Would you get help from the teacher after school, get a tutor, ask your parents for help? Something else entirely?
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I struggled big time with physics. I don't know why but I couldn't grasp the concepts for the life of me. I asked the teacher for help and I had a friend tutor me and help me study for the exam. I still only came out with a C in the course...but that was my lowest mark ever!!! I had to take physics in university and worked my ass off and got an A! Woot!
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During grade school and first year of college, my dad was usually the first person I turned to for help. Later in college, I'd go to my professor after class or during office hours to get extra help.
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In high school I went to tutoring after school for the tough stuff (calculus, biochem). Don't think my parents could have helped!
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I would ask in this order...my friends, my mom or the teacher!
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On another note, during grade 9 math my dad was helping me do my homework. On one of my tests, at the end of the problem I wrote "this is how my dad taught me to do it." My teacher actually gave me a bonus point for writing that and I got over 100% on the test!
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I had a math tutor a couple of times. I haaaaated math so much and I wasn't very good at it so that's not a good combination to have.
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I've never been a natural at math, but even still I always did great in school and never had to struggle to get good grades. Once I got to Calculus in HS I felt in over my head. I had a nice teacher and I asked her for help after school whenever we had a lesson I didn't really get. She helped me a lot so I didn't fall behind in the concepts.
ETA: Oh I almost forgot I had a private math tutor for the SATs too!
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I had a tutor for math in Grade 11, and then in Grade 12 calculus my Data Management teacher was my tutor. It was soooo helpful!
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@adnama: What's covered in Data Management? Definitely curious!
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@mrbee: It's like statistics! I live in Canada, and to get in to many of the Universities for Business, you need two math credits. So I took calculus and data management. DM is very similar to stats! I barely remember any of it now, but I was good at it, and that teacher tutored me for calc! haha
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I got help from teachers or friends.
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I had the world's worst physics teacher. I spent so much of that year frustrated because I didn't want to loose my 4.0. My stepdad helped me a lot with my homework.
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I just sucked. Especially Algebra. Geometry made more sense to me.
Math was not my area, and even though I magically pulled out a low B, I still had no idea what I was doing. I have no idea how I didn't fail. I never "got it". It never clicked.
I would figure out the answers using totally weird methods in my head, but if I was ever asked to show my work, I was screwed because my work was nothing like the work they were looking for.
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science...did nothing, avoid it. I finally 'like' science, decades later.
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If I was really really awful in it my parents would get me a tutor.
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In HS I hated Algebra 2, physics and chemistry! I would get help from the teacher and also had friends help me. In college I did way better in business math than college algebra!
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