09-15-2020, 08:57 PM
Here's my insight as a language/humanities centric person—I'm okay with math because it trains my brain and I want to be versatile in life. If there's something I'm vaguely curious about, it's fun to critically think about what operations I need to get there (as opposed to actually executing the math itself).
Math is like a jigsaw. Some people like the 50 piece puzzle and others like the 5000 piece. I have fun solving the former and trying to do it more quickly each time. That being said, I feel people who do more advanced math concepts don't have as much of an instant gratification bug as I do.
If you try to give me the 5000 piece puzzle during a test I will actually crack under pressure. Even if you already have certain trends and formulas established, all of that gets thrown out of the window when you lose the flow of what you're doing. I understand the concepts but I literally don't understand my location with them.
I'd like to believe that math is very flexible across an entire word problem but I often feel like I'm locked to a linear process. The idea that Step 1 has the possibility of fucking up Step 2 is what turns me off about math, and I can't quite debug it easily.
Another major problem with math is that most people who hate it are working with something they can't see. Math is another story when applied to rendered contexts, rather than numbers and letters.
I'm not a visual learner, but it's crucially important to me for math. Piecewise functions and Pascal's triangle were cake units in my Algebra II class because they were visual by default.
Also want to mention that people who are "into math" come off as condescending to people who don't space it as well. It's really demeaning to hear someone say "okay, but math is everywhere"—like stop doing it, it's goddamn annoying. I'd really love to tell you that knowing how to interpret information is also everywhere!
I hope this provides some positive thinking for others who don't like math. It's not easy stuff, but college definitely looks at your flexibility as a person and that math is generally something that can always be improved on among many other things.
Math is like a jigsaw. Some people like the 50 piece puzzle and others like the 5000 piece. I have fun solving the former and trying to do it more quickly each time. That being said, I feel people who do more advanced math concepts don't have as much of an instant gratification bug as I do.
If you try to give me the 5000 piece puzzle during a test I will actually crack under pressure. Even if you already have certain trends and formulas established, all of that gets thrown out of the window when you lose the flow of what you're doing. I understand the concepts but I literally don't understand my location with them.
I'd like to believe that math is very flexible across an entire word problem but I often feel like I'm locked to a linear process. The idea that Step 1 has the possibility of fucking up Step 2 is what turns me off about math, and I can't quite debug it easily.
Another major problem with math is that most people who hate it are working with something they can't see. Math is another story when applied to rendered contexts, rather than numbers and letters.
I'm not a visual learner, but it's crucially important to me for math. Piecewise functions and Pascal's triangle were cake units in my Algebra II class because they were visual by default.
Also want to mention that people who are "into math" come off as condescending to people who don't space it as well. It's really demeaning to hear someone say "okay, but math is everywhere"—like stop doing it, it's goddamn annoying. I'd really love to tell you that knowing how to interpret information is also everywhere!
I hope this provides some positive thinking for others who don't like math. It's not easy stuff, but college definitely looks at your flexibility as a person and that math is generally something that can always be improved on among many other things.
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