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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Chevy454 I can understand that because I didn't enjoy it either, at school. That was mainly because I found it so difficult but also I think because it seemed to have no clear purpose other than merely an examinations subject. I was also put off it by a couple of the teachers.
I regret that now, because it ended my early dream of becoming an professional scientist or engineer - both, of course, highly mathematical. I did work in these areas, but at semi-skilled shop-floor level for the Degree and PhD holders.
Thankfully you are honest, admitting your personal dislike of the subject. A few on SW hide behind abusing the subject itself, sometimes in potty-mouthed language - evidently missing the irony that without mathematics we would not have the Internet, nor indeed electricity!
Or almost everything we all so easily take for granted every day, even if we personally use only simple arithmetic and perhaps some mensuration with its basic geometry, trigonometry, masses, areas and volumes.
Curiously, many people who discuss maths education on SW - and elsewhere I have seen - seem to divide it artificially into hermetic subjects: algebra, trig, calculus etc. I have never understood why, because mathematics is a coherent discipline whose many different topics inter-relate with many others, in many ways.
I believe schools now try to show mathematics as the everyday but fundamental foundation for science, engineering and a good many other fields of life. Including of course, medical science and engineering...
I regret that now, because it ended my early dream of becoming an professional scientist or engineer - both, of course, highly mathematical. I did work in these areas, but at semi-skilled shop-floor level for the Degree and PhD holders.
Thankfully you are honest, admitting your personal dislike of the subject. A few on SW hide behind abusing the subject itself, sometimes in potty-mouthed language - evidently missing the irony that without mathematics we would not have the Internet, nor indeed electricity!
Or almost everything we all so easily take for granted every day, even if we personally use only simple arithmetic and perhaps some mensuration with its basic geometry, trigonometry, masses, areas and volumes.
Curiously, many people who discuss maths education on SW - and elsewhere I have seen - seem to divide it artificially into hermetic subjects: algebra, trig, calculus etc. I have never understood why, because mathematics is a coherent discipline whose many different topics inter-relate with many others, in many ways.
I believe schools now try to show mathematics as the everyday but fundamental foundation for science, engineering and a good many other fields of life. Including of course, medical science and engineering...