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I had a humbling experience last year when I browsed the available courses until I found one that only contained math I'm already familiar with and I had to go
by pault 8y ago
I had a humbling experience last year when I browsed the available courses until I found one that only contained math I'm already familiar with and I had to go all the way back to fourth year elementary school. :/
- dexter_t 8y agoHow were you able to determine what level you were at?
- pault 8y agoI started at precalculus and worked my way back until I found a video that didn't assume I already knew something I don't already know.
- ambicapter 8y agoCould be that you know a lot of maths at a higher level than that, but your education just has a lot of holes in it.
- pault 8y agoIf only that were true. :) I only know cross multiplication and basic arithmetic, excepting long division.
- jahbrewski 8y agoWe all start somewhere! One of the beauties of math is it’s hierarchical structure. Once you figure out where you’re at, it’s just a matter of progressing further up the hierarchy of abstraction (spoken by someone who has only made it to Calculus in the hierarchy)
- mrkstu 8y agoI run into this every time I help my kids with their math homework- even for subjects I thought I had learned comprehensively their curriculum covers branches/approaches I've never seen before, down to elementary school work.
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoThat was my experience. I took through calculus in high school, but that was a lot of years ago. I discovered my trig and logs were very weak, and started back at algebra 2 and worked my way forward. A lot of it was review, but a lot of it felt completely new to me.
- scarecrowbob 8y agoI'm in the middle of a very similar experience.
- vaughnegut 8y agoI went back to school for CS, and ended up taking courses starting at Grade 10 math as prereqs so that I could rebuild my math knowledge. Even the start of that was rough, since I hadn't done math in a long, long time. By the end of the course, I was much stronger. What I'm trying to say is that you've made a good decision by jumping way back. Once thing I realized pretty quickly is that to do well in math, you need to know the prior content pretty well. And for the next thing, the current content pretty. And so on. If you can stay on top of it, it 's a lot less challenging (and more interesting).