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Just a general question to anyone who finished high school as I still remember what forms of math you did or sucked at hte best.

I completely failed math mostly because I brought a solar power calculator into the dark exam hall and also because it impossible for me to do angles of any shape of form (especially bloody triangles!:mad:)

Just a general question to anyone who finished high school as I still remember what forms of math you did or sucked at hte best.

I sucked at all higher levels of maths. After the 6th grade, maths was nothing but a mental excercise, and I had a clear feeling that I will never, ever ever need anything of it in real life.
I wasn't brilliant at maths before, but after realising that I didn't give a damn about the whole thing any more.

If you mean Higher Mathematics, say so.
High Math sounds like something Father Ted would do. :D
Booze! Fick! Girlz!

If you mean Higher Mathematics, say so.
High Math sounds like something Father Ted would do. :D
Booze! Fick! Girlz!No one got the joke in the thread title.:eek:

Er, like ... you'd have to be drunk and stoned to suck at High Mass?
Did I miss anything ?

Shouldn't make fun of nerds, you know. Some day you might need one to save you from a dinosaur with their slide rule or something.

I had to take some remedial math (accidently typed remedial meth-though I took that too) when I started college. Fortunately by then my study habits had improved.

Since it is a multiple-answer poll, I was compelled to vote for everything. It is my nature, and it is therefore futile to focus your ire upon me, for it will change nothing.

Since it is a multiple-answer poll, I was compelled to vote for everything. It is my nature, and it is therefore futile to focus your ire upon me, for it will change nothing.Great you put my computerized logic center of my brain in an infinite loop.

Great you put my computerized logic center of my brain in an infinite loop.

Oh my, I hope you still have enough memory left to terminate that process, otherwise your whole system could crash.

I was best at algebra. I was also in all those "Math Stretch" programs, and scored in the top 7% of Canada in both grades nine and ten for those nation-wide math tests. (Pascal and Cayley, respectively.)

But I didn't enjoy them, so I dropped Math in grade 12, and am now an English major. :p

Calculus? Makes perfect sense!
Geometry? Very straightforward.

Algebra? No. I refuse. Go away!

I'm doing 2 A levels (we take 3 or 4 at 18) in it, but i've never liked geometry.
Calculus is neat, though.

I'm still a junior in high school right now. I finished my two years of Algebra and one year of geometry with very high A's (usually above 100%; I took Algebra I in middle school, but it counted for high school credit, which is how I had three years of math in two years of high school. Most of the college-bound students at my school who are good or decent at math do it that way, too.)

I just finished the semester of Pre-Caclulus (for college and high school credit) and just started the semester of Trig (which also is for both high school and college credit.) I'm going to take AP Calculus next year, and I'm considering taking AP Stats as well.

was good at algebra
then calculus

absolutely sucked monkey balls of the highest magnitude at business maths (I hated the whole concept of it and just could not comprehend it, I would read the words annual income and gross percentage and just shut down with a response of f-off).

I didnt like area/volume or anything to do with angles. I prefered doing out the equations and plotting the results. Much more satisfying.

Guess it doesnt quite count but propositional calculus was very easy.

Overall though I sucked at maths.

Hmm Maths was never defined so strictly when I did it, it was just Maths. I remember being reasonable at all areas of it, I got an A at A level.

Calculus took me 2 attempts and the second attempt was only a D. First was a withdraw.

since this is multiple choice pool, i voted for every possible option.

I was slightly better at Mathematical Studies (Matrices, Calculus, Integration, Statistics), but I like Specialist Mathematics (Trig, Complex Numbers, Trig Calculus, Trig Integration) more.

I did not take any math, I took Viking raiding logistics/design instead

I did not take any math, I took Viking raiding logistics/design instead
lol

lol

It's much better. *nods*

I agree with all of you.

I've always enjoyed Discrete Mathematics, although I have no gift for it. I wish I had begun a more formalized and rigorous training in it when I was younger.

Once I'm ready, I would like to explore mathematical topology as well.

I did well in all the math classes I took in high school.

I am good at calculus, geometry and especially algebra. I now suck at addition/subtraction/multiplication/division, and that is were most of my errors come from. Usually I'll add two numbers (ie 5+7) and end up with one of the originals (ie 5)

Since it was mentioned, I scored 755th on the Fermat(two points outside the honour roll!), and I have no idea my position for the Cayley (they did not compile rankings based on score that year) but I scored 112.

I did not take the Pascel as Grade 10 was the first year I did Honours Math.

I sucked at math and hate it with a passion!

I was quite good at geometry.

Algebraic trigonometry was what got me. And considering that it's an essential part of Mathematics 12 in British Columbia, I didn't pass it the first time around. However, I retook it and got 85% at a community college even after telling my professor that I simply would refuse to do any algebraic trig questions.

My mind is simply not logical enough. I'm bad at chess because I can't see more than two or three moves into the future, and I've been playing for years.

Proofs that you have to write yourself also destroy me.

i was kind of good at everything math-related except for parts of what you guys seem to call calculus.

Just a general question to anyone who finished high school as I still remember what forms of math you did or sucked at hte best.

i sucked at most maths. still got a B at GCSE but still sucked. don't even know my fucking times-tables lol

I was pretty good at geometry, maybe average at everything else.

I got A's in everything............almost, Trig kicked my ass, I got a C.

Algebra? Easy.
Geometry? Piece of cake.
Trig? Come on, at least give me a challenge.
Cal... >>>>>>me. :(

To date, Calculus is the only class at my current school that I have had less than an A in... and believe me, having all A's except for a D (happened in the fall semesters of both junior and senior year, thanks to Cal I and Cal III) can be really annoying sometimes. :(

I did well in all my math classes in high school except for Calculus which I got a D. I'm pretty sure my high school calculus teacher made the class harder than the other calculus teachers because last semester in college I got an A in calculus and I barely even studied.

I did well in most areas of maths - except anything to do with measuring angles in a 3D object. I couldn't visualise it and I always ended up with really stupid answers.

I was decent at algebra (note the past tense) but beginning with geometry it all went down hill.

I'm not finding calculus to troublesome at the moment.

I like numbers :)

Since it is a multiple-answer poll, I was compelled to vote for everything. It is my nature, and it is therefore futile to focus your ire upon me, for it will change nothing.

Ditto

As an undergraduate math major, I excelled in all branches of mathematics... with the notable exception of statistics. I took one course called "Advanced Mathematical Statistics," and I just felt completely bewildered most of the time.

My favorite classes were Modern Algebra, Advanced Calculus, and Introduction to Complex Analysis.

:)

i was good at algebra until it got complicated. geometry was ok but i did have to get my little sister to help me with it later on. i never went passed GCSE level in maths so i don't know what calculus is, let's just assume i would be rubbish at it. what i really hated in maths was trigonometry, that shit is evil.

As an undergraduate math major, I excelled in all branches of mathematics... with the notable exception of statistics. I took one course called "Advanced Mathematical Statistics," and I just felt completely bewildered most of the time.

My favorite classes were Modern Algebra, Advanced Calculus, and Introduction to Complex Analysis.

:)
Complex analysis is fun. You know what I hated? PDE. I hated that class with a passion. It may have been the prof though, I have a sneaking suspicion I may have liked PDE a lot more if I'd had a different prof.

Complex analysis is fun. You know what I hated? PDE. I hated that class with a passion. It may have been the prof though, I have a sneaking suspicion I may have liked PDE a lot more if I'd had a different prof.Hmm, it's possible. I loved PDE... and, of course, it may have been largely the professor's fault that statistics befuddled me. He was an arrogant prick who actually enjoyed torturing us. I remember one day he gave this speech about how there were two things he hated in the world: squirrels (odd story behind that), and a particular equation relating to a binormal probability distribution. Regarding the latter, he told us that one of the few tests he failed as a college student involved his having to perform calculations using that very complex equation--from memory.

It appeared from his tone that we should sympathize--and surely he would never do such a thing to us, having suffered it himself.

He proceeded to announce that we should have it memorized for a quiz at the next class meeting.

:headbang:

Hmm, it's possible. I loved PDE... and, of course, it may have been largely the professor's fault that statistics befuddled me. He was an arrogant prick who actually enjoyed torturing us. I remember one day he gave this speech about how there were two things he hated in the world: squirrels (odd story behind that), and a particular equation relating to a binormal probability distribution. Regarding the latter, he told us that one of the few tests he failed as a college student involved his having to perform calculations using that very complex equation--from memory.

It appeared from his tone that we should sympathize--and surely he would never do such a thing to us, having suffered it himself.

He proceeded to announce that we should have it memorized for a quiz at the next class meeting.

:headbang:
Professors can be evil like that.

I think half the reason I disliked my PDE prof so much was because he was perfectly unintelligible. With one exception, all my math professors were Russian, Indian or Chinese, with very thick accents.

Professors can be evil like that.

I think half the reason I disliked my PDE prof so much was because he was perfectly unintelligible. With one exception, all my math professors were Russian, Indian or Chinese, with very thick accents.That does seem to come with the territory in math. I escaped, for the most part, because I went to a very small school as an undergrad. I had one instructor from Spain, and people always complained that they couldn't understand her, but I think that was just an excuse. She was one of my favorites. (I had her for Advanced Calculus and Modern Algebra, TWO of the courses I list as the overall best!!)

Of course, all my math professors had their "quirks." One guy dressed like a lumberjack and sniffed like a coke-head... which he was. He also used to offer me Jack Daniels in his office before class. Still, one of my favorites, and I probably took him for more classes than any other professor... He taught Calc I, Calc III, PDE, and Complex Analysis.