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Building my confidence in maths!

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Bri MT:
Are there any particular topics or concepts you particularly struggle with that we might be able to help you with?
(that sentence construction is weird but hopefully you get my point)


It's easy to feel demoralised when you can't see progress, but you know that that doesn't mean progress isn't happening or never will happen. It's hard, but hang in there

JR_StudyEd:

--- Quote from: Bri MT on August 05, 2019, 07:23:28 pm ---Are there any particular topics or concepts you particularly struggle with that we might be able to help you with?

--- End quote ---

I struggle with Circular Functions (sin, cos, tan graphs and solving trig equations). I also struggle with the applications of differentiation and integration. And I think Probability is not going to be any nicer.

JR_StudyEd:

Thoughts on this video? I understand the whole 'mastery over speed' thing, but unfortunately the time constraints of VCE and the amount of content that needs to be taught makes that strategy rather disadvantageous in terms of keeping up with the class. I just can't grasp absolutely everything that is taught in class at the speed at which it is being taught. So I fall behind. It's so close to the end though, so I've decided there's no point in catching up. I'm just going to be revising the earlier topics from Functions, Graphs and Algebra for the next little while.

DrDusk:
Not a lot of people can grasp content as fast as it's taught in class, especially for maths. That's why you need to support it with rigorous home study.

Also you should try your best to catch up, increase your study hours, start doing more past papers etc. It's so close to the end so why give up now?

JR_StudyEd:
8/8/19

It's so close to the end. But therein lies my problem. What's the point of me trying to understand stuff like integration when I haven't yet consolidated things like Algebra and Functions? There is literally no point in me trying to listen in class, because I'll have no idea (as I wouldn't have built up my confidence to that level yet). And even if I do ask, I wouldn't understand because maths is cumulative. So that's why I want to focus on content from the start of the year, because I'll at least have deep knowledge of parts of the course, rather than trying to cram in knowledge from all topics. If I do that, my overall knowledge and understanding won't be as deep.

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