<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Apr 15, 2020, at 18:20, Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" class="">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">As it turns out, after flunking Trig & Logs 3 times in college, I finally picked them up in 2010 from a Wikipedia article of all things!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">That last line is a major portion of my often flogged point about how few math teachers actuually know what they are talking about.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I actually flunked Calculus the second time I took it. I took it the second time because the first time I’d taken a semester and then I’d switched over to a quarter system school. *eyeroll*</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, my dad, who could do calc in his sleep (physicist), recommended I skip Trig as it was a waste of time. I believed him. Now, for him that was probably true, but for me, it was not true. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Naturally, they integrated trig in from the beginning and it just messed with my brain, </span>and I flunked that second time through. Since I was at Cal Poly and there were like zero majors for people without calc, I packed it in at that point and went back to working as a scientific programmer. :P</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I went through and slogged through learning the trig later, then went to pick up the calculus, only to realize that I *did* understand it. It’s just that math was taught faster than I integrated it. So if it’s taught in 9 months, it took me 12-14 to really think with it. Unfortunately, this doesn’t translate well into school terms. I just kept feeling like I was more and more behind.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>