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[Anonymous No.4590988]

Does anyone else hate trig?

God that stuff is boring.

[Anonymous No.4590993]

sadly enough i do not remember my first year in high school

[Anonymous No.4591033]

>>4590993
Not even the second time?

[Anonymous No.4591044]

>>4590993
I do

[Anonymous No.4591062]

Trig's fun, yo. Just have to get adjusted to it. Gets especially fun when in conjunction with calculus.

[Anonymous No.4591065]

Trig is the most important math class you will ever take. If you plan on doing anything in engineering or physics you have to be a fucking trig wizard. If you cant do it you should kill yourself now so your faulty genes dont get passed on.

[Anonymous No.4591091]

>>4591065
I never said it was difficult, it's just boring. I understand all of it.

[Anonymous No.4591098]

>>4591091
What about it is boring? Perhaps finding something more difficult if trig isn't giving you a challenge.

[Anonymous No.4591104]

>>4591098
It seems like it's all plug and chug, there seems to be nothing majorly interesting in it other than waves and vectors. I've found more entertainment in algebra and calc.

[Anonymous No.4593137]

>>4590993
You didnt take trig until highschool?
American spotted.

[Anonymous No.4593309]

>>4593137
Irish, we don't take trig til highschool either.
Nigger.

[Anonymous No.4593327]

That's because all of the trig you have done maybe was about proving identities and solbing equations with. The truth is that trigonometric functions are tremendously interesting and solve a lot of physical problems

[Anonymous No.4593413]

The reason that trig is so mind-numbingly boring for so many people is that it's 2 weeks worth of material that's pumped up and inflated to a half semester to a full semester.

[Anonymous No.4593425]

>>4593309
Swedish. Didn't take trig until high-school either.

[Anonymous No.4593447]

Trig theory is actually one of the most intuitive and easy to understand things in math. It just... makes sense, because it's based on a visual and perceivable model.

However, the trigonometric math problems that come with it, are the most daunting, dull and mind-numbingly boring thing ever.

[Anonymous No.4593465]

>>4593137
Canadian here. Basic trig (triangles and what-not) are in elementary. Sin, Cos, Tan are first year high school, then we skip a year, and go back to more advanced trig in gr.11 when taking functions, then 12 in advanced functions and calculus if i remember correctly.

[Anonymous No.4593471]

>>4590988
I fucking love trig. Fucking resolving forces and shit,
>>4590993
That's not how the future tense works

[Anonymous No.4593491]

>That feel when I never took trig in high school

;_;

[Anonymous No.4593495]

>>4593491
you need to.

When you learn it at first it's kinda boring, but after that it's fucking magical.

[Anonymous No.4593505]

Trig is cool.

Trig classes are the most boring things ever.

It seriously takes maybe a couple weeks to understand everything. Yet for some reason they make you do the same shit for weeks and weeks and it becomes incredibly boring.

In my high school trig class, I was always the top student, yet I never understood what the fuck I was doing. No context was given. If I were asked "what is trigonometry" after the class was finished I would have said "doing random shit with triangles that is applicapble to not much of anything".

It wasn't until a year or so later I decided to figure out what Trig actually was, and actually found out what sine, cosine, and tangent are, because my Trig teacher felt those questions were rather unimportant.

So don't feel bad for thinking a math class is boring. Because the vast majority of math classes are boring.

[Anonymous No.4593524]

>>4593505
In my experience math classes are either:

1. Learning awesome shit about awesomeness and having my mind blown daily with its applicability to everything ever.

2. Rote memorization of piles of seemingly unrelated formulas and theorems that make me hate life and math.

Trig classes tend to have a lot of (2) where you memorize identities and such. There's also a chunk of freshman calculus where you're doing methods of integration. Same thing. A good teacher can ease the pain of (2) a little but it's still a slog. Unfortunately you can't usually apply (1) without remembering a lot of (2).

[Anonymous No.4593526]

>>4593505
This guy is absolutely right. By all means read a textbook, but play around with stuff like this: http://www.geogebra.org/en/upload/files/Jackie_Doyle/Technology_GeogebraActivityFinal.html too. Get an intuitive feel for trigonometry.