AAAAArghHHHHHH!

[MrsBrady]

:rant:

Algebra! :thumbsdown:

:banghead::nuke::banghead:
:argh:


Ok. I feel better now.

[ccharles000]

1. I hate math

:hug:

[MrsBrady]

2. I'm not stupid

but it sure makes me feel that way.

[elleng]

3. It takes excellent teachers,

and we have far too few of them.

[MrsBrady]

4. yea...

well, now they don't teach you at all...

they give you an hour a week with a TA and then the rest you get to figure out on your own with book and computer examples.
all answers are entered on-line.

it's supposed to be the "new thing", but it sux. I think it's really just a money saving device, because they don't have to pay to have professors teach for over 1000 students enrolled in
"beginning algebra". This is the math you have to take before they even let you take a math course for your degree.

Total BS, but it is what it is. There is access to tutors and help, but it's not the same.

I understand enough, but it takes me FOREVER to get through my homework. and I mean HOURS.

[sammythecat]

5. Like elleng said, a good teacher can make all the difference.

I'm no math whiz at all. I was poor at it in high school and it wasn't until I got to college that I "got it". I had an excellent teacher for a course that sounds exactly like the one you're taking now.

We didn't have computers and the internet then, so I'd go to the library and look through textbooks looking for alternative explanations of whatever was giving me problems. That helped me a lot. I would think the internet would be a fantastic resource for this. It sure seems to be so for anything else I want to know.

Just be dogged. Get through this and, unless you're in the sciences, you'll likely not have to take much, if any, math the rest of the way. Good luck. :-)