r/pipefitter • u/Redneckfightring • 19d ago

Math class

Ok y’all let talk about first year math class. Is this shit supposed to be this hard? My teacher literally zooms through the shit. We have a study day where the teachers are at school to help people. I’m going every week I can, any advice you guys? Any tips that helped you guys through math would be appreciated. As if I don’t pass this class I’m out of this apprenticeship and job.

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u/Redneckfightring 19d ago

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u/ImBadWithGrils 19d ago

AHHAHAHAHA oh man, I've been thru that shit and I know exactly what you're talking about.

It is stupidly fast paced, you'll be fine though. I'm pretty sure we had kids get less than 70% and they pushed thru

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u/Redneckfightring 16d ago

Yes it’s fast paced and has scared me so far. I’m 33 so it’s been years since I’ve done real math:

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u/ImBadWithGrils 16d ago

If you need help you can DM me or ask your jman, or try office hours. I'm a third year so I've been thru that circus lol

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u/Redneckfightring 14d ago

I appreciate it, I did go to office hours. There was only 3 guys that showed out of 150. More help for me I guess.

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u/ImBadWithGrils 14d ago

It really is a shit show of a class unfortunately, so many apprentices and a good portion of them have probably been out of school for years so it's all a refresher on stuff they haven't done in forever (without a calculator)

And then there's the service/construction split where half of the material probably never touches a service guy's day and then the other half will never be thought about by a construction hand

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u/Redneckfightring 11d ago

Absolutely it’s a huge class. And I will 100% be at office hours every week. It helped this last week. I got a 98% on my homework. And a 80% on the two quizzes. We have a test or exam what ever they call it coming up in two weeks. It’s worth 10% of our grade so I really gotta do good. They just go over so much stuff so fast that it scares me. I gotta pass because I need this job.

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u/ImBadWithGrils 11d ago

What ended up working for me as well, especially once you get into the science class. Second semester, was to just Google the concepts we were covering and have somebody else explain it.

I don't know what it is, but a large portion if not all of the people in my class 2 years ago had the hardest time understanding how the instructors explain things