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Ralic
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jun 23, 2009
Age: 19
Posts: 53
Location: Far away from home...
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| I'm OK with math. If I stop working with it, I may get confused by it. But if I keep at it, and study, I usually understand it better than most people. It's just a subject that needs some love. |
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aleclair
Deinonychus
Joined: Oct 19, 2006
Age: 19
Posts: 339
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Orwell wrote: | | Math major here. I enjoy math, don't know if I would be considered good at it or not. I'm in graduate-level courses now and passing them, so I guess that counts for something. |
That counts for quite a lot. At least in my math department, most of the graduate courses pretty much assume that you've taken undergrad linear algebra/real analysis/topology/whatever. And I can barely get through a proper, rigorous, proof-based treatment of linear algebra.
Just keeping things on topic, do you think more of us would like math if the whole logic-and-proofs thing were emphasized from the start? Something like is described in Lockhart's Lament (this is a long read, beware!) - more of an emphasis on discovering mathematical conjectures - because, after all, what proportion of us will be using logarithms in the real world? Of course, a good mental gold on fractions, decimals, and algebra is essential - but after that, wouldn't it be better to teach logical thinking as opposed to formula memorization? |
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Jaejoongfangirl
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Joined: Oct 20, 2007
Posts: 342
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I don't enjoy math... At all. Definitely my least favorite class.
I'm alright at it - though I wouldn't say it comes naturally.
But I see it as a necessary evil. Once you know it, it's very useful. You need it (calculus included, unfortunately) to understand chemical processes and quantum behavior. And nothing is better to me than those two things. So interesting! XD
I'm better at visual math - graphs, triangles and the like than I am at pure numbers/variables math. I like to attach the concept to an image and, if it doesn't come attached to an image, I have to make the stand-alone equation into an image of itself (if that makes any sense) to try and comprehend it. I have to bend my mind every-which-way to understand and thus remember how to use the many different things/operations. Very time consuming. 
Math is just memorization of number relationships, that are later used to describe more important, real things. In and of itself, removed from scientific, monetary, and dimensional application, I don't feel it has any value. Numbers are made to do what they are needed to do - and they do their job well.
They're very useful things, but that doesn't mean I enjoy using them.  |
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MONKEY
Mermaid fanatic
Joined: Jan 04, 2009
Age: 16
Posts: 2314
Location: The moon
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I'm not good at maths, I'm OK in basic maths but anything more complicated I'm crap at. What I hated about maths at school was when you had to show your working because if I did it in my head then why should I.
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Tach
Raven
Joined: Oct 31, 2009
Posts: 113
Location: Sol System
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a diagnosed aspie, and I am so bad at math, I had to drop a elementary algebra remedial course this semester at the college because there was no way I could pass it AFTER THE SECOND TEST! In other words, that stereotype is WAY off. Somehow though, I'm decent at computer programming (I thought math and computer programming were supposed to be linked together, heh guess not that much.) |
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Avarice
Blue Jay
Joined: Oct 06, 2009
Posts: 85
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:40 am Post subject: |
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It depends on what kind of math, at the moment I'm studying coordinate geometry in class and am having trouble with it. I understand the equations of things like slope, for example y2-y1/x2-x1 but I have trouble with drawing the graphs and I always forget which one is x and which one is y.
I was always fairly good at algebra, lots of patterns to work with...
In general I think that it depends on how you think. Not all aspies are great at math and neither are all NT's. |
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MrWalrus
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Nov 03, 2009
Age: 20
Posts: 29
Location: Lancashire, UK
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:22 am Post subject: |
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thats such a stereotype- 
i was AWFUL at maths in school
i can't build a computer
havent made any major scientific discoveries
etc.
i'm good at art & music but i'm not gifted |
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Tollorin
Sea Gull
Joined: Jun 15, 2009
Age: 27
Posts: 240
Location: Sherbrooke,Québec, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a weird case. I was bad with the math teach in elementary school. Multiplication tables was such a pain, and it's only beacause I repeated my 6th grade that I learned how to made a division. The calculations made with fraction are even WORST. 
Later though, I mostly had no problem. Pre-algebra was really easy and I had no trouble getting perfect scores with it.  I don't get why peoples strugle with pythagore, it's so simple. I do had trouble though for the part where you have to write a long serie of boring sentences such as why ABC angle is equal to the CDE angle, I just unable to write the proof in the way I'm supposed to. (Anyone else bad at this...)
But that part was boring anyway...
For calculus I only done the "differential calculation" part but not the "integral" part, but I was doing okay for the differential.
| MONKEY wrote: | | I'm not good at maths, I'm OK in basic maths but anything more complicated I'm crap at. What I hated about maths at school was when you had to show your working because if I did it in my head then why should I. |
That you made it all in your head mean that your TOO GOOD at this. (For me I can't do the problems if I don't write them.) Maybe you're should self-taught it to yourself... |
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beejay
Snowy Owl
Joined: Sep 12, 2009
Age: 29
Posts: 169
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina
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I never liked math, though I wasn't terrible at it. Social Studies was, and still is, my obsession. I am pretty good at doing basic calculations in my head, though; I know what I need to know in everyday life.
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Avarice
Blue Jay
Joined: Oct 06, 2009
Posts: 85
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| Hmm... I just did a test for Coordinate Geometry, it was out of 33. I got 36 (there was a bonus question). |
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Resplendence
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Nov 08, 2009
Posts: 30
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| I am horrible at math no matter how hard I try or how many tutors I hire I just can't understand it. When I took the GED(I was home schooled) I only passed the math section by a couple points although I did get a perfect score in both reading and social studies, a near perfect score in language and an average score in science. |
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ma_137
Toucan
Joined: May 31, 2005
Age: 29
Posts: 288
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I am functionally retarded when it comes to math. The way i was diagnosed as being aspie was after I failed basic algebra for the 6th time. |
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Nym
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Nov 06, 2009
Age: 19
Posts: 30
Location: Leeds, UK
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| When I was younger (pre-teens) I was way ahead of my class at school in math, recognising patterns and doing the sums in my head, but once they started teaching times tables at school I fell way behind because I've never been able to remember then and have to actually figure out sums in my head rather than just remembering the tables. |
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Celtic_Frost
Raven
Joined: Sep 13, 2009
Age: 18
Posts: 112
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Heh, I am very slow at math and tend to make errors a lot, even with a calculator!
I recently passed a test that had mainly equations, but they had really complex, two-sided equations with the variable happening in more than one place (in both sides)... I can't really explain it, but that's in developmental math (at college)! I thought I hated fractions, but this... I usually make a stupid error in the long process to solve these problems!  |
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Orwell
Outer Party Member
Joined: Aug 09, 2007
Age: 20
Posts: 8369
Location: Room 101
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| aleclair wrote: | | Just keeping things on topic, do you think more of us would like math if the whole logic-and-proofs thing were emphasized from the start? Something like is described in Lockhart's Lament (this is a long read, beware!) - more of an emphasis on discovering mathematical conjectures - because, after all, what proportion of us will be using logarithms in the real world? Of course, a good mental gold on fractions, decimals, and algebra is essential - but after that, wouldn't it be better to teach logical thinking as opposed to formula memorization? |
I've already read Lockhart's Lament- it's an interesting commentary.
If the logical thought and theorem-proving were emphasized earlier on, then yes, more people would like math. Also importantly, we would all be much better at math. If you've ever sat through a rigorous class and proved theorems, and then gone back and looked at the material that simply required you to apply those concepts, it's astonishing how trivially easy it seems.
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