I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.
I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair, and my musical ability for math ability. Both of those are far more useful in life. Maybe also trade my computer ability for welding or woodworking.
That or two vacant bodyes XD
On a more practical note. If you have some time to spare, i really would advise you (if you’ve got spare time ofc) to watch videos by 3b1b, the gray cuber, 2swap, lines that connect etc… While you don’t come out with a complete mastery of the subject, you do get a really deep intuition which i can’t seem to get from teachers. + you get to learn that math is trully FUN rather than jusy interesting ;)
I will check those out, thanks.
I have long understood that one of the problems with mathematics (and you see this in chemistry, physics, logic, etc) is that it is assumed that by learning to approach a problem algorithmically, an intuition has been formed. Then the test maker will throw a problem at you that does not follow the algorithm and the student who does not notice the relationship between two things is unable to complete it. This is basically where I am at with my statistics work–some basic probability questions still escape me.
I totally get this, it’s so frustrating when you know there is a geometric, aproachable and intuitive way to get at the subject and your proffessor just throws formulas at his students •π•
I just finished a course called Statistical Process Control. In brief, create two normal distributions and hope that the means of your customer specification and your manufacturing tolerances match up. If they don’t fix it.
I put together a study guide of just equations. No information on how to use them or interpret their results, just the equations and it came to 14 pages. This professor provided an equation sheet for the final exam that listed 2 of them, suggesting that we should be able to derive the remainder. This seemed like a big ask and requiring additional cognitive load when not necessary, but, apparently, I am the exception in this course because I scored below the fourth quartile (66%) with a median of 82%. Guess the others could, indeed, do the derivations…
Fortunately my homework, course project, and course paper are much better and helped raise final grade. I found it frustrating because I believe that he is teaching towards those who need a guide rather than those who need to learn.
Good luck with that. It must be difficult in a field where everybody’s got a head start on you. But i believe you can do it [insert never give up japanese man here] as you get more comfortable, pathways should start to form in your mind which will truly help to cut down on the cognitive load of memoryzing all the different variations of formulas ;)
Thanks, I appreciate the support.
I just went and subscribed to these channels. Their videos will pop up in my feed over time.
I have spent the last few months watching Mind Your Decisions and AndyMath. I can follow what they are doing but do not feel that I could always/necessarily reproduce what they do if given a novel problem. I am hopeful that continuing to go through these will help me build up a solid repertoire of thinking skills.
If you have other channel suggestions, please share!
Found a few others you might want to look into : -stand up math. The videos are a bit more shallow in and of themselves, but they do touch on some quite obscure and deep math subjects. -numberphile. Great one offs, a bit less entertaining… Took me some time to get into it but there’s a huge backlog
I was just thinking about you. Thanks so much for coming back here for this. I’ll check these out.
Oh and, there also zye. Almost forgot… He’s very new but very fun and intersting to watch.
Have fun conquering math
I’ll look up the rest once i’m on wifi