I F**CKING HATE MATH

[Stedric]

Well, British Columba high schools focus WAY too much on Math. I'm in Grade 11 but still stuck in Math 10 (used to skip quite a bit), and math is the only class I've ever had any trouble with. The Math 10 classes in our school have a 85% fail rate, and this is not an exaggeration.

This means about 25 of the 30 kids in each class fails, and the teacher's still refuse to rethink the way they teach. The math they are teaching is much too advanced for anyone who does not think mathematically, and for those of us who want to go into university there is no choice but to take math until Grade 11.

Moreover, when I ask the teacher for help, their answer sounds like this;

"Its so easy! All you have to do is take the SEFJKINDKLNSJNENDDJJKDJ and divide that by OLDSIOEWOKLSMSIENRELKSD and factor that to UEEDKDKSLHNSHNDNJS! See, its so simple!"

Yes well this is just me venting basically, but are there any classes my fellow board members hated with a passion or disagreed with the way the class was taught?

[Etrain]

Hmm, your favorite subject is English isn't it?

[Djwero]

RE because i am not religious and its so biased towards christianity

[McCauley Caulkin]

McCauley Caulkin hated math too, but math is trippy, you should watch that movie "Pi" (from the same director as reqiuem for a dream) its about how everything in the universe cam be solved with a mathematical equation, so you could basically predict future events if you could find the mathematical solution for it (the guy in the movie tries to figure out the stock market) its pretty wicked

[kyle]

Math, is'nt my strong point, but I pull a 75-85 every term and get by. Get a private tutor (then learn how to spell tutor), or explain to the teacher that you just don't get it. Also, most importantly-Don't Skip Your Classes! If you want to learn it anyway. I skip options or Art sometimes, but not my core subjects.

[Sentinel]

when i go to math class my brain just shuts off i do no work but somehow im passing. I havent handed anything in for over a month my teachers so awesome. I guess math has its purpose in life its just not for me.

[dylan]

what are you studing in your math class, Stedric? i am no math wizz, but i get A's in most of my classes. i am just curious as to what your studing.

[Etrain]

Perhaps it's just too difficult of a concept for the majority to grasp?

[mrdevious]

McCauley Caulkin hated math too,


That's getting really old.

every considered using the word "I"?

[NoosaHeads]

McCauley Caulkin hated math too, but math is trippy, you should watch that movie "Pi" (from the same director as reqiuem for a dream) its about how everything in the universe cam be solved with a mathematical equation, so you could basically predict future events if you could find the mathematical solution for it (the guy in the movie tries to figure out the stock market) its pretty wicked


Thats a Great Movie McCauley...



Stedric My Math Teacher Explained it exactly the same way to me..lmao.
advanced Math Is somthing I could Not get my head around.
Maybe you Need to Find a Cute Tutor.:).
If your Girlfreind is O.K. with it..;)

[Stedric]

what are you studing in your math class, Stedric? i am no math wizz, but i get A's in most of my classes. i am just curious as to what your studing.
Right now I am working on rational expressions and algebra. Geometry I don't mind because I find it more applicable, but rational expressions drive me up the wall. I have high 90s in every other class except math, so it REALLY drives me ballistic.


Maybe you Need to Find a Cute Tutor..:) If your Girlfreind is O.K. with it.. ;)
Why couldn't I just let HER be the tutor? Lol actually we first met in English class in Grade 10, and by the second term both of our marks were abysmal because we kept sneaking off to the library to fool around. We've never had a class together since then, and we both agree that that is pretty much a good thing in the end.


Hmm, your favorite subject is English isn't it?
No, but close. English is the class I get the highest marks in. My favourite class is either Acting or History.

[Etrain]

Yes, you remind me alot of myself stedric. Are you some-what anal when it comes to grammar/word usage?

[MisstreeNny]

"Its so easy! All you have to do is take the SEFJKINDKLNSJNENDDJJKDJ and divide that by OLDSIOEWOKLSMSIENRELKSD and factor that to UEEDKDKSLHNSHNDNJS! See, its so simple!"




Lmfao

I went throught the same shit, makes me grateful i'm 33 and have a hubby that does all our math.

[likemclever]

Iâ??m with ya Stedricâ?¦.math is the absolute worst. I do rather well in the English department but mathematics is something totally out of my reach. I also like history and political science. But mathâ?¦.forget it.

[MisstreeNny]

Iâ??m with ya Stedricâ?¦.math is the absolute worst. I do rather well in the English department but mathematics is something totally out of my reach. I also like history and political science. But mathâ?¦.forget it.
I love your lady Godiva avi

[pisshead]

math was always my favorite and best subject...maybe i'm weird, but i loved pre-cal and calculus...

i only wish i would have kept it up...i didn't have to take math in college because i placed out of it...and it's been about 6 years since i've been in a math class.

[PotSm0key]

Math isn't my strongest point either...I have a 73% in it...high everyday too lol. But my Geography/History is a different story..I have a 95% in that! A+!
High in that everyday too..lmao.

keep-a-tokin

Sm0key

P:S I am in grade 10.

[mono repin]

I used to not mind math, but I have to take too many fucking math coarses for my major at college. They aren't the easy ones either, Calc, Calc II, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, and Statistics. If I took Calc III I could be a math minor, but fuck that. Too much theoretical thinking, I can dig on physics, its applied math, but strict mathematics is the worst.

[Porkchop]

I hate math, I preferred french and spanish, but my girl on the other hand, fucking loves math. In her spare time she buys math problem solving books, kinda of like crosswords, but math I don't know what the hell she is thinking!!

[OreO]

Man i hate math...it just doesnt work for me,...history and english now i can do that easy

[Stedric]

Yes, you remind me alot of myself stedric. Are you some-what anal when it comes to grammar/word usage?
Very much so, lol.


Math isn't my strongest point either...I have a 73% in it...high everyday too lol. But my Geography/History is a different story..I have a 95% in that! A+! High in that everyday too..lmao.
Yeah, I have a 99.2 in English right now and so much of the shit I hand in was written while I was baked out of my fucking gourd. Same with Socials (which is just our name for History/Geography), I can't wait for History 12 next year.

I'm also the senior male actor in my school right now, so that means I help organize and even help teach a Drama 9/10 class.

Wow, I'm sorry, I write WAY too much while baked.

[xNoa]

yeh if you want to grades for math get yourself a tutor, i had to, easy shit now :) it's not complicated at all, quite logic, especially lower levels but you need someone good to explain it..

[Az.]

i have mymaths exam today =s

[Reefer Rogue]

I fuckin hate math. When i was in the states all they taught me was algebra and i understood the easy stuff but fuck me i suck at math. I never did my homework either lol which wasn't a good idea but i just hate doing homework. I think i just passed with a D or something. When i came back to England and was in my math class they were teaching all this stuff i didn't know that wasn't algebra so i was useless. So i have to take my math gcse at college next year and i'm really dreading it but i'll just have to get through it somehow. Math = worst subject ever. Sure, you need basic math in everyday life but all that other crap, yea rite.

[OPM]

Stedric,
If I may add my two cents worth... I am no math whiz myself so I can totally empathize with your situation. But I work as a social studies teacher so if you don't mind, i would like to make some suggestions...
I know you know this, but math is a peculiar subject, in that, since it is a language, like music, the key to at least passing math, lies in doing the work daily (attending class) and doing the homework every day. It is not like other subjects where you can let things slide a little and get caught up. Also, having a teacher you can relate to and who can relate the subject to every day life for you is important. You might check out an awesome math tutoring website called purplemath.com It really helped me out and like i said, i am an idiot when it comes to math...(come to think of it, i am an idiot in a lot of other things too).
good luck. oh yeah, whatever happened with that Olan dude that was trying to break into your house?
take care...

[GoGo Ball]

Languages 'Irish' and 'French', we did 'French' in primary school, it was compulsory in secondary school for 5 years and my third level course had a unit of 'French', that was 2 more years.

That was 14 years of crap that I had to struggle with!

I hate foreign languages.

Everyone else should learn English, not at all politically correct but that's how I feel.

By 2012 half the worlds population will have learned the English language, it is the Corporate language of the world.

As for Maths, one of my favourite, some things where better at and others we excel at.

[Stedric]

Stedric,
If I may add my two cents worth... I am no math whiz myself so I can totally empathize with your situation. But I work as a social studies teacher so if you don't mind, i would like to make some suggestions...
I know you know this, but math is a peculiar subject, in that, since it is a language, like music, the key to at least passing math, lies in doing the work daily (attending class) and doing the homework every day. It is not like other subjects where you can let things slide a little and get caught up. Also, having a teacher you can relate to and who can relate the subject to every day life for you is important. You might check out an awesome math tutoring website called purplemath.com It really helped me out and like i said, i am an idiot when it comes to math...(come to think of it, i am an idiot in a lot of other things too).
good luck. oh yeah, whatever happened with that Olan dude that was trying to break into your house?
take care...
Thanks for the website, but I do go to math every day its just frustrating. Still...thanks for the help.

[LOVElife]

I fuckin hate math. When i was in the states all they taught me was algebra and i understood the easy stuff but fuck me i suck at math. I never did my homework either lol which wasn't a good idea but i just hate doing homework. I think i just passed with a D or something. When i came back to England and was in my math class they were teaching all this stuff i didn't know that wasn't algebra so i was useless. So i have to take my math gcse at college next year and i'm really dreading it but i'll just have to get through it somehow. Math = worst subject ever. Sure, you need basic math in everyday life but all that other crap, yea rite.
MATH?? What the Fuck? Your ENGLISH man, its MATHS!! Cant believe how much our Countrys accents and words used are changing, BUT ITS A CHANGING WORLD!!

[Reefer Rogue]

MATH?? What the Fuck? Your ENGLISH man, its MATHS!! Cant believe how much our Countrys accents and words used are changing, BUT ITS A CHANGING WORLD!!

Woah there, take a deep breath and walk slowly away from the computer.

[LOVElife]

Woah there, take a deep breath and walk slowly away from the computer.
hahaha dunno wat happened there!!

[dylan]

[QUOTE=Stedric]Right now I am working on rational expressions and algebra. Geometry I don't mind because I find it more applicable, but rational expressions drive me up the wall. I have high 90s in every other class except math, so it REALLY drives me ballistic.

ya, i feel you. i liked geometry too, but algebra is ok if you give it a chance. rational expressions kinda suck, but are mainly just factoring problems, so just beef up on your factoring skills and you'll get it. i had to do that last semester. next semester i have to take pre-calcus or trigg....ugh. i am kinda worried about that, but i know if i apply myself i'll do fine. good luck, sedric, and pull that grade up and you'll have some good grades!

[BUZz UK]

[QUOTE=Stedric]ya, i feel you.
eww

[DonnieDarko]

Mathematics can be difficult.

If the problem is with your teachers, then a good tutor would help.

Analytical skills are developed on the left side of the brain. If the right side of your brain is dominant, then you may never be good at math.

Left side dominance: Logical, sequential, symbolic, reality based thinking : example scientists
Right side dominance: Intuitive, randon, concrete, fantasy based thinking : example artists

[Dick Justice]

85% fail rate? That's fucking harsh man!

I suck at math, I believe only in the power of the cram session (not to be confused with jam session).

As for the idea about math being a language, I can see that. But what if you're also terrible at retaining information about a new language? I know I am, I dragged my ass through my last year of French like a dog with worms.

[bigblunt09]

I didn't get it at all last year but i'm in summer school and i seem to understand it more. Try to talk wit a teacher 1 on 1 after class or something

[Stedric]

Mathematics can be difficult.

If the problem is with your teachers, then a good tutor would help.

Analytical skills are developed on the left side of the brain. If the right side of your brain is dominant, then you may never be good at math.

Left side dominance: Logical, sequential, symbolic, reality based thinking : example scientists
Right side dominance: Intuitive, randon, concrete, fantasy based thinking : example artists
No offense man, but that theory was proven to be mostly bullshit along time ago. Your brain IS divided into different sections based on scientific or artistic thinking, but they aren't mutually exclusive at all.


eww
Haha, grow up and stop being a dink, man. :D

[Looker]

Do anything you can to ace it master it....

Im 42 years old and I believe life is a big ass struggle for me cause I just didnt have the math skills in reference to the work world....

I just have two work three times as hard and be a good doggie...

It seems the math heads and high science/computer people are able to write their own ticket....do a bare minimum of work and get paid the most...

I dunno Stedric but from what I see of you, you are more of a creative artistic type what with the school play and all...your probably very popular at school with the girls and all...I was like that too and had a lot of dreams of being a writer or in TV production.....I went to college for it...but a fter a few years of not making alot of money I turned to the conventional work world and found myself a t a loss in technical terms.....I caught up a little then the wife and kids came along and it just gets harder to work, hustle and go to night school...it really sucks especially for a stoner who looks for a little pleasure in life...

Just wish I woulda squared all that shit away years ago when I was a free agent....

[Looker]

Like right now I am a process technician working in a semiconductor manufacturing environment. I make 20 bucks an hour but the Engineers make 4 times that amount and more.....I COULD get an engineering degree in about 2-3 years but boy the math is hard for an old stoner....and even if I quit tomorrow(weed) I dont think the old THC bathed brain is gonna hack calc...

I realize you may not make the association/correlation that is just my opinion..

Ahh shit, y'know what Sted? from what I hear of you you are destined for some greatness anyway.... :D

Dont swaet it too much my friend....

[Etrain]

Math is amazing. An immaculate concept :)

[Looker]

Yeah but I understand his points...

If you have the math skills it opens certain doors in your college options...

Jobs like actuaries where well skilled mathematics types get the red carpet treatment cause they have a hardcore skill, but to the actuary, its probably as easy as going to the bathroom....

Yeah then Ive heard the stories like..Oh well he may be a genius but he cant navigate his way through a social situation or the fucking door, for that matter......

Its very hard because I think the school systems are placing more emphasis on math these days..cause the States cant compete with the world..I mean these young students coming out of China and India are so damn well educated we over here in the States gotta catch up....

[likemclever]

I love your lady Godiva avi

Thanks, I like yours but it makes my eyes hurt if I look at it too long..

[DonnieDarko]

No offense man, but that theory was proven to be mostly bullshit along time ago. Your brain IS divided into different sections based on scientific or artistic thinking, but they aren't mutually exclusive at all.


Haha, grow up and stop being a dink, man. :D

No offense taken, Stedric. Maybe I bought into that theory because I have advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, but I can barely draw a stick figure.

[dylan]

eww

i don't even get it. eww what? it's not like i was feeling his balls or something.

[McCauley Caulkin]

That's getting really old.

every considered using the word "I"?
You should be gracious to see the words "McCauley Caulkin" on your somputer screen.
McCauley Caulkin is simply helping you to elevate, because by seeing the name McCauley Caulkin, you are already that much better ;) . your welcome

[likemclever]

McCauley.....don't change......the part of you (third person) that used to make me want to scream has now become part of your Caulkin charm...

[rhinoblanco]

i hate math too..try takin Ap calc in 11th grade man