x – 2x + 1 = ? -- Umm...21?

[Surigamaru]

A nifty title, don't you think?

Anyway, I'm sure all of you have taken mathematics classes since Elementary grades to wherever you are now. So, are you good at math? Do you try hard to get good grades? Does it make you feel 'dumb' not understating it?

As for me, I don't like to study math at all, but I am good at it. When I was in high school, I used to get high grades, but now in university, not so much, considering I am getting lazier and I am majoring in something that does not depend of math much.

 

[Charizard★]

I tend to forget a lot of things from Algebra I so it does kinda make me feel dumb when a Freshman knows it and I don't D:

 

[RYOUKI]

Uh, I'm really horrible. I used to be a math prodigy when I was a kid, but idk what happened.

Now, I could barely understand it. It took me luck to score 36/80 (that's almost a pass) and that was a grade B paper, which means it was an easy paper. D:

My teacher says that it's because I make too much careless mistakes. Yeah, careless. pie-r-squared for the perimeter of a circle. I just guessed it anyhow.

Summary: I suck at it real bad.

 

[Ayselipera]

Math is my worst subject! :D

To this day I can still remember that fateful day in first grade when the class started learning adding and subtracting and I had no idea what was going on. I was never good at it then and I'm still not good at it now. I do try my best and listen to the teacher, but it just never comes together for me. As of recent I got my MCAS scores back (statewide exam) and I scored a 232 in math which is needs improvement. Thankfully I passed the MCAS, but not the school's level of where I should be so I now have to take a fourth year of math next year. D:

 

[Binary]

Math is my best subject actually. I pretty much like using my brain and doing solutions of math problems. Math is probably the subject I'm best at, and then Language and Social Ed. I understand and interpret things pretty easily, so yeah.
I scored a 96/100 in Maths when I gave the first exam of the session. But I despise Trigonometry. ;;

 

[Soari]

Summary: I suck at it real bad.

This.

Well, I am not very good at Math, just above average. =\ I understand everything and I know how everything works, but no matter what I do, I still get the sum wrong, which makes me pretty angry .__. and due to my carelessness, I always end up getting screwy grades but yeah, I've to boost them up since I've opted for Additional and General Math. =o

 

[institutions]

Si.
I am pretty good at math, I suppose.
It's my best subject.
Just finished Trigonometry with a 97% ;D

My school doesn't offer any higher math classes than that, though :)

I like applying math to figuring things out that are completely unrelated to it.
Normally it's just simple Algebra, but it makes me feel smart nonetheless.

 

[Spinor]

Doesn't a High school Freshman with a 99 in Precalculus, Senior math, sound nifty?

I've always been good at math, but I didn't decide to make it a real focus until after 6th grade, when I realized that there was so much more to math than 2+2 and 5². Now I am an excellent competitor in Math and Calculator competitions, I get excellent grades in Precalculus, and of course, that means I have no choice but to take Calculus I, II and Statistics all AP for the rest of my years. How did I get there?

When I had my epiphany later 6th grade, I naturally moved up my math skills that I built up, but never used in a Math Camp I had previous years. After my next junior high assessed my math skills, they bumped me up to Algebra 1 when I was just a wee 7th grader >__>

You might be able to work out what happened from there.

The sad part is, I'm not Asian, I'm Mexican XD

 

[Captain Fabio]

I study a module of mathematics at University for my programming course. Dealing with 3D mathematics.

It is pretty tough going.

 

[Eucliffe]

I'm in Honors Algebra II and Normal British Literature. Guess which one I'm better at?

/of course, we're just doing review stuff right now

Math is a strength of mine, and it always has been. Unless it's Geometry. I cannot stand Geometry.

 

[Vulpes bicaudata]

In high school, I got A's in all my math classes (for that matter, I got A's in all my classes throughout high school). I took Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus AB AP, and Calculus BC AP. For the two Calculus AP courses, I got a 5 on both of their AP tests.

I would like to point that the thread title:
A) can be simplified to -x + 1 = ?
B) is insoluble (it has two variables)
C) if interpreted as x - 2x + 1 = 0, as is more commonly seen, can be solved for x to get x = 1
D) if interpreted as x^2 - 2x + 1 = 0, as is even more commonly seen, it again yields x = 1.

 

[Surigamaru]

I would like to point that the thread title:
A) can be simplified to -x + 1 = ?
B) is insoluble (it has two variables)
C) if interpreted as x - 2x + 1 = 0, as is more commonly seen, can be solved for x to get x = 1
D) if interpreted as x^2 - 2x + 1 = 0, as is even more commonly seen, it again yields x = 1.

Yes, I wanted to put a zero rather than a ?. I don't know how to change the name.

 

[Timbjerr]

I'm going to college for Civil Engineering and Architecture. As such, I use math a lot, and I'm fairly good at it. When I took AP Calculus in high school, only two people in my grade got a 5 on the exam. The class valedictorian and "barely-in-the-top-ten-percent" me. XD

 

[Gabri]

I like Maths, actually. And I'm good at it without needing to practise much :D
I like to solve all those problems and equations. It's pretty much a matter of using logic.
Until the end of the 9th grade, the rating system was from 1 to 5, and I never got less than a 4. In the 10th, 11th and 12th grades, the rating system is different (from 1 to 20) and I got a 15 (I can't remember if it was 15 or 16, but whatever) in the 10th grade and a 17 in the 11th. I'm in the 12th and so far it is going pretty nice and easy :D
But hey, that's just me.

 

[sabapple]

In all of my years of school, I've always been able to understand anything thrown at me and do great at it but math. Oh, I've never understood math.

I think that I'm no good at math because I missed the first, oh, 4 weeks of Pre-Algebra and the teacher never explained to me what I have missed so now I'm in Algebra II Honors and completely lost.
I don't understand the concept of algebra and it makes me feel so stupid when I don't understand what I'm doing. I used to follow my notes for every problem and so when there's a problem that I don't have in my notes, I have no idea what to do.
I hate algebra with a passion.

... Though I like geometry much, much better. There's just something about it that is easier to understand, though when we start to mix some hard algebra into it, I kinda get lost, but not as lost as I am right now.

It doesn't help with my current teacher. She goes through everything extremely fast, has a spanish accent which makes it almost impossible to understand what she is saying, and only grades tests.
This is an absolute killer for me because I'm not the best at exams. I can't follow my notes on those! D; And I asked her for help because I don't understand what we're doing and she told me no, that I can't waste her class time. The other day when she asked to see our homework, I told her that I didn't think that I did it right, and she told me that it doesn't matter. ...
What the heck am I suppose to do now? I swear that I'm going to end up failing that class if something isn't done soon. I've never had a teacher not willing to help me so I'm really lost at what to do... @A@

.. Yeah... I'm more of a history person (I love history to DEATH, how can people possibly find it boring!?!?) and english and science person. Chemistry, history, and english!~ ... And foreign languages are my favorite~~~ Math just didn't click with me. =/

 

[PlatinumDude]

I'm good at math, but my grades there have started to slip. Last year, I got a C+ for it on my report card, and I wasn't happy. So I took math tutorials over the summer, hoping to do better in that subject, and it (sort of) worked because my current math grade is in the B range.

 

[Surmonter]

You can't solve x - 2x + 1 as you are not given the value of x.

I am decent. :3

 

[Amaruuk]

I was always really good at math (strange for an artist, I know), and when I was younger, quite enjoyed it (except this stock market unit thing in 7th grade). The thing is, my high school didn't have any maths beyond algebra 1, 2 and geometry, and there was only one math for me in college, which was just geometry again 'cause it's the class they give to people who got good scores on the ACT or PSAT or whichever it was, which I got in spite of having to guess at the questions that I never had a class for like trig.

That was three years ago. It almost feels like a waste of my potential that I haven't learned higher maths than I have, 'cause in middle school and all that I was one of the best. But I'm an art major at a school that focuses on relevance and minimizing gen-eds, so no more math is to be had, and in the long run it isn't a big deal.

 

[Sammi]

Yes, I wanted to put a zero rather than a ?. I don't know how to change the name.

I can edit the title of the thread if you want. :D

Long story short, not that great at math. It was a subject I did decent in when I was in school, but I was never really amazing at it. And now, if it's anything harder than basic algebra I'd probably just stare at it like so: O________O;;. Then, I would go sob in a corner because the numbers scare me.

 

[Esper]

I breezed through math in high school until I got to calculus where I hit a wall and failed the class. Since I had another year left before graduation I somehow thought I should try again to clean up that spot on my record and that based on the learn-from-your-mistakes school of thought I wouldn't have nearly as much trouble as I did the first time. But, no. I failed again.

Thankfully I wasn't planning to do anything with my life that needed any kind of higher math skills. I can do algebra pretty easily and that's good enough for 99% of all math-related things I'll probably ever need to do.