Things That Are Hard in Math

[rubah]

Please tell what branch of mathematics it's from, and if possible, give an example. I want to collect a bunch of things to maybe write some simple tutorial/pointers on them.

[CimminyCricket]

Geometry.

[rubah]

well, which are the specific parts of geometry you find most difficult? The proofs, the Angle Side Angle stuff, spherical geometry, two parallel lines split by a transversal?

[crono_logical]

Although I think geometry is easy, I think it's a good area to pick since it's interesting what you can do with circles and shapes and their properties, and they don't seem to teach it in schools as much as they used to anymore :p

[CimminyCricket]

Proofs and the spherical stuff.

[blackmage_nuke]

Parrametric Parabolas finding the cartesian equasion and locus for some instance. Some with Hyperbolas and Ellipses.

[o_O]

Tell us all about the relationship between circles, triangles, phasers, analog functions and trigonometry. :D

[GrimmReaper]

i was just helping a co-worker with some geometry a while ago, it was basic though.
seemed to have the most trouble with radicals and general formulas to find circumference, radii' diameters, right triangles, etc etc...

ive also found that there are more people re-learning the material they forgot in school than there are actually in grade school learning it.
fancy that. =/

[Yar]

I loved math until I got to precalculus. I don't know what happen, but I began to despise mathematics.

I began to confide in foreign language.

[Shoeberto]

I loved math until I got to precalculus. I don't know what happen, but I began to despise mathematics.
So many people are like this; I'm the opposite. I despised math until I got to calculus, where I really started to enjoy it. Maybe because it's actually applicable to real things. I dunno.

[rubah]

I liked both :exdee:

[Arc_Master_14]

umm conic sections like parabolas hyperbolas ellipses and circles. I believe its algebra and geometry.

[Aerith's Knight]

Fourier Tranformations.. God, I despise those.

[Kirobaito]

The Dirac Delta Function. I don't really remember what that is, but I remember I didn't understand it at all. I learned (or didn't) it in ODEs.

[blackmage_nuke]

I despised math until I got to calculus, where I really started to enjoy it. Maybe because it's actually applicable to real things. I dunno. Wait what? I like both kinds of math but i cant see calculus being any more applicable than non-calculus math.

[rubah]

because calculus lets you calculate crazy volumes without a measuring cup, determine how fast you're moving at this exact instant, and what your magnetic field strength is.

[blackmage_nuke]

your magnetic field strength is.

Next thing you'll be saying we can use it to calculate our power level without scouters

[The Unknown Guru]

The thing in trig where you get things like

2sin + cos = cot
tan ............sin

and have to simplify them. I always forget what it's called.

[Zeldy]

Circle Theorems always got me, it's not that they're hard - it's just a matter of remembering the rules and applying it to the question, which is alot harder than it sounds :(

I never got all the angles crap, with the tangent and such, went straighttt over my head. Oh man and Surds too, I hated them soo much xD

I hated Maths, and as I've not applied for it at college, I never have to do it again!

[fire_of_avalon]

Everything.

[CimminyCricket]

Seriously, so I took a CLEP test today to see if I could get out of taking a college math class. It was standard level Algebra and I failed the hell out of it. The f(x) nonsense and some other bull crap destroyed me.

[Caraliz]

I hate graphs. I hate everything about them. I hate graphing ANYTHING in math. Give me equations and shizz. I can't stand drawing dots on a grid and connecting them; I find it useless and much prefer the bar graph, but I don't think there's enough room in mathematics for that :(

Also, another thing that I'm totally bad at is basic stuff that you learn in grade school. I never paid attention so when I got to 10th grade I was in Algebra 2 and had to multiply fractions. I mean, what the fuck, I can do everything but basic math. Don't even get me started on long division, but I'm getting better. I just hate the remainders. The thing is, I used to remember doing this stuff and it comes back to me but I hate how I forgot it. I guess that applies to grammar as well. I used to read books under my desk while the teacher was teaching and still got Straight A's. The only bad thing about this was that I forgot everything almost immediately.

This one I have no clue about: Permutations and Combinations. I have NO IDEA how that <img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /><img src="http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif" alt="skull" /> works at all. It's all like 3! and stuff. ;_; There was some method of doing it but I was absent so I tried to learn on my own and I failed.

[Vivisteiner]

Proofs. No one ever fucking teaches me how to proove anything.


Oh, and I also hate that crap to do with Variance, standard deviation, root mean squared deviation etc. I dont think its hard - I just fall asleep.

[Hambone]

I haven't even started Algebra 1 yet, but I always find myself getting many problems wrong because I'm so careless, I always forget simple steps in math.

[champagne supernova]

This might be a bit off-topic, but I wonder how much mathematical teaching differs from country to country.

I don't actually remember having many issues with maths. One of my majors is Economics, and the other is Finance, so there is a lot of mathematics involved. I dislike having to do Maths where there are more constants represented by letters than numbers!