Is university math less frustrating than high school math?

It would be wise to think high school isn’t an accurate representation of college. I hated history classes in high school. Loved them in College.

All math is frustrating if you don’t have a head for it—easy if you do. Me, I gave up after algebra!

Math is math no matter where you’re learning it.

If your particular major does not specify which math courses you need (some do, some don’t), take statistics instead. Have you taken statistics before? If not, you may not find it as easy as you’d expect. Many students have trouble understanding stats.

@livelaughlove21 Stats is always at the end of the school year and It pulls my mark from failing (F) to barely passing (D-). I’m not in school I Just want to learn how to read all the cool stuff on the blackboard in a science documentary.

psssh College is ten times harder (being real lol). I got all As in math in high school, a 102 in AP Calculus. Failed it my first time around here in university; got a D the second time around lol. Finite Math was super easy though.

please note I go to a high ranking engineering school, so it might just be that math and science are a lot more difficult here than a school that specializes in other academic areas lol

I don’t think calculus was necessary for my statistcal classes in business school in college. If memory serves business students needed to get through Algebra II (which was a weeder class for the business schooll, and a lot of students struggles in that Algebra class). I had taken Business Calculus in Jr. College and so when I transfered to my university they waved me having to take the Algebra II class. Anyway, that’s why I am reasonably sure the business students didn’t need to take trig or calc, but we did take stats and finance two terms each.

^our business students have to take Calc 1. I don’t know why but I know it’s a requirement

If I remember correctly (and there’s an incredibly good chance I’m wrong here) the maths you need to do stats on something with a continuous variable is basically calculus.

So the thing about math is that one skill usually builds off another, and you have to slug through a lot of bull if you want to understand anything later on. BUT, from your details, you may be in luck. Statistics is generally not one of those subjects where you need to know trig or calculus. It’s kind of in a category of its own, alongside probability.

Speaking very generally, I wouldn’t say college math is less frustrating than high school math. I have loved both, and I have had moments where I haven’t. It depends mostly on the professor in my experience.

Frustration has nothing to do with being in high school or college. Frustration usually stems from a lack of motivation and the inability to see the connection with real life problems. You could make a list of 20 reasons why math is beneficial for humanity, starting with weather forecasts and ending with rendering the Avatar characters and landscape. Try this website: http://weusemath.org

Once you become more motivated, math gets a lot easier.

University and high school math are different. High School Math is your ground work structure. If you are not performing well at your school level in Math then I would advise you to take some tutorial classes.

You can learn to use statistics without going too heavily into the mathematics behind it. My sister-in-law is a complete mathphobe. She needed to learn statistics as part of degree program in library science. She still talks about the horrors of the course, but she managed to pass and get her degree.

” Is university math less frustrating than high school math? ”

No.