I'm taking Quantitative Methods, which is... well, here:
Mathematics 103 prepares students to be quantitatively literate citizens in today's world. By learning to think critiically about quantitative issues, students will be able to make responsible decisions in their daily lives. Problems are analyzed and solved using numerical, graphical, statistical, and algebraic reasoning. Technology is used to help visualize data and facilitate calculations, as well as to present quantitative output and verbal arguments.
The reason I'm taking THAT class is because it's the one math class I can take that completely fills the math requirement. There are other classes I can take, but they mean having to take TWO math classes, and no. One is more than enough.
We were mainly doing things like interpreting data from graphs and creating graphs in Excel from data tables in the beginning, and I was fine with that, but this last homework assignment involved MATH. Like, equations and formulas and crap. And I totally lost all my confidence, because I am TERRIBLE at that stuff. I can't grasp it. I think Henry will see that something's off. I told him at the beginning that I suck at math, and I think it's been kind of an informed attribute up to this point, since I've been doing so well. Today I handed in my incomplete assignment and told him I was trying to work on it last night, overslept because of it, and STILL didn't complete it because I had so much trouble. ._.
I've never heard of dyscalculia before reading your comment. I have some of those symptoms, too. I didn't know there was a name for that sort of thing, I thought it was just fail. What do you do in that situation? Just go forward?
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Date: 2011-09-29 01:27 am (UTC)Mathematics 103 prepares students to be quantitatively literate citizens in today's world. By learning to think critiically about quantitative issues, students will be able to make responsible decisions in their daily lives. Problems are analyzed and solved using numerical, graphical, statistical, and algebraic reasoning. Technology is used to help visualize data and facilitate calculations, as well as to present quantitative output and verbal arguments.
The reason I'm taking THAT class is because it's the one math class I can take that completely fills the math requirement. There are other classes I can take, but they mean having to take TWO math classes, and no. One is more than enough.
We were mainly doing things like interpreting data from graphs and creating graphs in Excel from data tables in the beginning, and I was fine with that, but this last homework assignment involved MATH. Like, equations and formulas and crap. And I totally lost all my confidence, because I am TERRIBLE at that stuff. I can't grasp it. I think Henry will see that something's off. I told him at the beginning that I suck at math, and I think it's been kind of an informed attribute up to this point, since I've been doing so well. Today I handed in my incomplete assignment and told him I was trying to work on it last night, overslept because of it, and STILL didn't complete it because I had so much trouble. ._.
I've never heard of dyscalculia before reading your comment. I have some of those symptoms, too. I didn't know there was a name for that sort of thing, I thought it was just fail. What do you do in that situation? Just go forward?