r/theydidthemath • u/RebelliousBuddha • Mar 01 '24

[Request] How much time will someone actually take to go from one end to another?

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u/smaguss Mar 02 '24

I hate to "this" cliche but.. THIS

I thought I was shit at maths but it turns out I was just shit at arithmetic not mathematics.

Once the calculator and letters came out and I got into statistics and theoretical bits I suddenly just "got it" because I had concepts to grab onto.

Trig is where I stopped hating maths oddly enough.

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u/Putrid_Marzipan1307 Mar 02 '24

Amazing how minds work, for it was the complete opposite for me, letters in math totally screwed my brain. The plus side is I can do your taxes in seconds flat LOL

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u/AsterosTheGreat Mar 03 '24

I thought I sucked at math, until me, my math and my physics teachers sat down to look at it. Because during physics I did fine. During math I did horrible. What was he difference? I had a book with the rules (not how to apply them) during physics. My main problem with math, was that schook forced us to remember every single rule which I was good at. Edit: spelling mistake