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    Wednesday, September 17, 2008

    Why I Really, Really Hate Math

    1. It makes me feel stupid bordering on incompetent.  I excelled in math in high school, was in honors, until I hit calculus.  Most of college math is just like calculus.  
    2. I have to take it as a pre-requisite for computer science.  
      1. The problem expressed mathematically is:
        1. A= {Computer Science}
        2. B = {Computer Science Math Pre-Requisites}
        3. Relevance = A ⋂ ≤ 0.0000000000001
    Math = (Memory Recall of lots of arcane tricks and shortcuts) * (abstract concepts).  It is the random memory recall that kills me because these tests are all closed book, no notes.

    Saying all of this after I just at best got a 50% on a test worth 15% of my grade in Math105 - Pre Calc.  I really studied and thought I had at least an 80% mastery of the content.  The time pressure and test pressure makes a lot of that go out the window.

    1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    try a philosophical logic class sometime. i sure wish I could remember even enough to translate a jokey sentence here. If math is at all like logic, once you've committed the symbols to memory, the exercises become useful to increase your critical thinking powers, no?