My experience with taking a first year "weed out" class, as someone that helped his classmates, was that the way the material was taught really sucked. Since it was a combination weed out and "let's show you a little bit of a lot of things", there was minimal or very terse explanations of concepts that were entirely foreign to people that hadn't been doing it on their own already before coming to this class.
Without a grounded explanation for WHY something is, whatever the topic is (whether it's a pointer in C++, a tense in french, a math concept, etc) it has no context. Without context all you can do is understand how different ways of using it gets you different useful results. That may be practical, in a limited test taking way, but it isn't real understanding and it's very frustrating to have that gap in understanding but have no way to fill it with the materials being provided to you. When your only understanding is a sort of cause / effect or side-effect based understanding, when you get asked a question that relies on the underlying concept you've got absolutely no shot; at best you rely on yet more memorizing of "how to get the right answer for the test" but that's only going to carry you so far; although according to Erica Goldson it'll take you all the way to valedictorian.
>why 2 negative numbers multiplied are positive, I wouldn't be able to explain
This is actually somewhat arbitrary. It's a necessary property of the real number system, and there are many calculations (in physics etc.) where this is convenient, but there's no fundamental reason why you couldn't conventionally use a number system where this wasn't the case.
Liam Morales
so what is the best way to learn math? (very basic math)
Isaiah Richardson
Can definitely confirm this. All the teachers I've had just seemed so uninterested for both teaching and the math they taught. The ones who weren't were just drown out by the noisy class of 30 males in one room , none of whom had any interest in learning or even paying attention. I'll be honest I was one of them and now I have nothing but problems(not getting into desired uni, not understanding the math parts of other subjects etc.). I can't say I hate math but if you fuck up or fall behind one part, nothing following that will make sense, so naturally I gave up like any other average highschooler. I'm trying to go back to all those parts and properly learn this time, the math makes sense and it seems to be easier to just read the book yourself. At least this time you get to learn some theory, whereas every teacher will just skip that and get to the problems so students can cram them
Sebastian Turner
>saying this without explaining what an axiomatic system is fuck you dickwad
Zachary Campbell
>cauchy-bunyakovsky Look at this fucking dork. It's just Cauchy-Schwartz you mouth-breather. We don't give credit to r*ssians here.
Carter Phillips
cauchy-schwartz-bunyakovsky
Wyatt Gray
If you're looking to review arithmetic, Serre's A Course In Arithmetic is designed for 4th graders to go from adding, subtracting, and multiplying, and so on. I think you might even know square roots by the end. Great intro book, read the whole thing and did every exercise when I was 7.
Ryan Ward
The wiles-ribet proof of FLT.
Asher King
that copypasta is a troll right? no one studies that shit in high school.
