How do I get better at math?
How do I get better at math?
Julian Edwards
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Noah White
Do problems.
Gavin Cruz
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Kevin Cooper
That's actually not a bad idea. I'll give it a try.
Ryder Mitchell
Do more math.
David Thomas
Mathematical Problem Solving by Alan H. Schoenfeld
In general, you should do problems, without looking at the solution. The book or another book must have solved example problem.
Time yourself, perhaps 15-20 mins for one problem, if you're not able to solve it, go to the next one.
Try to do both easier and more difficult problems. Easier problems like routine calculations are important.
Find someone with similar skill level for discussions, don't rely on the smart guy in class.
With all of these strategies, I manage to get a solid F for my Honors Calculus I.
Liam Thompson
>I manage to get a solid F for my Honors Calculus
what does "F" mean?
Asher Moore
This
Don Knuth said this in an interview[1] when asked how he got so good at math
"The Dean of Case says to us, "look to the person on your left, and the person on your right. One of you isn’t going to be here next year; one of you is going to fail.” I had never heard of calculus until I got to college. But the calculus book that we had was great (Calculus by George Thomas), and in the back of the book there were supplementary problems that weren’t, assigned by the teacher. I worked the supplementary problems. I was scared I wouldn’t learn calculus, so I worked hard on it, and it turned out that of course it took me longer to solve all these problems than the kids who were only working on what was assigned, at first. But after a year, I could do all of those problems in the same time as my classmates were doing the assigned problems, and after that I could just coast in mathematics, because I’d learned how to solve problems."
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You get good at math by doing math. It's a practitioner's art so you the more you do it, the better you are providing you have decent material to learn from
Liam Brown
Can you become Newton-tier or Gauss-tier by doing problems for 2 hours every day for 5 years? Or is that actually dependent on intellect?
Michael Garcia
Failed