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When I went back to school I had to take math again, which wasn't my best subject in school. I was determined to figure out why I could understand the material,
by c3534l 7y ago
When I went back to school I had to take math again, which wasn't my best subject in school. I was determined to figure out why I could understand the material, yet consistently never quite did as well as I thought I should have on tests. So I kept a journal of every mistake I made so I could categorize them and understand them. Most of the mistakes were very specific handwriting mistakes, but they were very particular to how I personally tended to write things. By changing how I wrote a few numbers and letters, I eliminated all of those mistakes. I didn't have to come up with an overly elaborate system that puts way too much thought (and not enough evidence) like in the OP. It was quite surprised that I tended to mistake 7s, qs and 9s (if the loop is too small and there's another character written above it, you can misread some of my more atrocious attempts at writing 9), or that I would fail to properly coil the 6 and make it look like an overly spiraled 0. Meanwhile, I never once mistook a 1 for a 7 and my solution to the letter O is just to never, ever use them in math.
My advice is actually that mistake journal: it was the single best thing I ever did for a math class. Figure out what mistakes are actually happening and develop a system or habit to avoid that actual mistake.
- _0ffh 7y ago>my solution to the letter O is just to never, ever use them in math That seems reasonable. My solution was to slash my zeros, to the point that it takes conscious effort not to.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoHow do you visually differentiate nulls from zeroes? That's what stopped me from slashing my zeroes, I've considered dotting them, but it's not relevant for me anymore. I slash my 7s though, and form my 1 like that character, I don't miss off the up-tick. Primarily nowadays I'm writing on a tablet and need to be very precise to make it readable.
- _0ffh 7y ago>How do you visually differentiate nulls from zeroes? My zero is a continuous line, starting top right and angling sharply left-down after a ~360° oval. That nicely makes it writable in one fluid motion. My null/empty set is a somewhat smaller circle and a separate slash starting and ending visibly outside the circle.
- dhimes 7y agoMy advice is actually that mistake journal: it was the single best thing I ever did for a math class. Figure out what mistakes are actually happening and develop a system or habit to avoid that actual mistake. I've never heard of this before. That's a very cool idea.