math sucks?

Question

I have an intense hatred of math. I hate it with a passion. I'm good at it, and am considered gifted in it. I understand it extremely easily. But I can't stand it. It stresses me out. I pull my hair out, chew my nails to little nubs, and just stare at the page. Does anyone else feel the same way I do? I mean loathe every part of it?

I'm only in algebra 1, so I shudder to think of myself in calculus!

I have an IQ of like 180 in there, and I hate it, its boring and most of what im learning rite now is useless!!! Im serious, I dont know how many times in life I'm going to have to make a matrix!!! GRRR

I can do math, I just dislike it. I know its inevitable, and I do plan on being either an author, scientist studying Antarctica, (yes, I do know this will require a lot of math) or psychiatrist, which will also require a lot of math. I know I 'm just going to have to deal with my loathing of the subject. I just thought I'd rant a bit on the subject!

Answer 1

I don't want to advise suicide, but it did come to mind. Math is UNAVOIDABLE in real life.

You just proved that you can't be an engineer of any sort, you can't work in the architecture or construction field and you can't be a doctor or any sort. All of those require physics which is complex math full of word problems (which is probably what you hate the most). Some of them require calculus which will be even worse.

So that means you can try history or English. You can't be a farmer or a few dozen other professions; you are really limiting your future careers. In fact every math problem I have found in real life is not only a word problem it is an algebra problem as well. Like when you need to figure out your budget for the month you know your total income and you then need to find how many variables you can spend on your bills, what you need for gas and food and if you can splurge on something else.

I tried architecture and wanted to avoid math because algebra was hell for me. It took me 4 times to finally pass calculus. Most of the people I knew in school had to take even more math and we all had to take physics which is just math in different situations; statics, dynamics, velocity, acceleration; nuclear decay rate, hydrodynamics etc. All of that required math and because I wasn’t an engineer I only had to worry about the algebra version not the calculus version. Isaac Newton invented physics, which became the fundamental formulas for all of our advanced technology. To describe physics and to calculate the values at every point Isaac Newton had to invent calculus. The standard velocity and acceleration equations we learn in school are only valid for one point, to find out the value for the entire trip you need calculus.

Marketing and business will deal with math as the do market analysis, research and simple polling. Even a farmer has to know how much feed to order, how much feed he needs for his animals, or how many gallons of gas he is going to use to harvest his crop and what his minimum price is going to be to make a profit. I have a hard time thinking of a field that doesn’t require math. Even English; when you calculate the readability of a document you need to count the number of syllables used, and newspapers and magazines pay so many cents per word. You are either going to have to embrace math or learn to deal with insanity happily. Good luck.

One big failure in school was that they never taught us just how IMPORTANT math really is. I was not prepared for college. I can’t boast the IQ that you have, but I do qualify for genius level, so I wasn’t stupid; but simple algebra was a huge roadblock to me in grade school and calculus proved to be even harder. No, I don’t know what use a matrix will be in real life, except in code creation and cracking. Of course quantum computing will allow more than one variable in a single bit so that will need matrix math, but we haven’t reached that point yet. If found calculus wasn’t often needed, but it did tell me where the formulas all came from. Everything is related to F=ma. That simple equation describes every since equation used in physics; every single one is either a version of it or an integral of it. Even e=mc^2 is just another variation. To call math vital to higher understanding is to say water is kind of important to have for life. Every where we find water on Earth we find life. Math is so important to higher understanding that it weaves a complex fabric through it all. Quantum Chemistry is the fundamental nature of the universe, and the way all modern chemistry is calculated. That reaches into any organic fields and then into structures, hydrodynamics, material strength, drafting, perspective drawing, the list of fields that use math is endless and so much of it is connected. For example if I wanted to draw a building with a column of hardened steel I need to figure out the weight of the steel, how much it can support, then I need to know material science to calculate the point of failure and safety factor. I need to know what type of column to specify so I need to understand how much and what other chemicals are added to create hardened steel, and if the beam is going to be a bridge or part of a skyscraper I need to know how to calculate the wind load on the structure. It is all connected and math is the fiber that connects it. So either get over your hatred of math or become a monk and go meditate in a cell; but don’t join an order that creates wine for you will need to calculate the soil mix, the structure to hold the vines, the mix for the vats… Come to think of it the inventor of modern Genetics, Mendel was a monk and he found the 4:1 ratio that determines… Sorry, I don’t want to throw any more math at you.

EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR has to have advanced math, chemistry and organic chemistry, you might be able to escape calculus though. But, most psychiatrists don’t see patients for long, they see them for 15 minutes and prescribe drugs which means they have to calculate the effective dose based on the problem the person’s weight, the effectiveness of the drug… Sorry I am getting into math again.

Answer 2

I used to hate math and suck at it to. And what's weird is that my way of thinking is very mathematical but the entire time I hated math because it was the one subject where I actually had to study to pass. What's also funny is that now I'm in Pre-Caculus(a completely optional class to take btw) at my highschool and I completely understand the material. It is the first math class I've taken since 6th grade where I can honestly say that I absolutely understand everything we've coverd so far. I look forward to going to math class. It just takes a little extra time studying. I go to this site from time to time just to see if I can answer people's questions correctly on my own sheet of paper. If you have your studybook just work though the chapters you have trouble with and look for the answers at the back of the book.

Answer 3

I was good at math when I was in school. IQ of 196 in it. It was extremely easy for me. I found it at times to be boring, but I didn't loathe it. It just wasn't challenging.

Oh, and like the above person, I did hate doing proofs. Having to meticulously write all of that out when I could solve it all in my head in a second was torture.

Additional: Well, what I would do in class is homework from other classes while the teacher spoke, then finish the math assignment when given at the end of the period.

If you can avoid doing so, then skip taking trigonometry. It's mainly just a combination of algebra and geometry, both of which you take before you would take trigonometry. For me it was a complete waste of time.

Answer 4

I loathe doing proof's!!

Answer 5

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