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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer
Oh goodie! My first volunteer to help! 
It's not that I'm scared of math, it's that I suck at math. Always have. My brain doesn't process it in a way that is understandable.
I took a Stats class at OCC, was getting tutoring (by a 16 y/o) and had to drop it.
We'll see. I am taking it in the summer, so I can take it again in the fall if I need to. |
BTD, FWIW, I've always had an easier time getting through my maths in summer courses. I have similar troubles with math (took me 2 tries
per semester to get through Algebra I in jr. high/high school, 3 tries to pass Algebra II in high school/college), but every time I made it through with a passing grade was in a summer course. Incidentally, I eventually got smart - took college algebra as a summer course and passed on the first try, but not without much personal wrangling and a few talks with the instructor to explain what kind of help I was looking for when I raised my hand during his lectures.
My biggest problem with math classes is that I don't "speak" math, and math professors, of course, do. They assume you know/remember/can apply things that I can't necessarily, and since we don't "speak" the same language, they have a very hard time understanding what I'm asking so they often just repeat themselves without offering any new info. What helped me was to speak with the prof early on in the course, and let him know that my problem was often that of communication, and that I have to write down absolutely every step (including those they skip because they think we can make the logical leap on our own), and that if I ask a question, I'll be very direct about the info I need, and if he can use different words to answer my question, then often that will do it. Oh, I remember... I explained to him that while he speaks "math", I speak "verbal"... and so what I had to do in note taking was to translate everything he was saying in his "math" language, into my "verbal" language, and write that in my notes to be re-read and actually processed later.
If that sounds familiar, BTD, I'd try that.
If not, find out when their office hours are, and be there every week. I think that's how I passed financial markets (which sounds cool but ended up being the highly mathematical process of options pricing - eek!). I'm almost positive it was a pity C
