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I majored in CS and minored in Math (graduated in 2013) as someone who both struggled with math and was not the biggest fan of it. My biggest problem was simply
by rstat1 4y ago
I majored in CS and minored in Math (graduated in 2013) as someone who both struggled with math and was not the biggest fan of it. My biggest problem was simply caring about the subject matter. None of the instructors I've ever had for math courses put any effort in to showing what the particular subject was useful for. It was all just mechanical "Here's a type of problem", "Here's 100 examples of solving it" (of course I'm exaggerating this part but the point remains). Want my interest? Show me use cases. Don't just shove a ton of context-free examples in my face.
- yieldcrv 4y agoThat bugged me about math as well, no context. You mean to tell me the guy had an apple drop on his head and went to solving the three-body problem, unsuccessfully, and so thats why we are deriving integrals with no end in sight to the complexity? And then no matter what was said for 3 hours in class, the homework immediately throws curveballs at you in each problem, instead of reinforcing what was learned, hoping to teach you exceptions that were not covered There is not a large population this style of learning will hit with