What were your best and worst subjects in high school?
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Best: Chemistry
Worst: National literature
I'm neutral to maths and physics and I didn't actually took really bad grades at national literature but I hated it. I didn't like any subject a lot tbh, but I kind of liked chemistry at my senior year. I wanted to take something related to this at college but oh well.
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Worst: National literature
I'm neutral to maths and physics and I didn't actually took really bad grades at national literature but I hated it. I didn't like any subject a lot tbh, but I kind of liked chemistry at my senior year. I wanted to take something related to this at college but oh well.
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Alba, anyone who loves music as much as you do will arrive at the beauty of math in good time--so I'm not surprised at your ultimate reaction to it. For myself, I have discovered that a lot of us come to math once we are out of the classroom and find it in its many contexts. For example, many quilters develop a tremendous sense of geometry. I amused myself greatly several years ago when I realized that I was instinctively solving some logic problems algebraically. And every year as I prepare my taxes, I thank my mother and my aunt, who drilled computation into me, because I do my own calculations (including a lot of column addition by hand). I have a little pocket calculator, but I always add and multiply by hand as well to make sure I have not wandered off course.
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Best: Bio
Worst: Math lol!
Worst: Math lol!
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I feel the same and you know what? Harmony is in fact the math in music.
I think I was just lazy and that's why I thought it was boring at the beginning.
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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.
I don't think it is an excuse. I've only known a few good math teachers in all the years I was a high school teacher. Too many of them didn't understand how to approach students who had a difficult time with the subject. And both the teachers I had in the classroom and most of the teachers I worked with seemed to operate under the theory that you either got math or you weren't trying so it was your own fault. That leaves the kids who aren't getting it frustrated because the vast majority are trying.
I added my history major in college during the spring semester of my junior year. I then had to take 24 hours of credits in three terms (summer, fall, spring--and that on top of finishing the rest of my credits). I love history and I'm good at it, but I struggled to accomplish that. It was like a crash course and there were times I felt completely over my head. But, in the end, it made me a much better teacher because I can relate to the kids that struggle. Before that, everything in my own majors had come easily to me.
And there is a point to this story: people who become teachers, in any subject area, are the people who the subject came easily to. It is often difficult for them to relate to and approach the students who it does not come easily for. And I think that math is an area where that is even more true than in other subject areas.
Right, right, right! I said a few posts earlier that in elementary school, a lot of teachers weren't math specialists, but in high school, as you point out, classrooms have almost the opposite problem. High school math teachers were often math majors, and they frequently are most comfortable with students who are good at math. I remember one teacher especially who loved responding to the two or three math whizzes in our class. Great for them, but not so wonderful for the other students. I always got good grades, but except for geometry, I never felt at home in math. So I understood the fears and struggles of some of the other students. I had one close friend who flunked math one semester. She was a capable, hardworking person who grew up to be a middle school teacher herself. So she wasn''t lazy or un-academic. But for whatever reason, she had a phobia about math at that time. I'm sure she overcame it later, but wouldn't it have been nice if a clever teacher had figured out a way to help her right then and there.
Former child star (and DWTS contestant) Danica McKellar, herself a math major, has published a series of books explaining math. She gears them to girls, but I'm sure they would be equally helpful to boys. The first one, about middle school math, is cleverly called Math Doesn't Suck. We need more people like her.
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Best & favorite subject in high school - French - always loved learning foreign languages & had great teachers
Most feared subjects (even though I did reasonably well in them) - Chemistry & Physics (for chemistry, I was afraid of messing up on group experiments - embarrassed @ the percentage of error).
Most feared subjects (even though I did reasonably well in them) - Chemistry & Physics (for chemistry, I was afraid of messing up on group experiments - embarrassed @ the percentage of error).
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It also depends on the teachers. My Maths teacher was great while my Biology teacher could never make me pay attention for more than 5 minutes
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my favourite were maths and chemistry, I could spend a whole afternoon trying to solve a difficult exercise while I couldn't do the same for a translation in latin or greek. I always tried to do the first 2 lines but soon get bored and so I had to copy the text the day after... sorry Prof
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It also depends on the teachers. My Maths teacher was great while my Biology teacher could never make me pay attention for more than 5 minutes
it's soooo true! During my first year of university I had a math's teacher who was only speaking for his personal pleasure, not caring if we were able to understand. It was my hardest year. Luckily the following year we changed teacher and he was so good! He never took something for granted and always explained a subject with something we could find in reality.
I don't think there're difficult subjects in school, it always depend on how good is your teacher, because we all are able to read a book but if you don't light up your students' interest they will study negligently.
Best: chemistry, math, geometry, mechanics, P.E., gas and oil technology.
Worst: russian, biology, russian literature, history, english, sociology, politology and all that boring to death verbal stuff I see I'm not the only one..)
Worst: russian, biology, russian literature, history, english, sociology, politology and all that boring to death verbal stuff
I see I'm not the only one..)
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English my best. I love how descriptive it is.
Typing my worst. I didn't like keeping my fingernails short.
Typing my worst. I didn't like keeping my fingernails short.
