I love Math! [For all math lovers]

[treva]

I like doing maths, but I hate the subject, if that makes sense. When I can do it I enjoy it, when I can't I hate it. Just had my AS Maths Module 1 exam on Friday and it was tough. I was getting **** results up until Christmas, but I'm hoping my late revision has brought on a fluke. Definitely going to work harder over the next term in order to get a good result overall.

 

[Leicester Fox]

I had that and think pretty much the same as you, no-one told me I would have to try this year.

 

[Highlander999]

I think the Arts are harder. At least Maths is set out in a certain way so that you can always obtain one answer. Things like English require you to try and understand what an author (for example) is trying to say. I might not get your weird Maths but you will never understand what Virginia Woolf is saying in "To the Lighthouse" as you will always look at things in black and white.

 

[treva]

Just because some people like maths does not make them look at everything else as facts and figures. I'm sure there are many artists who enjoy doing maths. In my case though, I hate Art

 

[Dr. Pepper]

But technically, there's no wrong answer in English. It's your own interpretation of it.

 

[Highlander999]

Exactly, Mani. Most mathematicians look at in black and white. Out of an A-Level English class of 20, only 2 did Maths. 5 attempted it, but dropped it because they could not get it

 

[Dr. Pepper]

Well I like both to be honest. I like interpreting text in English but I also like numbers and stuff to do with maths.

 

[treva]

I take English and Maths. Gunna drop it after AS but that's down to enjoying my others more than Maths. Doesn't mean I can't do it though.

 

[Highlander999]

It gets bloody hard at A2, drove me insane trying to get at all the hidden meanings

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I loved English Lit. Didn't stop me from being good in Maths. In Lit I loved the fact that each story or each poem could mean different things to different people at different times, and to be honest, Maths isn't so different. There are many ways to tackle the same problem and obtain the right result, and I know I do sums in a different way than several of my friends to them. The beauty of maths is that you can always reach the same conclusion. The beauty of Literature was that each piece meant something different to the author, to the reader, and would always make us learn more about ourselves. I don't see any reason why someone can't enjoy and be good at both.

 

[prarara]

Being an Engineering Student, I have to appreciate mathematics. It's definitely really cool as a tool to figuring out things. It's like a puzzle, and for those of us who get that rush from solving things, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. My favourite subject was using Differential Equations to solve so many things modeling our world (bridges or say Heat transfer for instance.)


The only sad things is that so many people associate love of mathematics with faults elsewhere; you can appreciate arts, music, and humanities, and still be really good at mathematics and other sciences.

 

[shravi]

I don't hate math because I'm bad at it. I hate math becasue it's too one dimensional in that there is only 1 answer, and if it isn't that, it's wrong. I like subjects in which there is no right and wrong, where I can have my own opinion and theorize, rather than having to abide by others' theories. I think I'm really going to enjoy my Theory Of Knowledge class this year.

 

[mukund_nadkarni]

I like maths, but not very good at it. I believe I'm a right-brained person, I guess that explains it a bit. I love arts, and I like maths in the same way. When I was in school, maths was taught just like any other subject. We used to memorise all the formulae and theorems without ever using logic to derive the same. In fact it was at Uni, totally away from maths, that I started liking Maths, out of my own interest and curiosity. But lack of a good foundation in Maths has not allowed me to pursue my interest further. The only problem with Maths I reckon is that it is like a ladder, and you have to climb absolutely each step. You can't jump between steps! No shortcuts.

 

[Harrypotter_fan]

Math isn't 1 dimensional Shravi. You can always disprove existing theorems and make your own. And for those of you who think Math is memorizing a bunch of formulae and writing them replacing 'x' and 'y', that just isn't math. Math is the art of problem solving. Addition and subtraction isn't math, even machines can do it using XOR and AND.

 

[mukund_nadkarni]

Can Math actually be disliked?!!