How do I learn to like math?
How do I learn to like math?
Andrew White
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Ethan Harris
forget about proofs and calculations. focus on high level concepts. use software to solve problems.
Isaac Collins
Dunno but I started Khan Academy recently from 0 and finally understood everything I couldn't at school and now I even dream in math. I always had an interest in math that was killed off by the school system though, but maybe that could help you too.
Juan Mitchell
Start from theory, Abstract Algebra and Real Number Analysis...i used to hate Maths until i actually found out how beautiful numbers and functions are
Benjamin Young
There are some fun history of math books out there (I had a good Dover one). Start there, and with "1 2 3 infinity". If you can program a little bit, do a few project Euler problems, c looking up the concepts as you go.
The are also some good videos on specific concepts, if you're up for trying around YouTube for them. But wait until it comes up in a problem (or section of a book) that strikes your interest.
William Wright
WTF you don't like math. Even the biggest math brains don't like math.
Aiden White
This.
Start from the scratch, work your way up and never underestimate easy problems.
Didn't know shit about math and I always hated it, but everything changed with Khan Academy.
Oliver Cooper
Sal plz go
Jace Peterson
What does "start from scratch" mean? Am I really supposed to waste my time studying basic arithmetic for weeks or can I start at precalculus?
Connor Hernandez
it means start with algebra 1, or start with fractions and then algebra 1.
algebra "1" and "2" are the most important maths to fully conceptualize.
calculus is 95% algebra, 4% trig, 1% new concept for example.
you can memorize the other 5%, but you need solid algebra understanding to do the actual maths.
Isaiah James
How long does it take to get through a Khan academy course?
Jason Cook
>What does "start from scratch" mean?
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Jaxson Barnes
Dude Sagan lmao.
Xavier White
Take LSD
Charles Rivera
You're basically gonna learn all the things you should have learned at high school, so I'd say a couple months. Maybe way less than that if you're not lazy.
Jaxson King
took me about a month to get 100% on alg 1 and 2 with an hour or two a day.
and im not particularly smart or good with conceptualization.
after that memorize the main trig functions or get a basic idea of trig and rads and then calc1/2 should be easy.
Hudson Johnson
Like? Just fucking deal with it, if you hated it you will still hate it. Autists like math, they are just useful for other applications.
Now stop crying and go to study.
Nathan Wilson
Go to libgen.io and get:
>**Precalculus - Sheldon Axler
>Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Godel - John Stillwell
>An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions - Eccles
>The Art and Craft of Problem Solving - Paul Zeitz
>How to Solve it - George Polya
**Precalc book is just so you can look up shit you come across and don't remember, it has every second exercises fully worked out instead of just handing answers.
1)Start with Elements of Mathematics by Stillwell. It's all of 'elementary' math explained by a Mathematician and a short book. When you get to the calculus part, also check out (Lecture Videos) Highlights of Calculus (MIT) on Open Courseware it's free and explains what Calculus is.
2)Read the first few chapters of The Art and Craft of Problem Solving. Written by US math olympiad coach, it tells you strategies for solving problems. Also read the Polya book or just look it up on Wikipedia and read the solving steps.
3)Read Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning. Learn to do proofs by induction, about sets, ect. It's not a long book.
4) Watch these lectures (advanced, but self contained) scs.hosted.panopto.com
At the same time learn Functional Programming because it is essentially just math where you are writing theorems (Types) and proving them via induction (the rest of the program). Try this: cs.cmu.edu
Congrats, you 'get' math now, but you only learn by doing so afterwards get a rigorous discrete/combinatorial math book and do it.
Nathan Ward
Start from wherever you "feel you already know but don't know next", since you will probably find things you missed out at first and will help you with the new themes.
I had to literally start at division and fractions since I was so lacking and went to pre-algebra but had to go back to basic geometry when the nigga used transversals to solve shit in cartesian planes but now I fucking understand everything and have absolutely no idea why I was not taught this at school because shit is fucking magical.
Evan Lopez
Bump
Levi Gutierrez
That podcast link doesn't work for me
Jordan Young
Depends on the which field you want to work in, math is very large. But not as large as your butt when it'll be done with you tho. Take logic for instance:
- go full antisemitism like master Gentzen;
- make a few trips to your nearest sanatorium like master Cantor;
- starve yourself to death like master Godel;
- OR die in a pistol duel like saint Evariste Galois (but that not logic anymore).
Jonathan Allen
Watch some Numberphile on YouTube! That sparked it for me. Now I'm learning a ton.
Ian Adams
Let anime teach you.
Oliver Campbell
Be gayer...
Sorry not possible
Parker Hernandez
I mast to that channel