I hate algebra 2 with a burning passion

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The title pretty much explains it all. I absolutely hate how I'm forced to take algebra 2 as a high school graduation requirement and the thing that really threw me over the edge here is the fact that my teacher decided to give my class a ridiculously hard project as our final instead of a regular exam (which would've been much easier for me to cheat through than the project). Not only do we have to start the poster board project with an opening joke (literally the only easy part about the project), we have to write and solve 5 algebra problems and we have to solve each and every single problem WITHOUT any help from our notes or anything like that. >:(

I've had enough of this complicated and confusing class. I just hope I'll pass this class with a D- or higher (I'd be lucky to even get that) just so I can get my 5 credits for this stupid course at the end of the semester and so I hopefully won't have to do any mathematics beyond arithmetic (which I already struggle with and am slow at) ever again after this month.

I had to take Algebra I again because the first time just did not 'take'.

The second time, everything 'clicked', and I breezed through the course.

I blame the first teacher, who would rather lecture me for 10 minutes on why I should be able to figure things out for myself (like the other students) instead of spending 30 seconds explaining something I did not understand.

The second teacher was the head of the maths department.

For your amusement, here is one of my favorite algebra cartoons:

You can't use your notes for a project? That's idiotic. What the hell are notes for then if you can't go over them to help you with a big assignment?

Some math teachers just can't teach math despite their own understanding of it. I had to re-take algebra, but once I had a different teacher I was fine...I needed more instruction in theory rather than the mechanics of it before it made sense to me.

absolutely - those who can teach Math, (and most STEM-related subjects) don't tend to to do well in the academic arena because they don't tend to handle the politics that surround academia very well, or simply don't wish to engage in it.

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Good luck. I had a tutor and studied my ass off in that class in high school, and I still failed it. I didn’t know at the time that my left hippocampus hadn’t developed and thus caused an impairment in my ability to retain information without a “trigger” like multiple choice. I was angry that I had spent all my years of high school studying twice as hard as everyone else in math and still failing without knowing why. I figured I wasn’t studying “correctly.” But no, I just had a damned brain issue.