![]() I'm dabbling and "peaking ahead" just a bit (but not too much to turn myself off!) and I expect I'll get there by next year or so. Sometimes it's frustrating, but if I stare at it every day a bit, eventually it all sticks, even when it seemed hopeless just a couple days before that. I honestly don't even play video games as much as solve algebraic problems in the evening. ![]() Somewhere in all of that I'm also dabbling with Geometry and (least of all) a bit of Probability/Statistics (which is suck at, but I realize I would like a bit better understanding of).īy far the most interesting to me is Algebra. Precalculus (this can sometimes just be Algebra 2 + Trig) In the following order (and in math, order is super important because you build concepts slowly, and if you miss something it just looks like gibberish): I've got my own learning path that covers the topics I see as most interesting/beneficial. As long as I'm interested, I know I'll get there. I'm going pretty slow still, but that doesn't matter too much to me because I know that the killer isn't time, but losing interest. But with the pandemic, I guess I got emboldened to dive into math. But like you I think I didn't do much about it because of the daily requirement of taking care of business and feeding family and so on. ![]() It still bugged me after all these years that I got tossed in the "dummy" bin that I clearly didn't deserve to be in. So, wanting a new challenge, what did I turn my attention to? That's right. I kind of got to the point where I wasn't finding as much challenge in it. Ironically, during the pandemic I realized I had gotten bored with programming to some extent. So, I could do just about anything I wanted in the programming domain even with my so-so math skills. Often, people have already written libraries that handle specific calculations (physics, common algorithms, etc) and it usually was just a matter of knowing how to write the correct search terms in google to find them and implement them in my code. How was I able to do all of that with "basic" math skills? Well, it's actually quite easy in almost all programming tasks. I did all of that with my remedial grade 11 math skills (actually, much worse, as not touching much math in all those years really eroded any concepts beyond basic arithmetic and intuition). I was developing websites, managing frontend and backend, writing books, making games and creating teaching series, and even made a projectile physics engine. It was difficult, of course, but within a couple of years I was doing really well with it. Mostly from just a few courses on the internet. But still, didn't improve my math abilities.Īfter university I wasn't sure what to do and, like you, started a business and that kept me occupied for a while.Įventually, when I was about 34, I decided to teach myself programming. Despite that, I went to university and excelled at subjects that required abstract thinking, such as philosophy and logic. I never had higher than grade 11 remedial math. The education system likes to sort people early and are all too happy to keep them wherever they are. Once I was there, I kind of felt stuck because jumping back into the regular level was too big of a gap, and nobody seemed interested to help me close that gap. Unfortunately in grade school I came close to failing math once, and that put me in the remedial level. I'd like to share with you a bit of my background and give you some general advice from my experience that might help put things in perspective. I'm 42 and can relate to a lot of what you're saying.
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