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Aug. 20th, 2002 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonReading this, the linked article, and the additional commentary got me to thinking about how poor my math education really was. Granted, my high school only offered subjects as advanced as calculus and physics to the honors students, but I never took these in college either, so this might explain why.
I could have been good at math, I suppose - my dad is a mathematician so I had unquestionably the most knowledgeable tutor possible, if not the most capable (I think I frustrated him a great deal because I didn't "get" concepts right away - maybe he thought I should have inherited math comprehension?). As it is, I barely squeaked by in both high school and college-level chemistry, and I deliberately took college algebra in community college one summer, and transferred the credit, as it was something of a "purge course" at my university.
So, it could be argued that any hope for acquisition of outstanding mathetmatical ability is aiming somewhat high, given my history.
Even though I wasn't an engineering or computer science major (and hence, am unlikely to ever need advanced mathematics), sometimes I still wonder if I'm lacking something.
I could have been good at math, I suppose - my dad is a mathematician so I had unquestionably the most knowledgeable tutor possible, if not the most capable (I think I frustrated him a great deal because I didn't "get" concepts right away - maybe he thought I should have inherited math comprehension?). As it is, I barely squeaked by in both high school and college-level chemistry, and I deliberately took college algebra in community college one summer, and transferred the credit, as it was something of a "purge course" at my university.
So, it could be argued that any hope for acquisition of outstanding mathetmatical ability is aiming somewhat high, given my history.
Even though I wasn't an engineering or computer science major (and hence, am unlikely to ever need advanced mathematics), sometimes I still wonder if I'm lacking something.
