Comments on: Math Camp? Who knew! Part 1

By: Stop me if you’ve heard this one. « Blah blah blog-o-licious

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. « Blah blah blog-o-licious — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:24:48 +0000

[...] There is no Math Camp part 2, that’s how bad my Math is. I passed the class and went on to great things, where I [...]

By: Vegas Princess

Vegas Princess — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:23:36 +0000

Ugh. Math. I hate math. I am so not a math person. And Geometry was my nemisis in high school. But I learned how to do the quick percentage trick too. Helps me with tipping and discounts. Ever wonder why the nickname for arithmetic is math? I have.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:51:47 +0000

I think we were separated at birth. I could not (and still cannot) figure out Geometry to save my life. I had it in high school and all my classmates seemed to just get it. It was the only class I ever came close to failing and I was mortified. Somehow I pulled through and never forgot the experience.

I was the same way with Accounting in college. Very basic accounting. I saved it for my last requirement to graduate because I hated it so much. When I came home with the textbook, I put it on the kitchen counter, leafed through a few pages and then promptly burst into tears. My husband said “Now close that and go sit on the couch and stare at a wall. Crying will solve nothing.” I wound up miraculously acing the course, but only because I had the best professor who ever lived.

Now, if you can figure out why I sucked at those courses, but excelled at Trigonometry and Calculus, could ya let me know? I’ve never been able to figure that out.

I’m glad you were saved!

By: jody

jody — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:28 +0000

My worst math experience was while enrolled at BSU. I had attended a community collage for 2 years in Fairfax VA and was on the deans list so felt pretty smart. It was very hands on, my studies were animal husbandry, we studied wildlife management then went out in the field and trapped animals, we studied casterating piglets then went out in the field and,,, well you get the picture.

Back to BSU, with such success at community collage I decided to study veterinary medicine. We had to take an aptitude test for trig. In front of the entire class the instructor told me I needed to go back to 8th grade math. That was an embarrassing day.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:30:21 +0000

If I’d had a math teacher that said, oh you might need this information in the future when trying to learn how to fix that equipment in the Navy, I just may have listened. I actually used geometry in one of my jobs, I was slow, man was I slow, but it finally came back to me. It’s all gone now though, thank God.

By: Royce

Royce — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:09:16 +0000

It must be genetic. My Only success in math was in highschool algebra with Miss Grace, if the kids could get her talking about ANYthing at all, things were fine. My geometry class consisted of a great typewritten notebook that carried the day. My college courses did not require a math at that time but biology nearly killed me. I too, rely heavily on calculator and Turbo Tax.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:49:52 +0000

Good for her for finding you an alternate way to pass math. I suck royally at it too.

By: Gale

Gale — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:04:31 +0000

We are SO much from the same pea pod. My math skills in college still give me chills. Took me 3 times to get out of high school math, I made the deans list because this class was off the radar. Finally passed with a B – sailed through the next math class with an A. I rely on Quicken and a calculator.