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Just out of curiosity!
For me, my worst subject was definitely math
and my best subjects were French and Spanish.
For me, my worst subject was definitely math
and my best subjects were French and Spanish.
What were your best and worst subjects in high school?
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So geometry and trig were separate subjects at your school? Interesting. I guess every country and every school does it differently.
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I have been out of high school for more than 10 years so I find all the subject dreadful now. But I remember I was very good at chemistry and biology and literature (English).
My worsts are math and psychics.
Math was dreadful for me. I'm just happy that I passed it.
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Best: English and History, especially European History.
Worst: all types of Math. And Phys Ed, where I was the perennial class klutz (shudders w/ embarrassment
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Worst: all types of Math. And Phys Ed, where I was the perennial class klutz (shudders w/ embarrassment
).Here, every year in high school I think they give a different kind of math. At least they did when I was there.
As for gym, I was dreadful in it, too. But somehow they made it enjoyable anyway. We played mostly team sports, like volleyball and softball. I was a klutz and not very brave, but the gym teachers didn't make us feel bad. So I got a lot of the benefits of gym even though I don't think I ever scored a basket in basketball, for instance, or made a decent hit in softball.
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Best Subject: Music / Orchestra .....Cello was my passion
Worst: Chemistry and Biology.
I was good at math but to this day I hate doing anything math related. Sorry Mathman
Worst: Chemistry and Biology.
I was good at math but to this day I hate doing anything math related. Sorry Mathman
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Best: Math* and Bio
Worst: Physics and English**
*Sometimes, you just need the right teacher to make Calculus bearable and fascinating. (x^2 + y^2 - 1)^3 - x^2*y^3 = 0
**it's not that I hate my English class. In fact, I found it the most enjoyable out of all my classes. It's just more about me experiencing a lot of writing blocks...and that I guess, lowered my confidence in both writing and class.hwell:
Worst: Physics and English**
*Sometimes, you just need the right teacher to make Calculus bearable and fascinating. (x^2 + y^2 - 1)^3 - x^2*y^3 = 0
**it's not that I hate my English class. In fact, I found it the most enjoyable out of all my classes. It's just more about me experiencing a lot of writing blocks...and that I guess, lowered my confidence in both writing and class.
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Cheerleading / Math
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Best: English and history
Worst: Math
I had absolutely awful math teachers, though. That did not help. And because we moved twice when I was in third grade, I missed being taught to multiply. At the last school, they were doing division and the teacher did not bother to teach me multiplication first. I was absolutely lost. Instead of catching me up, the teacher yelled at me for not doing the worksheets and kept me in from recess every day. My mother's attempt to stop it and get her to teach me were to no avail. Over the summer, mom bought flash cards and a workbook intending to teach me herself, but my older brother got excited by the whole thing and he did it. But I basically was terrified of math in school from then on. Usually could only get any of it at home when my brother helped. By high school, he was in the Navy and I was on my own.
Worst: Math
I had absolutely awful math teachers, though. That did not help. And because we moved twice when I was in third grade, I missed being taught to multiply. At the last school, they were doing division and the teacher did not bother to teach me multiplication first. I was absolutely lost. Instead of catching me up, the teacher yelled at me for not doing the worksheets and kept me in from recess every day. My mother's attempt to stop it and get her to teach me were to no avail. Over the summer, mom bought flash cards and a workbook intending to teach me herself, but my older brother got excited by the whole thing and he did it. But I basically was terrified of math in school from then on. Usually could only get any of it at home when my brother helped. By high school, he was in the Navy and I was on my own.
Best: English and history
Worst: math, physics, chemistry
Except for my very weird math exception: during the last two years of school we had two semesters of stochastics - I still have no idea why, but I totally understood that. Me of all people, the official course dummy who was too stupid for curve sketching. What made it even more weird was that everybody else in my class was struggling with this, and I was suddenly the one tutoring people in math
I'll never get over that
Worst: math, physics, chemistry
Except for my very weird math exception: during the last two years of school we had two semesters of stochastics - I still have no idea why, but I totally understood that. Me of all people, the official course dummy who was too stupid for curve sketching. What made it even more weird was that everybody else in my class was struggling with this, and I was suddenly the one tutoring people in math
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Seems like none of us were very good at math
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Best: Physics, Calculus, and Latin
Worst: Chemistry and Geometry
Worst: Chemistry and Geometry
Actually I don't think we are truly bad at math, it's just the teaching are boring. Sorry I know this is just an excuse, lol.
You are absolutely right! I got much more interested in and comfortable with math when I started working on textbooks (reading and history at first). That's when I met my math writer friends who were good at math and who enjoyed it. They made it exciting and accessible to me, and eventually I got to work on elementary school math myself. Giving kids the understanding that getting it wrong the first time didn't mean they were bad at math was one of the crucial approaches we took. One difficulty in elementary school is that a lot of teachers, unless they're math curriculum specialists, are themselves uncomfortable with math, and they don't know how to present it to kids who are afraid of it or who don't get the hang of it right away. Also, the first part of arithmetic, the computational skills, has a lot of memorization, and kids are notoriously impatient.
Worst: Math and Natural Science subjects (My parents are both engineers and this puzzles them a lot :sarcasm
Best: English, History, Social Scieces
I am now an Anthropologist so guess I didn't need those on my worst subject list so much and since I teach in a university MS Excel really comes in very very handy.
Best: English, History, Social Scieces
I am now an Anthropologist so guess I didn't need those on my worst subject list so much and since I teach in a university MS Excel really comes in very very handy.
Worst: Math and Natural Science subjects (My parents are both engineers and this puzzles them a lot :sarcasm
Best: English, History, Social Scieces
I am now an Anthropologist so guess I didn't need those on my worst subject list so much and since I teach in a university MS Excel really comes in very very handy.
You're an anthropologist? That is so cool!
(And as for Excel....I'm more comfortable doing math than doing Excel. I must have such a tangled brain.
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