When I say "I'm bad at math" I really do mean it
Even in KINDERGARDEN I've flunked every math class with awful grades and here I am in high school with zero improvement. Its just math too! I love reading! Hell if I turned my stuff in on time I could be an honor student! Science is the most fascinating thing in the world for me! I'll take every art class under the sun! When I get to math... my love for learning stops.
When I'm in math it could be explained from hell and back and I could write it every word the teacher says down but the second a problem is handed to me it feels like I'm reading Russian. I read and reread my notes and I just get more confused.
It's starting to effect (affect?) my mental health. I got handed a math test and I almost had a breakdown.
What the is wrong with me!
Why do I fail every math class I take?
Responses (3)
math just isn't for everyone. I wouldn't worry about it really. Maybe get tutoring? Even still, there are plenty of things you can do in life that don't require math. (I hate math too so i'm majoring in political science) try getting tutoring if it's affect your gpa but I wouldn't stress about it too much. you cant be great at everything :)
It's not your fault. American public schools are terrible.
Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8" is going to be 7/16". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.
Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.