Cheers, thanks for writing. I was very anti-math high school student, almost got expelled for throwing a temper tantrum at my algebra 2 teacher cuz I thought it wasn’t fair they were making me sit through it. That was 10th grade and they didn’t make me take any other math courses. 7 or 8 years later I took the placement exam at a community college, placed into precalc I, retreated to khanacademy and retook the exam a few months later placing into calc I, took that and discrete and all of their sequels, ended up getting straight As and tutoring every single math course there. I feel like I owe a lot to khanacademy, a tailored user experience really adds a ton of value over throwing myself at textbooks (and I did eventually figure out how to throw myself at textbooks, but also failed at doing so many times).
The purpose of my comment is to register for anyone intimidated by comments they’ve seen that imply people in the movement were doing math at such n such level in grade school that we’re out here, we exist, and we’re doing stuff; we who had to put effort into precalc in our 20s.
Cheers, thanks for writing. I was very anti-math high school student, almost got expelled for throwing a temper tantrum at my algebra 2 teacher cuz I thought it wasn’t fair they were making me sit through it. That was 10th grade and they didn’t make me take any other math courses. 7 or 8 years later I took the placement exam at a community college, placed into precalc I, retreated to khanacademy and retook the exam a few months later placing into calc I, took that and discrete and all of their sequels, ended up getting straight As and tutoring every single math course there. I feel like I owe a lot to khanacademy, a tailored user experience really adds a ton of value over throwing myself at textbooks (and I did eventually figure out how to throw myself at textbooks, but also failed at doing so many times).
The purpose of my comment is to register for anyone intimidated by comments they’ve seen that imply people in the movement were doing math at such n such level in grade school that we’re out here, we exist, and we’re doing stuff; we who had to put effort into precalc in our 20s.
That is hard to believe, you seem so smart at the UoB discord and your podcast :), thanks for sharing