How to get better at math?
Because teachers don't have the right approach about teaching math, students end up "hating" math. You have to convince yourself that you can master it. Change your attitude towards it, learn to "love" it. Use the Internet, do a search for Learning math the easy way. Spend some time with it. In the future you'll be rewarded for it. It can make a big difference in your life, remember you have at least 60 more years ahead. This is a good tool, among many: http://mathway.com/
How do I get better at math?
I’m currently in 8th grade but my math skills are equivalent to a 3rd grader... I was home schooled until 4th grade but both my parents worked so I barely got taught much. Because of that when they eventually put me into an online school I didn’t understand any of it. But I didn’t want to tell my parents or teacher because I was too ashamed and I thought I would look like an idiot, so I thought of a stupid solution: calculator. So I didn’t get the extra help I needed with my school because I cheated and made it look like I didn’t need any help. Now, in 8th grade, I can’t understand anything my teachers teach. And I realize it’s a little late, but I want to catch back up on math, I just don’t know how. Basically, what I am asking is what are you taught in each grade? For example, in 3rd grade they teach you the basics of multiplication and division, plus some on fractions. What about the other grades? I am asking this so I can look up how to do it and know my progress. Also, is there any tips on how to remember things easily? It seems my brain just doesn't want to remember any of the math I learn so I forget everything the next day...
How can I do better in Math?
I am the director of an honors program at a high school. I have been doing this for years, and math is the class that the most students always have trouble with -- not only in my program but all over the high school, and not only in my high school but in high schools everywhere. I have had to give the answer to your question to countless parents and students. The answer is: practice. The only way to do better at math is to practice. You should ask your math teacher for more problems to solve. I know you don´t want to do that, but that is the way to get better. It would be great if your math teacher could give you a book or some exercises that have the answers in the back. Of course, don´t look at the answers until you finish doing the problems. It also helps take the pressure off of you and helps you to do better if you are solving math problems that are not for a grade. It will feel more like you are solving a puzzle than doing school work. Quick answer: you have to practice solving math problems. You have to practice a lot. *** When I was writing this, no one had posted their answer yet. As soon as I posted this, I saw three other answers. We are all saying the same thing: practice. It looks like the answer is very clear.
How can I get better at basic math?
Please don't make the mistake (like a number of the respondents here) that facility with basic arithmetic (a pointless exercise, we have machines for that sort of basic stuff nowadays) equates to skill at mathematics.Seriously, you're wasting your time even thinking about it. If you want to be good at mathematics, forget about arithmetic. Carry on using your fingers if it helps -- but if you really need to do lots of arithmetic, use a calculator.Advanced physics does not need this outdated skill. It requires a completely different skillset.
How can i get better in math word problems?
Right now im a college and taking calculus , its not really that hard but my problem is word problems and applications. i have hard times solving them i can never understand how to solve them. im a chemistry major and i dont want to switch major b/c of this the chem word problems are easy to solve b/c i know what im looking for and what to solve but with calculus,geometry,trig word problem i do not know what to do so with all this saided what should i do to get better, time is running out next semester i wil be in calculus two and i know thats the hardest of the math and than a year from now i will be taking phyics base on calculus and calculus 3 math is not really hard for me to understand but i was never propely taught how to solve these type of problem so can anyone help me with some really good advice like whats a good book to teach every basic word problem and beyond
What's better English or Math?
Me and my brother are having a heated debate on what is more important in life. I want to be an English teacher and he insists that English is useless and something anybody can teach but with Math "its the fundamentals of life." Give us your opinion to try and settle our dispute. Please & thank you loves =)
How do I become better at math rapidly?
I was never especially gifted at mathematics, and I didn’t “love” mathematics in secondary school. But I ended up completing an undergraduate degree in mathematics in college. Your mileage may vary but I found that the first thing that happened was that I became fascinated with mathematics: the beauty and art of it and, dare I say, the mystery of it. Igniting that sense of fascination propelled me like nothing else could. I don’t know how to ignite it in others, but I happened to read a couple of fascinating books about mathematics round about the time that i was taking Calculus I. The books were “Chaos” by James Gleick and “The Man Who Knew Infinity” by Robert Kanigel.Aside from that, the human brain gets good at what it does day in and day out. If you were a prisoner on some lonely island and there was nothing to do all day but play checkers with your cellmate, you’d get quite adept at checkers in a hurry. Your brain would absorb the lessons of each game and you would begin to play in phrases rather than individual moves, and from there the overall strategies inherent in the moves would become second nature. You and your cellmate would play rapidly and you would see who was going to win long before the final jump because your brain would have thoroughly adapted itself to checkers.Mathematics is like that too. If you commit yourself to your studies your brain will adapt. At first you may struggle to do basic algebra like factoring (x^2-16) but eventually you would reach a point where you recognized the expression as the difference of two perfect squares and without any effort your brain would translate that into (x+4)(x-4) and it would no more difficult that substituting “Bob” for “Robert.” Your brain would just keep getting more finely honed the more work you did. You might even find it exciting, beautiful, and a little addicting in a good way.
How can I get better at understanding math?
Find a mentor, or several math people you can check in with, who can answer your questions and tell you what subjects might either help you understand better, or might fire your curiosity.Read math books. Read good math books. If you don’t understand things, that’s fine. Very few of us understand everything we read. Expose yourself to the core ideas in these books, and if a book doesn’t explain its subject in a way you understand, find another book that explains it better to you. Read Wikipedia articles and nLab articles and Mathworld articles. Read math books from 50–100 years ago and see how they understood the ideas you are studying (if they existed back then, which most of them did, at least in some form).Play with the concepts you are learning. Your goal is to make these concepts yours, and they won’t be yours until you have played with them. Give yourself problems to solve. Ask questions and try to answer them. Take ideas you think you already know and test yourself to see if you fully understand them.Find out what the physicists think of the ideas you are studying. Try to find some of the math you are learning in physics books and see how it is presented in that context.Learn something about the history of math. Read Euclid, Cardano, Descartes, Newton, and others. See how the Babylonians, Greeks, Indians, Arabs and Renaissance Europeans thought about mathematics.Learn linear algebra. Every math subject there is uses linear algebra, and there’s always more linear algebra to learn.Do not shy away from learning differential equations, both ODEs and PDEs. People who refuse to learn differential equations at least on a basic level (and there’s a lot of them in pure mathematics) never really understand mathematics on a global, conceptual level.At some point, make your peace with category theory, and strive to understand what universal means. The sooner you learn what a universal mapping property is, and what a universal cover is, the more concepts are opened up to you.