/sci/ - Science & Math

It's like handwriting. Posturing brainlets will work hard to get good at because they're overcompensating. Actually intelligent don't care, because they're busy thinking about more important things.

>>8616293

Oh sounds great then. Yeah, I think a lot of people have this problem.

Has this ever happened to you?

It's happening to me. I'm understanding more esoteric concepts, writing more proofs and such, but sometimes basic ass calculations are tedious to do. I haven't used a calculator in over two years and I'm helping my cousin with long division with ridiculous numbers(hundred thousands, millions, etc).

This feels contradictory. How am I in graduate school for mathematics, yet pic related is how I feel sometimes. Word problems are fine and the logic's cool, but still.

Just weird.

If it's any consolation math students are invariably worse at mental arithmetic after completing their degree than when
beginning it. And mathematicians who are bad at it are a lot more common than you think.

Play Raindrops if you want practice:
http://playgully.rediff.com/raindrops/205

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oh also.

What kind of math is this? People who do math for a living aren't doing the same kind of math problems engineers do. If the test is more around that skill level it's not surprising that even mathematicians might not score quite as well as they would if it were a test on some more advanced field.

Pic very related.

has this ever happened to anyone? pic related.

i was tutoring a kid recently and although i was able to answer most of his questions nonchalantly, a word problem came up which baffled me for quite some time. in fact, i wasn't able to solve it(at that time) because i just found it fucking ridiculous. only two sentences, too.

anyone else have that issue?

for the record, i just graduated recently with a B.S. in math and i'm attending graduate school. A grades in all my classes.

all of these quotes appear to be from just a typical troll from the era in which they were quoted. nothing mindblowing about this list, nor particularly in-depth. i like the idea, but i'd prefer something a little more factual.

op i find math to be the easiest subject to study for. the reason for this is simple: you know what you're going to be tested on. i'm not saying you're always going to know the specific questions and problems that will be on the test, but you know what chapters, sections, and materials you will be tested on.

first off, let me state that you are probably fluent with using the internet. use this to your advantage. google ANYTHINg you're having trouble with, ESPECIALLY youtube videos. they help. more than you will ever know.

now for instance, say you're being tested on chapter 10. chapter 10 is composed of maybe 6 sections. go through and read these sections. digest it. do the example problems while you're reading through the section, and then compare your answers, or if you got stuck, then read over and see why you got stuck. with math, it's not always about cranking out an answer; if you want to do well on a test, you'll know multiple methods to which you will arrive at the answer. learn these methods. once you understand what you're doing (which is often overlooked) and why the method shown works, you'll become more infatuated with the process than the answer.

after you've read through all of the sections and are able to do 90% of the problems, go back to the ones you had trouble with and do some odd examples from the problem sections (so that you can compare your answer).

sup /sci/

I have a tale for you;
Before I went to university I use to spend a lot of my time studying from textbooks, I'm pretty well versed in classical mechanics and some quantum mechanics, I know a decent amount about general relativity and I know a decent amount about statistical mechanics, along the maths involved in these. I recently started at university, which takes me about 2 hours to get to and back, and I'm finding it tedious as hell, not because it's hard but because it's all so basic and because it's cutting into the time I usually would have spend studying new material. Well now I've started to lose my motivation to continue learning new material, every time I sit down to start on one of Lifshitz books I end up procrastinating and I find myself doing anything other than the coursework I should be doing.. instead, for the past 2 hours I just wrote a little AI in flash that patrols an area either horizontally or vertically depending on which is widest, if the played comes near and player_footsound is true the AI will become more alert so that its vision radius and subtended angle increase, if the player gets spotted the AI goes from AIstate=0 to AIstate=1, where the AI knows where the player is and finds a path to the player (didn't get this part to be perfect, sometimes if theres a certain curve in the boundary the AI will start doing circles), if the player manages to get out of the vision range of the AI the location of the player at that moment is saved and the AI goes to that position and starts to patrol there if aggresive=0, if aggresive=1 then the AI searches for the player (so far it's just a random search)

Anyway, morale of the story;
I studied a lot before I went to university and now I feel extremely unmotivated to do anything constructive with my time and keep procrastinating

any advice on how to get remotivated?

pic unrelated but from my limited experience very true

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