Does anybody here think algebra is cool except for me?
970680
MATH IS SO COOL... \n\n\n\n\n\nnot
821101
Unfortunately I have the same reaction when I tell people I chose to study maths as a degree-people look at me as if I'm crazy!  I think that it is possibly due to the fact that to do and understand maths, you have to understand the language in which it is written, and unfortunately, that language can look rather confusing!  \n\nAlso, I think that maths can be very intense-if you compare a maths book to a novel, there will be much more information per page in the maths book than the novel, and I think that sometimes people are put off by this, which is a real shame!\n\nAlso, sometimes maths can be counter intuitive, and I guess this also discourages people!  Like for example "a minus times a minus is a plus".\n\nIt's such a shame that people do seem to be put off of maths and numbers, because it is such a great subject!  I include a link below to a magazine called Plus, which is published on the web for free, and which has fun articles, aimed at mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike, on all sorts of maths related topics.
414537
I was in your shoes once. My brain just doesn't work math the way I was taught it. Are you using the same teacher/tutor or do your teacher and tutor use the same style of teaching? Perhaps trying a new tutor, or getting someone else to work with you will help. I have noticed that not everyone's mind works in the same way. I struggled with math/algebra for years only to later in life have someone else explain it to me and it clicked right away. If someone can present it to you in a way your brain understands, perhaps it will make sense and you will start to do better.\n\nGood luck.
818604
Never heard of it.  Have you tried Mathworld or Wikipedia?
963940
Surely,you can do it.It reduces your head-ache of doing big multiplications and any proess which reduces your work-load but gives the correct answer is vaid.To tell you frankly,in higher classes,that is the procedure we follow to solve a problem in a quicker way.
959198
It is better to have an algebra background before taking geometry.  It is not absolutely necessary, but certainly better.
866917
i do. i have geometry honors now and i hate it soooo much there are toooo many theorems to remember i wish i could go back and do algebra again.
300919
holy crap........i never even passed algebra 1 \nsorry
1074681
Haha, I had that for 3 years when I was in high school.  The presentation of the problems are too PC for me, but the actual math concepts they taught were good.  But most people in IMP math hated it, and tried to get bumped up into the more traditional geo/trig or algebra.
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I think it is not but it is used in Intermediate Algebra.
695544
You could be, but who knows? You might be brilliant! Doesn't one course build upon the other? (Except parts of Linear Algebra, which is somewhat different, however it does use integrals and infinite series and lots of stuff I seem to recall might require that you know differential equations and integration . ) It has been 17 years since I had this series of math in college, but that's what my vague remembrances tell me! I'm not sure how often basic math curricula change over time but probably not that much...
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No, chances are you will not use any advanced math in your life, ever.\n\nHowever, math does help teach logical thinking, which is something you can use every day of your life, regardless of what job you eventually get or what you do.  If you can do logic, you can solve almost any problem, work your way out of any difficulty, and understand the flow of the world.\n\nDon't think of it as useless math.  Think of it as doing brain push-ups.
607212
sorry, but i love it, though it comes naturally to me... but then again i'm someone whose taking calculus in highschool and loves it...
338103
I would be very surprised if you could do that. Algebra I, algebra II, geometry, and trigonometry classes are available separately because they are very different from each other. They also get harder as you go up to the next level.
365219
me I HATE ALGEBRA i have nightmares about Algeria jk
1001397
learning about how stars are formed and movment of objects in space is cool to me.  I couldn't go throught college for it though too much MATH
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Algebra, concepts of proof, logic, set theory (baby version), number theory, maybe some other stuff.