Why do a lot of students find Mathematics a difficult subject to master?
A frequent grouse that emanates from students (and their parents) is their inability to pick up mathematical skills just as easily as one picks up Science concepts or Historical facts or English vocabulary.
When you are studying a subject other than mathematics you are more often than not relegating your brain to commit things to memory or to perform simple logical deductions.
However, when it comes to mathematics more often than not you are asking your brain to use basic operations to tackle new sets of numbers or theories.
While the modus operandi might not alter, the numbers to which you apply the method to, keep varying all the time – whole numbers, real numbers, fractions, decimals, etc.
Plainly committing math to memory fails because of this very fundamental difference between math and other subjects.
A simple math sum that involves adding two numbers can assume so many different forms
- 2 + 3,
- 2/3 + 3/5,
- 2.3 + 4.5,
- 100.25 + 1000.0025,
- -3.6 + 4.5
How should one learn math then? Click here to go to the 2nd part of this series.
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