Mathematical concepts

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How many of you have a hard time grasping mathematical concepts? It took me until my sophomore year in high school to finally completely grasp the concept of algebra. Now, in college, I have to learn subnetting. Any of you in networking programs that can relate to this? This is really starting to piss me off and no matter how many times someone explains it to me, it just doesn't quite click. UGH!!

Same here. I have to practise hard to understand stuff that people who are usually considered less intellectual than me can grasp. But then again, I'm from an Asian country.

I sometimes have issues learning math. Either someone has to explain it to me in a way that I understand, or I have to teach myself.

I've always been mostly pretty good with math. Most of my problems come with memorizing things (I hated multiplication tables) or just not seeing the point of learning something (factoring, trig, and calculus). I get the why of those things now, though.

I'm kind of curious, what kind of things are hard for people who generally hate math? Is it the amount of abstraction? Not getting a clear explaination? Not seeing the point of it? Intimidating looking symbols? Something else?

Mathematics is difficult. It took the world's greatest minds thousands of years to develop. Do not be hard on yourself if it takes you a while to grasp something.

I'm doing advanced maths at uni, at the moment.

I seem to be taking it too philosophically.

I love the concepts, but .. I seem to be 'stuck' on trying to understand them, and just liking them. Which means .. I'm not really interested in practicing the problems.
Hoping this changes soon seeing as the exam will be, er, problems.

Mathematical concepts are fun unless you get them rammed down your throat.
Understanding a concept, let's say continuity or cardinality, is a very tall order.
I have spent decades trying to understand what kind of aggregate can be usefully
imagined as a set, and fantasizing about how many types of problems really boil
down to inverting a mapping.

One of my favourites is the notion of a well-posed problem. It has a solution, and only one solution and if you change details a little, the solution will not change by much. When people tell me they believe everything has a cause or an explanation, it seems to me they could benefit from understanding that a lot of problems we wonder about, simply aren't well-posed.

That does NOT say they are meaningless, but it DOES say that there is no unique and nicely behaved solution, in answer to an explanation or a cause.

Wow, I really get going, better quit while I'm ahead


J

I've always enjoyed mathematics, and it's one of the subjects I've had the least problems with.

I can't do math theory for the life of me. I got a C- (barely passing) in Elementary Analysis, and I had to go to office hours 3 days a week to get it!

As for non-theory, the only major roadblock I have is memorizing all the random calculus integrals.

So, the other day I was talking with someone and I told them I have aspergers... we got onto the topic of math. I told her I am horrible at it, and she looked at me like a confused puppy.. She couldn't beleive that someoen with aspergers could not get math. I mean stereotypically, I am supposed to be like rainman? I am almost a senior and I have not taken ANY math courses yet. I won't even take the placement tests. About 8 years ago I took pre-algebra, and got an A, but I tried to take a basic course (Alegebra) last semester, and got totally lost; I eventually dropped it. I have a high GPA, and am extremely intelligent in other capacities, but math makes me feel really clueless. I just don't get it... Math used to come so easy to me. In elem. school I was top of my class, but then I just lost my skills or something. I still have a keen talent for remembering long series' of numbers, and can do math equations, but only if I make my own route to figuring them out. For instance, if I do a simple math problem like 158 + 122, I have to work backwards. like I will think, okay 1 and 1 is 2, so it is 200... pause... 5 and 2 make 7, so it is 200 and 70 something.... pause.... well 8 and 2 is 10, so that would be zero, so I have to bump 70 to 80 so it is 280 (sounds like a lengthy way to go)... But, in class I would work like that and the prof said I was doing it wrong. wth??? So, I would try to follow, but then I get lost again. I am so scared to take another math class. I have wasted so much money on profs that I don't click with... I tried tutoring, but that is also hit or miss.

Basically, I cannot graduate college if I don't take math... It makes my ass twitch just thinking about it, any suggestions???