what i must to do to enjoy mathematics ?

Question

I have a difficult to learn mathematics? I dislike this, but i think its necessary....?
What can i do?

Answer 1

find the rhythm in math

the rhythm is gonna get you
the rhythm is gonna get you
the RHYTHM is gonna geeet you...


My mom used to have a hard time with math because she wanted to *understand it* before she *did it*. That doesn't work. Stop trying to understand it and instead, just *accept* it. Understanding will come after accepting and after doing. Give your brain time to make all the connections while you're following all the pre-determined steps then POW, you'll get it and you'll understand it.

Answer 2

You do not say what else you are studying or what you are interested in or want to do later in life. This makes it a bit difficult to give you a good answer, but I can relate your feelings to my own experience.

I am an electronics and telecommunications engineer with some 35 years of experience. After 20 years of working as an engineer I did about 5 years of teaching up to masters level.

I have a problem with the way that math is taught at all levels. Math is generally taught as a seperate subject. The general idea is that an engineering topic cannot be taught until the student has sufficient math. So we teach the math without saying why and then teach the engineering assuming that the student understands the math.

In my view, the best approacch is to start teaching an egineering topic and in so doing define the need for mathematical analysis. Then develop and teach the required math followed by application of the math to the engineering topic. Teachers of engineering and mathematics will come up with reasons why they cannot do this. The real reason for not doing it is that many engineering teachers do not fully understand the math, if they do why do schools employ math teachers?, and math teachers do not fully understand the engineering.

The trick is to try to make this happen for yourself. When you come to use the math in another subject, recognise the need for mathematical description and analysis. Realise that math is in part a descriptive language that provides you with a shorthand way of describing processes. As an example, take any math expression that you use in a subject that you like and try to write that expression in plain language in such a way that it is totaly unambiguous. Now try to put some values in or manipulate the math expression and the plain language expression. You will see why you need the math.

Once you have recognised that you realy do require the math to fully describe and understand the subject that you like, just as you require the ability to read and write plain language, you will have given yourself a good reason for getting to grips with math.

There are, of course, some tricks in math that you need to remember. But also recognise that there are some tricks in spelling and grammer that are important to plain language.

Another thing to do is to look at the history of various bits of math that you have to learn. Find out who developed it and why, and then how it is used in other fields. You may even become actually interested in math and it's history.

Answer 3

To me, math is like a game. It's like solving puzzles - and I enjoy puzzles.

I have to disagree with the previous answer: In my experience at least, part of the key is to make sure you understand why the formulas work. If you just memorize formulas, you'll never see the beauty of what's actually going on, and odds are you'll misremember them when you need them. As an added bonus, if you have a solid grasp of why a formula works and where it came from, you won't need to memorize it: You end up being able to reconstruct it on the spot, whenever you need it. That's a very handy skill to have.

Nobody likes memorizing formulas and grinding through a worksheet with 40 identical problems, but there are teachers and curricula that present the math in a much more interesting and attractive way.

Answer 4

try to read some interesting books. That could help you see the beauty of this science and its usefulness. Math describes our world and it can be very interesting, when you think about it not as about horrible formulas and exercises, but about the language that god was speaking when creating the universe (as Galileo said "The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols").

Answer 5

MoonShadow is right. Memorize now, Understand later.

This worked for me in Calculus, and I made an A. I enjoyed it so much I took it again in college and made another A!

When you finally understand a difficult concept in math it gives you an 'aha!' feeling and it's great. It will motivate you to learn even more. Good luck!

Answer 6

Try to find the fun, enjoy the challenge. Math is nothing more than the relationship between numbers, from 1+1=2 all the way to theoretical calculus, its just the relationship between numbers.

Look for the "wow, thats cool" stuff:
Like this: The factors of 9 are 9,18,27....900..1233..25002.

The sum of the digits in a factor of 9 is 9.

So 5110110000 is evenly divisible by 9
so is 112002001002 evenly divisible by 9.

It may be 'lame' but its cool in a way.

Answer 7

As a physics significant myself, i will enable you understand that I in lots of cases get heckled with the help of math majors. In physics we make distinctive assumptions with regard to arithmetic and are slightly sloppy at cases. So, i will see why somebody who enjoys arithmetic won't like or additionally be puzzled with the help of physics.

Answer 8

looking at all of math a big puzzle? man, give a ******** break. if you want to do puzzles then do the junior jumble that comes in the newspaper; you don't a ph.d to do that. mathematicians don't usually become what they are because they like doing totallly ******** stupid puzzles. in order to enjoy mathematics to the fullest it helps to be autistic, like me. a lot of autistic people have a profound sensitivity and fascination with very general things like transformations, operations, and the like. some autisitic people find that the computational nature of mathematics and computer science resonates very deeply with something inside of them; it just "fits" with something inside of them. for "normal people" it may be more difficult to understand how computation can be so fascinating to the autistic person. if i didn't have autism i wouldn't be in a grad program for math and probably wouldn't do shi.t with my life but i do have it SO LINEAR OPERATORS IN HILBERT SPACE ALL THE WAY BABY YEAH BABY WE CAME HERE TO RAWK FUC.K YEAH SUCK MY BALLS YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

turn a math problem into a real world situation. Math can actually be a lot of fun, its all in how you look at it.