I like math, but I don't get it

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I like math, but I don't get it Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 10:34:51 24ab81 No.171

I'm in college and feel cheated out of my own education, /adv/. I've never had a solid foundation in mathematics and being told I'm stupid throughout grade school didn't help any. Does anyone know of some sites or books on this?

Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 15:18:42 7499c1 No.172

What area of math?

Anonymous 01/12/15 (Mon) 15:24:28 803a2a No.173

>>172
Pre-calc and above

Anonymous 01/22/15 (Thu) 05:40:35 dbe3dd No.186

>>173
Khan Academy might be helpful to you. If you are in pre calc you need to be able to understand what is presented in the algebra 2 section the trig section and geometry. If you have trouble with those because of a lack of foundation just drop down to the ones before it until you get to the level you are currently at and build from there. Hope that helps a bit.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 23:24:10 5c0682 No.204

>>186
dis. Also… Youtube

Anonymous 05/23/15 (Sat) 01:00:22 2d5235 No.376

>>171

There are several ways of learning on your own and as others have said, khan academy is a good place to start but if you still don't get it there is something else.

Programming, well functional programming to be exact as it has a stronger link to mathematics than other types. Being able to test out things you learn will help with your understanding of them and their use outside of a course.

There are several languages which can help and this is just a list from those I have used to learn (and still learning):

Haskell - functional pure programming language which focuses on programs being functions which return the same result if given the same data.

Lisp (Scheme) - Used a lot (or was?) in university for teaching computer science (algorithms, recursion, ect…).

Lambda Calculus - The base for all functional programming languages and proves that everything can be computed as a function.

Being able to see why it works will ease the learning process and you will learn how to apply all mathematics to the outside world.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 11:07:40 55c159 No.388

>>171

Also

>>/freedu/

Anonymous 06/04/15 (Thu) 00:10:15 70964c No.390

>>376

If you want to go the progeamming route, I would recommend Mathematica instead. It would be far more intuitive for a novice yet is still very powerful as a functional programming language.

It's also worth noting that Wolfram (the developer of Mathematica) is getting really into mathematics education and helping the general populace improve mathematically and providing tools to do so, especially with WolframAlpha, another great (and mostly free) resource that you should use.

The downside?

>muh proprietary, non-free software

Anonymous 06/09/15 (Tue) 01:28:15 000000 No.395

I'm reading 1001 math book and it's excellent richard elwes

Anonymous 06/30/15 (Tue) 02:34:44 d6da62 No.456

>>171

Coursera has some cool math courses too. I liked the Ohio State University's Calculus for example, it's always open. (It might be too basic for you though.)

By the way anyone who tells another person that he/she's stupid is probably not a very smart person. There are many ways to learn math, and if you think a bit differently than what's usual, that might be a very good thing.

>>376

This is pure truth.