<p>hello, people...</p>
<p>MATH = MUSIC</p>
<p>I hate math because it bores me to tears. I can't get through a class without yawning 1000 times. I'm also not very good at it, but I think that's because I'm not interested in it even the tiniest bit.</p>
<p>I love math when I can use it, like when I use it in Physics, and I love statistics, when math is applicable to something I find it incredibly fun (NERD ALERT!!) but when its not, then not so much...</p>
<p>math can be extremely challenging if you step into advanced topics.</p>
<p>I alway had an A in math but then i started real calculus and physics in college. it's not that i don't like it, it doesn't like me</p>
<p>Neutrino, I envy you so badly...</p>
<p>I'm so embarrassed for the American education system.</p>
<p>I feel most people dislike math because it is monotonous</p>
<p>Neutrino,
NYS mathB requires you to do a variety of proofs. Fortunately, they are removing proofs from the exam, which will make most future MathB students very happy.</p>
<p>its very true that math is an art....</p>
<p>some people are born with mathematical talent and creativity, others aren't.</p>
<p>some people enjoy it's beauty, others think that it is a bunch of ugly symbols.</p>
<p>its all a matter of perspective - in the same way that not everyone appreciates a certain form of art, not everyone will appreciate math.</p>
<p>...but i like math :)</p>
<p>i dont like math because i don't feel theres a purpose to it.
i understand taking advanced math classes if you're planning on maybe being a mathematician, engineer, etc, but the average person really isn't going to be using calculus in their life, or if they do then they'll have forgotten it by then
its stupid to make someone who's planning on being an art major take trig just like its stupid to make someone whos planning on being a math major to force them to take art</p>
<p>math uses too many brain cells....</p>
<p>People hate math because society tells us to! The 7th grader who likes math is told by his friends that math isn't cool and then stops doing well. Lawrence Summers tells women that we intrinsically are bad at math and science. </p>
<p>It's an easy thing to hate, math. </p>
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Women perform differently on math tests depending on whether they believe math-related gender differences are determined by genetic or social differences, according to University of British Columbia researchers.</p>
<p>In a paper published in today’s issue of Science magazine, UBC investigators Ilan Dar-Nimrod and Steven Heine explore how women’s math performance is affected by stereotypes that link female underachievement to either genetic or experiential causes.
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<p>I hate math because numbers seem less..alive than words, if that makes any sense.</p>
<p>I actually wrote one of my college essays about this..</p>
<p>I didn't read most of the posts here so hopefully I'm not being redundant :)</p>
<p>I think that a lot of people hate math because of the poor teaching. It's a hard enough subject as it is and having bad teachers compounds the problem. Most of the time, the teachers are so smart that they're incapable of explaining the concepts in simple, every day terms everyone can understand which further perpetrates the cycle of math hate. I finally got an awesome math teacher junior year and everyone loved him even if they stuggled in the class because he was good at teaching it in a way that anyone could understand if they worked at it.</p>
<p>I think the thing about math is that sometimes there aren't any easy ways around a question, and so people get frustrated. Math, like various other subjects, forces you to challenge yourself and really apply yourself. Additionally, it takes more than just memorization of some formulas to be able to use a certain strategy in different types of problems.</p>
<p>Math is, by popular standard, hard. </p>
<p>People fear what is hard. </p>
<p>People hate what they fear.</p>
<p>Such hatred, therefore, only betrays the hater's own ignorance and self-insecurity (see how many people's academic self-esteem has been damaged by math).</p>
<p>I looooooooooooooooooove Math, it's definitely my passion in life and I want a career in it. Maybe research (that might be a stretch, but I'm at least doing some in college).</p>
<p>There's so many things I want to say, from what I've seen other people think on here and from what I myself think. </p>
<p>For one, I love math. I loved numbers when I was younger, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. I know tons of people who say "I liked math until all the numbers disappeared!" Well, that was when it got really interesting to me. Mathematical expressions are so general that when you do exercises you're finding out universal truths each time! </p>
<p>"Math is 'hard.'" I never understood this. I don't think any math is very hard at all. I spend a lot of time tutoring it, and also helping friends with classwork and homework and studying. I can generally make people understand, and when they don't it's as if they're trying not to. Math is logic. People build on Physics, History, Chemistry, Biology by discovery, physical experimentation, and tangible things like that. Mathematicians build up math by thought. It's amazing that you can make so many profound insights by following a chain of thoughts, by verbalizing logic (in a manner of speaking) and seeing where it takes you. It always made me proud to be a math person when I considered that a mathematicians greatest tools are his pen, paper, and mind!</p>
<p>Numbers, I think, are more alive than words. Lots of people think they "exist" somewhere outside of our senses (it's really difficult to comprehend that;I know it sounds a little crazy, but when you think more about the nature of numbers you'll see it's not so simple or clear as it appears at first glance). Whereas words are man-made, have gained their meaning through centuries of practice, and are constantly changing, numbers have a natural meaning of their own. They mean the same thing from language to language. They're indispensable to life.</p>
<p>Someone said math has hardly any uses. I, for one, am more into pure mathematics and so this comment is bull***** to me anyway. But even if I were into applied math, I would still get sick of my classmates whining "What do you **use* this for?!*" There are tons of uses for all of mathematics. Physics and math are extremely closely connected. As a math major, I'm required to take a Physics course (the only other natural science course outside of math). The very high math is used for very complex and profound subjects, such as the nature of the universe (the Poincar</p>
<p>...this thread never dies. it'll go away for what seems like months... and then resurface out of nowhere...</p>
<p>That's good, though, it's a very important topic.</p>
<p>And I've remembered things wanted to say.</p>
<p>People are saying math isn't creative enough for them. They like things that are open-ended, can be interpreted in various ways, and appeals to the senses more than things like computation and one-track-mind work; things like music, art, literature.... This actually hurts my feelings, because it portrays mathematicians as cold, boring people with no familiarity of beauty. The truth is that math is verrrry creative. I have a particular mathematical style, and I can recognize my teachers' and peers' (who are interested in math, at least) styles, too. It's just like art and music! Except it's produced directly from and through thought and logic, and if anything that makes it even more meaningful.</p>
<p>I'm tired of people claiming "I might be good at math and actually try if it interested me." People have to learn that it's the other way around: you're not going to be interested in a subject unless you try. </p>
<p>Similarly with people blaming their teachers. Sometimes these people are right, and the teacher doesn't know how to convey ideas to their students. But I feel like teachers are blamed a little too much. It's very easy for kids to avoid blaming themselves by blaming the other person involved in their education: their teacher. But someone else said, very rightly, that math is very difficult to teach because logic lies at its heart. It's next to impossible to teach people logic; students just have to make logic and only logic accessible. Too many students want to learn their own way, and need constant explanations of every single thing in a math class. Until kids let go of their inhibitions and just embrace logic and what the teacher is trying to get through, they're not going to udnerstand anything. I know kids who have asked why that variable is called x and that one is called y. There are givens and assumptions in math that can't be questioned, because they are *tools<a href="and%20only%20tools!">/i</a> to arrive at the right answer. There's no possible way to explain them because they're just necessary. I think kids get frustrated by this fact, and it frustrates me watching them get frustrated by something so insignificant.</p>
<p>bad grades.</p>