fatslob-:O on 03 April 2016
| Superquagsire said: I have take Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, a semester of Math Studies, and am currently in Probability and Statistics. I really enjoyed Algebra 1 and Geometry and Im liking Prob and Stat right now, but I'm noticing that it really depends on the teacher who teaches me if I enjoy math or not. I found that for some reason math taught at a higher level refuses to explain the basics again in order to understand the more complex theories. Also They spend little to no time putting the math we are learning now into perspective with the other math we have already learned. Simple things like vocab terms help me tremendously in understanding the math we are learning yet they just don't teach it. It's as if they expect us to remember everything we have learned perfectly. Sorry Algebra 2 teacher, I don't remember everything from Algebra 1. Also instead of just teaching us how to do the problem, teach us the background of why we are doing these problems and to how these problems stemmed from other problems. It's really infuriating. My current teacher from Prob and Stat put it really well: "I'm always re-learning the material and vocab so I also do the same with you" She always gives us vocab and other things to really help us understand the material and its great. I could write a whole essay about this but ill just end it here. |
The reason why we don't do a lot of review in post-secondary mathematics is ideally because it's simply more productive to cover new material ...
I've personally never felt the need to remember all the previous minute details for higher mathematics since losing some memories of the material covered in highschool algebra so I'm not sure if your over exaggerating. We are learning the background (sometimes) but you maybe in luck if your school has a course in history of mathematics ...
