I looove maths! I find it really easy, so i have to go at a super fast pace or else i get bored and stop paying attention, so im teaching myself the a level in one year instead of two. Further maths is ok because thers only three of us so we go faster, although i still get frustrated sometimes.
Ive had good teachers and bad teachers and it hasnt mattered because im stubborn and get what i want out of them in the end by making a pest of myself if they dont give me challenges.
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Because in maths the answer is either right or wrong. Unlike a more subjective course, in maths you either get it right or you don't.
Now that I think about it, that's why I enjoyed maths so much, even though I was bad at it. I didn't have to think too deeply, I just had to know what I was doing to get the right answer. And if I got it wrong, the objectivity and structured-ness of maths usually meant that I could pinpoint exactly where I went wrong, and learn from it.
That sort of thing is much harder in, say, English (which was, ironically, my best and favourite subject).
I suppose I love maths because it, vastly more often than not, has a defined right answer. I didn't like it when my GCSE English Literature teacher said "there's no right or wrong answer".
I also relate most things in my life to numbers. Maths is logical and makes sense to me.
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I always have a need to know "why" to do something and not just "what" to to do. Maths teachers more than others will tell students what to do but are bad at explaining the why of it. .
Awful. Though it didnt help that I was bullied the worse during maths, and I found it hard to concentrate when I was being bullied. The only time I did good was when I was separated and taught alone.
I tried my maths GCSE 6 times and got the same grade each time, so that told me I would never pass.
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I quite like Maths. I'm pretty good at understand the concepts and things so I can do algebra and statistics and stuff and understand it reasonably well. I like to know the "why" for things, but when it comes to Maths (and stats especially) I'm happy just to know what to do because it's simpler than understanding why.
I got B at A level maths, yet can still lose count trying to count to 10!
My GCSE maths teachers ranged from ok, to awful. There weren't any really good maths teachers. My college maths teachers were pretty awful too.
Awful. Though it didnt help that I was bullied the worse during maths, and I found it hard to concentrate when I was being bullied. The only time I did good was when I was separated and taught alone.
I tried my maths GCSE 6 times and got the same grade each time, so that told me I would never pass.
This is what happened to me. The bullying I experienced from several boys in my maths class was really bad and nothing was done by the teacher/senior teachers to address it. I ended up having to move to a lower set, which was sort of bad but sort of good because a close friend was in that class so it was better. I got told I was under achieving though and it makes me feel quite sad on reflection. I wasn't able to reach my potential but did pass at GCSE although I've been left with a mental block when it comes to maths. I did an OU course in maths to help tackle my gremlins and it has helped with my confidence.
Maths at GCSE I hated it.
I actually have just re-done adult maths leel 2 which is GCSE standard and actually really struggled.
I remember in y7 (11-12 years) I had 6 maths teachers in a year.
My favourite maths teacher was in y8 he was on supply for a year and then came back on contract in year 10/11 I sat with him at lunch times.
I ****ing HATED maths! I was never any good with it but it seemed as I got older it just got worse. Some areas of it I would be okay with and others I would be **** awful and fail everytime I had to take a test. Think one test I got 1 out of 10 right and it actually didn't upset me as I knew I wouldn't have done well.
I left school with an E in maths as I was that bad at it. In classes my teacher would ask, "Does anyone not understand what I just said?" and I always put my hand up and she patiently explained but I just could not understand anything she said, it was like another language to me and eventually she ignored me when I put my hand up and it was so frustrating. ¬_¬
Now that I think about it, that's why I enjoyed maths so much, even though I was bad at it. I didn't have to think too deeply, I just had to know what I was doing to get the right answer. And if I got it wrong, the objectivity and structured-ness of maths usually meant that I could pinpoint exactly where I went wrong, and learn from it.
That sort of thing is much harder in, say, English (which was, ironically, my best and favourite subject).
^agreed. In school, I used my maths homework as a sort of rest/break, it was something I didn't need to think about, it was all logical steps that made perfect sense, it was obvious why you're doing what you're doing. I'm convinced that with a lot of maths, you either get it or you don't. I remember trying to explain the reasoning behind the solution to problems to classmates, and in many cases, they just couldn't get their head around it, because they were more inclined towards humanities, and I've very much a mathsy brain.
I remember in preschool (which was up to age 6 in Lithuania) trying to get the teacher to give me extra maths problems because I was bored, but she wouldn't. She got me to explain maths to the other kids instead. :P
I'm not sure I actually liked maths, but the As at GCSE and A-level indicate I was good at it. Don't think my school maths teachers were that good, I was kept out of the top class until the final year because of my readable but untidy handwriting. I actually started my year 7 maths in the bottom set, moved up to middle the next year, then the newly created top middle, finally reaching top in the 4th/10th year and in the final year taking the extra classes for the top of the top class to take the higher paper.
My A level teacher was brilliant, taught us some basic sign language, joked about, told stories, divided infinities and proved 1=0 (something to do with trigonometry, squares and mixing equations)
Didn't do further maths, had enough to do with physics (B) and computing (the entire first year wasted, then 2 years of teaching crammed into the second year, at least 1 U in an exam As for coursework and ending with a C, but that was the college that messed it up, also the only class I was sent out off, but that's another story)
Then the maths at uni, can't really comment on the teachers as I had no real interaction with them, went to lectures, did the exercises, passed the exams, but that was just the first year we did any pure maths and it was all still pretty easy stuff, the rest of the course was maths mixed in with programming as it was a 3d computer graphics programming course - some of the equations used for illumination are crazy big
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Whilst reading this I was thinking that I had been told that people who tend to be good at humanities tend to be really bad at sciencey type stuff, and visa versa, and from what some of you are saying it seems to be the case.
I am a humanities type person but I was also pretty good at science/maths stuff. I enjoyed maths in school, although we had different teachers every year which was confusing, but my tutor when i was in year 8 was awesome, she would sit with you if you didn't undertsand something and go through it with you until you got it.
Oddly I was quite bad at things like mental arithmatic, but grasped things like quadratic formulas pretty quickly.
Also, due to personal problems in my GCSE year I ended up only getting a C grade (which was upsetting as I was predicted an A). AS Level I completley failed- Decision maths I got a D, but my other modules I go 11/100 and 12/100!
The only reason I ever enjoyed math class was when my friends were in my class which was pretty much all the time in elementary and middle school and I did relatively well in math [okay well I basically barely passed with a C].
Once I got into high school math got extremely hard for me and I ended up failing the class twice. The teacher was okay but he never helped me out and none of my friends were in that class so I spent most of my time bored out of my mind. All those fractions and numbers and letters really just confused me gah stupid math.
The one thing I hate about school is how boring the classes are I mean I loved English for many reasons but one of them was that my teacher was amazing and she always took the time to talk to me and offer for me to stay after school so I could make up my work. Basically she was supportive and made class fun for me.
None of my other teachers cared about helping me out and they were just boring and never tried to make class interesting. My math teacher basically wrote stuff on the board and than gave us worksheets to do and would sit at his desk and I am pretty sure I saw him sleeping a few times.
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I totally loved maths in school, was one of the subjects I actually enjoyed to be in along with all the sciences! However it was made easier by doing advanced higher for two weeks then going back down into higher as it taught me all the short cuts to everything I already knew :P I loved every aspect of it from trig to algebra and things, most definately my favourite subject!
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When I had Maths for GCSE I did well, although I had an awful teacher, but once I stopped doing Maths reguarly and only had to deal with it in Biology and Chemistry, it became alot harder because my brain wasn't used to doing it alot.
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I suppose I love maths because it, vastly more often than not, has a defined right answer. I didn't like it when my GCSE English Literature teacher said "there's no right or wrong answer".
I also relate most things in my life to numbers. Maths is logical and makes sense to me.
I've already posted, but I was stalking the thread, and i completely agree :) I like the fact the answer is either right or wrong, and there is a specific way of working things out, also as you said I also relate life to maths! And strongly believe everything has maths at its core :P
Also just out of interest, many people have said they didn't have great maths teacher, was it just maths teachers that weren't very good? Or other subjects as well? Also why don't you think they were very good? Sorry i'm slightly nosy and just wondering :)
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Also just out of interest, many people have said they didn't have great maths teacher, was it just maths teachers that weren't very good? Or other subjects as well? Also why don't you think they were very good? Sorry i'm slightly nosy and just wondering :)
My teacher in 5th and 6th year was very good, but my 2nd and 3rd year teacher wasn't. He'd assume that if some people understood something then everyone must understand it, and he'd move on. And if you were one of the people that didn't understand, he'd assume you were being lazy. My 5th/6th year teacher would actually sit with someone having trouble and patiently explain things to them. I've always believed that a class is only as good as its worst student, and she evidently agreed because she always took the time to bring the slower students (like me) up to speed, which my 2nd/3rd year teacher would never do.
I don't think it matters what subject you teach, it's your approach to teaching that counts. A good teacher can make a subject that some people find boring (like maths) at least somewhat bearable, and a bad teacher can suck the life out of an enjoyable subject.
Also just out of interest, many people have said they didn't have great maths teacher, was it just maths teachers that weren't very good? Or other subjects as well? Also why don't you think they were very good? Sorry i'm slightly nosy and just wondering :)
Nah I had some awful teachers for GCSE/A-Level. My Chemistry A-Level teachers failed their A-Level and barely scraped a pass the second time, by halfway through year 13 they weren't able to answer our questions.
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I really liked maths, and i was really good at it. I just liked other subjects more so didn't take it beyond GCSE, i got A's, and started with A*'s but I liked messing around a bit too much so my grade fell.
I think maths is a basic life skill, like reading and writing and hated it when others kids would be like "whhhyyy? when am i ever going to need X and Y or algebra" surprisingly you need maths in a quite a lot of things.
I used to do long sums to calm myself down because it's consuming and an avenue for OCD perfectionism - very nice.
