Fullykenyan wrote:Iganamagana wrote:Kusadikika wrote:masukuma wrote:hardwood wrote:Interesting .....
you know you are in sh*t when the mathematical problem you are trying to address has more words and greek symbols than numbers
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I have a friend who seems to understand these things.
He also takes a lot of psychiatric prescription medications and drinks like a fish. He looks and talks like Tony Gachoka.
Not surprising.
Guys, kwani what did you study? i did not study mathematics, but i can explain that theorem with no problem at all. The problem would be to prove it mathematically. That one made me hate mathemtics at the university
I actually got good grades in Mathematics in school but I never understood most of the Mathematics after arithmetic and simple geometry.
Much later in life I came to understand where the gap was. I had procedural understanding of Mathematics which means I knew how to follow the steps to get an answer but I never actually understood the mathematical concepts. The teaching I received was very deficient in the "why" of maths and was just full of "how". So even though someone looking at my grades may have thought I was a fairly good student the truth is I was very deficient.
Lucky for me I did not pursue any Math related course because I would really have had a rough time. I have heard the same story from really good students who went on to do Engineering studies in high end Universities in US and in UK and were in the same class with some other students from places like Romania or Singapore and they realized how far behind they were. They had to work really hard to close some major knowledge gaps before they arrived at what their lecturers assumed were basic requirements for someone taking an Engineering degree and therefore they did not teach. They instead started from higher stuff.