MATHEMATICS
Home of the Mathematics Department
This is one of the scary subjects. That has less to do with the subject than the conditions under which it is encountered (been there done that got the "math block") If Miss Madden had what we have here, we would have been ready for Algebra in sixth grade (but she was gone by then, Replaced by Miss Gavin--Saddam Hussein's mentress). Mathemeatics is all built around answering the questions. "how much?', "how many?" and "how big?" I know that you will start to question how intellignet you are when you start trying to do this, but if you can keep those three questions in mind, it will help. Most of the hard stuff is the calculations. That's not even that hard if you learn in small pieces at a time, they can just get long, detailed, boring and tiresome. You have an advantage here that you don't have in class; there's no "time pressure" so you can learn at your own speed, you don't have to show off to anyone so you can do it enough so that you can get it nailed and, unlike me, you won't have Osama Bin Laden's grandmother for a teacher, standing over you with a whip and calling you donw for all you're worth in a voice like fingernails on a blackboard amped up to 12 on the noise scale. Just by doing the work on this section, I'm starting to get into it. also, you are here because you want to be so that'll take a load off your mind.
Also, in building tis page I found out something. It's not a bad idea to reveiw the stuff you learned as a grades and high schooler. You find that it all fits together better once you've hit age 25. That's not imaginary, Your brain has chnaged since you were 9. you kind of know the ending and most likely you don't have what seems to be Madame De Farge standing over just waiting for you to make a mistake and then screaming "Guillotine! Guillotine!". In fact, it becomes rather pleasant