What specifically do you not like about it. And I don’t just mean “it’s too hard”, what specifically is hard?

I feel like most people would like mathematics, but the education system failed them, teaching in a way that’s not enjoyable.

  • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
    4·
    27 days ago

    I’ll offer a different perspective. I’m actually really good at math, and I hated it in school because I didn’t want to do dozens of homework problems because I already knew how to do it and it was pointless work.

    And I didn’t, which led to me having to take my tests sitting next to the teacher because she wouldn’t believe I could make > 90% on the tests without doing any practice problems.

    • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
      5·
      27 days ago

      Classic elementary/high school scenario: “This kid is ahead of the curve… a little too far ahead if you ask me. I’d better accuse them of cheating, given that the rest of the class sucks ass at long division/algebra/calculus…”

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        It was a tiny rural school and I was a kid from a major metropolitan area who was in honors classes before relocating to a school that had none.

        In her defense, like 99% of students at the school not doing homework and acing the tests would have been cheating.

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          I was never made to “tutor” but my assigned groups for projects were conspicuously full of problem children I was expected to balance.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
      1·
      27 days ago

      thats why theres always an ongoing debate on grading homework. what matters more are the exam grades to show if a given person understands a concept, but it runs the riak of more people failing out without the weight of graded homework easing up scores.

      back in middleschool, i was basically told i would instantly fail a geometry class if i didnt start doing homework, despite aceing exams. The goal of homework is to teach students more about meeting deadlines, and that message often gets lost in education.