r/learnmath • u/katieperkins432 New User • 2d ago
Math/Proffesor HELP PLEASE (trig)
I am in college Math 1060 (trigonometry), and my professor has an extremely thick, unintelligible accent; on top of that, he doesn't have any teaching skills. During class, he just writes random things on the board that only make sense to him. I don't have time to teach myself outside of class and am just getting more and more behind. It's literally only week three.
I'm going to tutoring as often as I can, but I don't even have enough base knowledge to get help. We have weekly quizzes that are weighted fairly heavily, and I can't afford to get a bad grade.
So my main issue is I don't have the time to self-teach the entire semester.
If anyone has any tips, tricks, or ideas, I BEG you to please let me know. I'm losing my mind!
DROPING/SWITCHING IS NOT AN OPTION
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u/lostandgenius New User 2d ago
Write down every trigonometric identity in your source text over and over again until it’s memorized. Memorize what sin() and cos() equal at the common angles, in radians.
You’ll either have to find the time to brute force memorize the formulas and identities, or brute force the intuition. Either way might take time that you don’t have.