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I really don't understand how people could possibly struggle with maths. It's basically the easiest subject and yet so many people fail horribly. What gives?

>> No.8976494

Because people don't bother to practice it and then they complain that math's too hard.

Math is just doing stuff over and over until it becomes routine. Same for learning a different language.

>> No.8976671

>>8976456
>needing to practice
this thread is about you

>> No.8976675

>>8976456
I am good in physics but average in math

>> No.8976806

>>8976671
Practice is important. Otherwise you are just reading a novel about ideas.

>> No.8976852

called intrest boi

>> No.8976856

>>8976675
Same here. There are some concepts that I struggle with, though.

>> No.8977277

>>8976456
Math isn't difficult but it requires a lot of basic calculations that are repeated in a variety of orders and if you mess up at any step of a math equation, you'll get a substantially wrong answer. I'm not thorough and don't pay close enough attention to numbers because I see math as a redundant, strict study that is not fun or interesting at all.

But like the other people here are saying, if you practice it enough, math comes easily to anyone.

>> No.8977428

>>8976456
>I really want everyone to know that something you might struggle with I can do perfectly. Do you want to know my IQ?

>> No.8978392

brainlet here, I'm currently working on my math skill and for me its like reading a different language I'm slowly starting to understand because of the khan academy courses

>> No.8978447

>>8976456
Doesn't affect me in the slightest. Studying history. kek

>> No.8978501

>>8976456
The same reason you suck at other subjects that others excel at

People are different you unemphatic autist

>> No.8978519

Poor foundations means theyhave difficulty learning anything higher.

Either they were taught math terribly and never sought out how to do it on their own or they just fucked around too much.

>> No.8978680

>>8977277
Yea, even my professor who was finding the inverse of a 5x5 matrix fucked up because you have to do so much shit and if you fuck up in 1 spot everything after it is wrong.

>> No.8978705

>>8976456
Picture a massive ledge that you see some people born with a hang glider fly over to from one side of a canyon.
The rest have to walk because they don't have the resources or emotional fortitude to get to the other side.

>> No.8978763

>>8976456
Calculation-based math or proof-based math?