what's your worst part of maths? (1 Viewer)

[babydoll_]

Hmm i was just wondering, what part of the Mathematics course are you worst at? Personally, I'm pretty good at anything Geometry related, but I suck at Algebra, particularly algebraic fractions and factorising and all that jazz. I think that's whats screwing me up for the rest of course.

Is anybody else having a similar problem?

 

[Minai]

lol yeah complete opposite for me
calculus was easy, and geometry + things u needed a diagram for I stuggled with

 

[Juliet]

Trigonometric identities I SUCK at, no matter how much I try, I just don't get it.

 

[Lazarus]

I know a lot of people struggle with probability.

I personally always hated that parametric/locus topic.

 

[babydoll_]

OMG yes. I HATE trigonometry. Probability is alright... but I've always hated algebra... even though it's the basis for pretty much everything else.

 

[ellipsis]

Originally posted by BaByDoLL11^^
what's your worst part of maths??

Simple. All of it.
Actually, one major problem I have is not keeping track of the minus signs getting an answer thats negative when its supposed to be positve. I always do that. And, yeah, I know it should be easy and I should just pay more attention yadda yadda yadda, but it still always happens.

I know a lot of people struggle with probability.

Yeah, heaps of people I know hate that too. But thats one of the few things I like in maths !!!!!! Its kinda interesting, whilst the rest is all semi human gabble about anti differentiating and what not.

 

[schooly]

the worst part of maths will have to be probability and curve sketching. anything else like algebra, calculus, trig, are alright

 

[Juliet]

Perhaps ellipsis you would have been excellent at General Maths. Cos I heard they do a lot more probability than 2 unit Maths.

 

[tooheyz]

Originally posted by Lazarus
I know a lot of people struggle with probability.

I personally always hated that parametric/locus topic.

yeah i hate the parametric and the locus... i'm alright with the rest i guess... hahaha i acutally understand what im doing.. but for locus, everything seems to be in a different language.

 

[flyin']

probability is by far my worst topic ... and at uni apparently actuarial studies involves alot of that ... o well ...

 

[ND]

Geometry, by far. I'm so dreading the harder 3U circle geometry.

 

[sukiyaki]

tri functions! and the physical calculus ..

 

[babydoll_]

OMG, i'm doing rate of change at the moment, and I have NO idea what's going on. It's so confusing.. I hate it

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by BaByDoLL11^^
OMG, i'm doing rate of change at the moment, and I have NO idea what's going on. It's so confusing.. I hate it

are u serious?
its one of the easier aspects of the course
just remember the questions dont vary that much, so the process is all the same - learn how to do one question and u can do them all, the key is repetiton (obviously, lol)

and thats pretty quick, ur already up to applications of calculus

 

[tt_j65]

Originally posted by ND
Geometry, by far. I'm so dreading the harder 3U circle geometry.

its very easy.

 

[babydoll_]

are u serious?
its one of the easier aspects of the course
just remember the questions dont vary that much, so the process is all the same - learn how to do one question and u can do them all, the key is repetiton (obviously, lol)

and thats pretty quick, ur already up to applications of calculus

I tells you MinAi, it's not easy... or maybe I'm just dumb.. or maybe my tutor sux0rs.

 

[ND]

Originally posted by tt_j65



its very easy.

I hope so, but i doubt anything in q7/q8 will be at all easy. Just out of curiosity, if you're class of '03, does that mean that you've already done harder 3u this year? most classes do that last.

 

[timmii]

projectiles. I don't think i got single question for them right - ever! But then again, they were "taught" to us in a day in a much-rushed attempt to finish the syllabus. Probability I found hard because we learnt it in a week (and not particularly well taught at that), but i found it more interesting than some of the other topics. Didn't partic like trig either - anything remotely practical/spatial e.g geometry confounds me...But I love calculus/algebra etc - same method over and over

 

[sukiyaki]

3unit circle geometry i did that ni yr 11? realli everyone does that last 0_o?

 

[ND]

Originally posted by sukiyaki
3unit circle geometry i did that ni yr 11? realli everyone does that last 0_o?

Nah not 3u circle geom, i'm talking about harder 3u circle geom, which is in the 4u course.