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Math!

Jules

Hi, I am currently studying for some very important exams I'll be taking next year. I think it's like a polish version of your A-levels (I live in Poland). So, I love math, I really do. However, I do struggle with it. I'm slower than everyone else and I make stupid mistakes. I am way better at math than I used to be, say in secondary school, but the mistakes are still there. I made big headway since I was 16 years old and I believe that if I could to that then I am able to go even further. Now that I know I have Aspergers (so my troubles with math are not something extraordinary) maybe I could find a new way to approach improving my mathematical thinking. Did any of you struggle with math? What extra work did you put in your studying to make it better? Or any other advice?

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  • I was terrible at maths during highschool and failed it until the last couple of years I got good teachers and a grade A. I went on to study a masters degree in electrical engineering which had very high level maths. Sometimes it became ridiculously difficult like electromagnetic field equations. Some of the lecturers were good teachers and also Youtube helped me. To summarise it is possible, it just takes lots of study and practising questions. Also you don't need to get it all right, even 50% can be a pass in most places

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  • I was terrible at maths during highschool and failed it until the last couple of years I got good teachers and a grade A. I went on to study a masters degree in electrical engineering which had very high level maths. Sometimes it became ridiculously difficult like electromagnetic field equations. Some of the lecturers were good teachers and also Youtube helped me. To summarise it is possible, it just takes lots of study and practising questions. Also you don't need to get it all right, even 50% can be a pass in most places

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  • in reply to NAS62563

    When it comes to good teachers? There are two issues.

    1. Is the teacher good at teaching ?
    2. Does the teacher have the technical knowledge of the subject they are trying to teach?

    Life is hard, they need both.

    At school I had teachers which were simultaneously good & bad.

    At A level, my first Statistics teacher was good at teaching what she knew, but  she would probably have failed the exams she was preparing us for.  She taught what she knew for the first four months, then gave up and admitted to the class that she didn't understand the rest of the syllabus.