can learn new material far faster than I can if I can at all. I do much better in things that require patience and historical background.</p>
<p>BS Nursing…always hated math. took through stats in college, no calc.
Couldn’t really help kids with math after Alg. DH is an engineer so was able to help further but gave up when S1 hit Calc. </p>
<p>I’m really good at figuring percentages in my head …really helps when shopping:)</p>
<p>BS engineering. Don’t remember much that I studied in college, but can usually check the book and offer enough comments to help the kids realize where they made a mistake, even if I couldn’t solve the problem myself. My D didn’t ask for much calculus or stat help, I’ve looked over some trig problems for S recently, and youngest in Alg II often asks me things I can still remember. However, we didn’t have graphing calculators in school! I have no idea how to use those.</p>