Damn, I suck at algebra
 

I went and took my assessment test for college today and scored like 110, 111, 115, and 60 in algebra! There was only 12 questions but I don't remember how to do about 10 of them so I guessed. It's been like 15 years since I've done algebra, so look out beginning algebra here I come.:lol:

I do alright, but i hate math, especially match with little practical applications (curse you, calculus!)

In college it is best to start at the lowest level, as long as it is credited. Unless you get credit hours for placing out. You can strengthen your base in the subject. If you go into intermediate you may struggle and have to study to keep up (less time for beer).

calculus has few practical applications? my god it's the single most applicable field in physics!

I think what he means is that it has little practical application for most people's everyday use.

I love physics, and yes, calculus is pretty essential to physics, but to the average person, its pretty useless.

oh yeah.. didn't think of that. i guess any math beyond basic arithmetic is hardly used by the average person.

I had to take Intermediate Algebra twice. I guess I should have listened to my advisor :lol:

Hours of my life that I will never get back. Next semester, I'm going in for my first round of College Algebra....:(

I bombed out of pre calculus my first year of college, so I went home in the summer and started with Algebra 1 and built up to Pre calculus again. best thing I ever did, because now I get A's and B's in math. :)

Learn algebra. If you take any more advanced math courses, everything boils down to algebra. Learn algebra, period.

I've always loved math class... always hated math homework. I like learning and doing the math once and then moving on, not doing it 40 times. I would guess this is a result of math being one of the few abilities that come easily for me.

I never minded math, was always in an accellerated class all throughout school until jr. year of highschool. Algebra2 shut me down. Im not really sure why, my teacher sucked, but I dropped it within the first quarter and never thought about it again.

Oh man, I really suck at math. I mean I struggled with it all the way. Formulas...forget it! The only formula I can do, is mixing my son's Infamil. But, the really ironic thing is that I love math. I can't do it...but, I am completely fascinated by it. One day I should just pick up a Junior High math book and try to learn it all again...from the beginning.

What someone said about taking the basics and working up is the best way. Calculus is much more applicable in everyday life then you might think, but most people never really learn to understand what calculus is meant to be. Calculus is the algebra of non-straight lines. However, I ended up topping out in Intermediate Partial Differential Equations where my brain was about to explode with the abstract concepts.

cant help but laugh at u all

HAHAHAHAA


(im in engg. college right now)

lol, this is hilarious.

I remember when we were doing some basic calc and geometry stuff back in high school and a friend asked the teacher why we bother doing all this stuff.
His response was along the lines of: "well, maybe one day you might want to build a bridge"
It was extremely funny at the time, mainly cause of his tone of voice and the way he said it.

Also, aside from practical applications, maths provides a very good way of clearly thinking about logic and how things purely work. very good for your thought processes and ways of thinking. Well i think?

anyway, i love math and am relativley good at it i guess? although i haven't done any hardcore stuff since first yeart of uni when we were doing all the fundamental engineering units.

I always liked math, but after 6 semesters of math (Finite, Precalculus, Calculus 1-3, Differential Equations) and Physics 1 (which I'm in now) and Physics 2 next semester, I can't wait until I'm done with it. :)

It's not that I mind the math as much as the amount of homework that's assigned and how much time it takes to do all of the homework.

*goes back in time and erases the arabs who invented algebra*

The highest grade I got in high school in general math was a C. I was offered a chance to go into tool design but needed more math--so I took off shift coarses--COULD NOT understand algegra....so I went right into trig...and aced it--just came natural--but not algebra---never could figure out how it would help me with programming---I was right...

I used to think that I hated math, I was no good at it. Then I discovered the secret, you have to really work at it to get good at math. I dont just do my homework anymore, I do many many other problems. I understand it all a lot better, and now I actually enjoy it.

I'm doing ok in Calculus right now, and I dont mind it. Kinematics kicks my ass all over the place as far as Physics goes, but having worked with electronics so much, I fair pretty dang well with electricity and magnetism. I have a little over a year left of physics and math courses, and even though I dont mind them, I look forward to never taking them again and focusing on the courses in my major.

I'm doing great in my math classes so far...my teachers would hate me for not doing my homework if my tests didn't go so well. Planning on going into engineering...that will be another story.