u/Christopretensism

Experiencing pre-Calculus in the classroom convinced me that I wasn't made for this. I ended up failing and withdrew from the class.

I thought I was a decent student but this was by far the worst class I have ever taken and there's no point in trying it again.

I think statistics is a more normal class that isn't going to fry my braincells but instead teach them.

Algebra cooked my brain, I burnt out and taking other classes in that semester I couldn't afford to burn out completely so I had to let pre-Calculus go and got a withdraw.

If you ever want to attempt this class my advice is to try learning most of it yourself out of college and based on how well you do you can decide if this is a practical class to take because I don't want people to think they need to take it and then fail.

There are a few of what they call "soft sciences" that use statistics more than calculus so if algebra is not your niche try finding something better.

If you really are on the art side of the spectrum most colleges offer a liberal arts math as well but I am more in the center where I think a lot about humanities but I also think about science so I am considering majoring in a soft science since I am science minded and humanities minded but not hard science minded to the point where I feel comfortable engineering a motherboard for a computer.

I wish I knew about this earlier and one of the rare instances where advertising works. I am a college student and I do not always trust that I can learn from nothing at a fast enough pass without falling behind so I plan to use this as a practice platform before I take the official/real college class.

I failed pre-Calculus in College and I am no longer considering any major that requires it. I plan on taking statistics and I have always been more on the side of arts and humanities in terms of the type of cognition I enjoy engaging with. I wrote my own small philosophy E-Book, I am working on my own constructed language, I am interested in social science and I enjoy making research essays. I thought my critical thinking could get me through college algebra but algebra is very counter intuitive and it left me confused. To this day I don't know how or why the quadratic formula works. I know it completes the square but I don't understand the logic of how it does it. Algebra was by far the worst class I have ever taken even though I enjoyed it at first. By the time I withdrew after failing it and falling behind I didn't know what was going on anymore. I do not recommend this class to anyone unless you already like this sort of stuff or you pre learned this curriculum in a low stakes environment like an unofficial online course that mimics a classroom curriculum because algebra is not learner friendly and you really have to love it to have a chance at conquering it and I don't love it enough—I find it tedious.

A few suggestions to make it better:

Just teach it better

More word problems

Use names for variables like in computer programming for example in function f(x) x = speed and y = distance so it's not just f(x) = 5x + 4 it's f(xspeed) = xSpeed +4 or whatever. The answer is whatever yDustance is.

Also why are we using the same symbol for minus - and negative numbers -? That tripped me off a lot having to wonder if I'm subtracting or if the number itself is debt (a negative number) and that matters in how an equation is solved.

Last but not least, I didn't succeed far enough into it to give any more advice, by the time we got to polynomials and synthetic division it was an alien language I had no idea how to decipher.

Programming was hard as well for me and I got weeded out by the time we got to loops, arrays and functions.

I chose the wrong major but I still want to learn math and I am still interested in two STEM majors like botany and meteorology.

I want to double major in a non stem and a stem major because I believe in the philosophy of balancing, I think both need each other and enrich each other since there is plenty of math to do in art and lots of art that can be done with math.

Capitalism exists because people do not have everything they need and because people don't cooperate to meet each other's needs.

Cooperation saves money. You don't need to pay a daycare when you have family members or friends to look after your children. You don't need a barber if you have someone who's a family or friend that knows how to cut hair. You don't need a restaurant if one of you specializes in culinary arts for the tribe.

Cooperation is how we abolish capitalism and the need for money to survive, however, when cooperation ends then we start demanding interest such as "what is in it for me by serving you" and the answer is always "money".

There is no cooperation without communion and communion is not a Marxist term, it's actually a religious term in Christianity specifically well known in Catholicism and there is no revision being done here. Communion means union in common and that's what we need to overcome capitalism.

The materialistic perspective that enables capitalism is scarcity. You don't buy things you can get for free for example I don't buy sunlight, I don't buy air most days although I do buy air filters when it's polluted. Some of you grow your own food and don't buy it. You only buy what you don't have so if we create a word of abundance capitalism breaks down.

Neither of the two paths to ending capitalism are anywhere near reality especially in the USA.

I say this as someone who felt like my education began in College and never thought I learned anything in highschool.

For me real education began in College but that becomes a problem when certain college classes are built off of the presumption that people learned something earlier in highschool yet that presumption is false—evident by the amount of students that are required to take remedial math classes and even English/literature support classes to a lesser extent.

I think Colleges should assume people learned nothing unless proven otherwise and treat every College freshman like it's their first time ever going to school.