Oh God, I remember the fear as if it was yesterday...

aliasojo

The day the Maths teacher introduced sin, cos and tan.

Daughter's maths homework is on this and she's asked me to check it. :rotfl:

I'm instantly back in my maths class, head down, hoping the teacher will leave me alone.

I will need to go search the internet for 'Trig For Dummies' to try to help me remember.

What from your kid's school work puts the fear of God into you? :rotfl:

skipsmum

DS is doing negative numbers....I don't get them at all. Either you have something, or you don't - you can't have minus something.

DS says my logic is flawed

WantToBeSE

Algebra...the work of the devil, i swear it!
I could never understand why ANYONE in their right mind would introduce LETTERS into maths!
How could x or y equal ANYTHING???

balletshoes

anything trig would do it - didn't understand it the first time round, no chance now.

If BBC Bitesize or one of the other Maths for schools websites don't explain it, basically I'm stuffed!

borkid

skipsmum wrote: »

DS is doing negative numbers....I don't get them at all. Either you have something, or you don't - you can't have minus something.

DS says my logic is flawed

It gets even worse if she does A level maths. You get imaginary numbers then.

barbiedoll

I can remember having the little red books at school with the sines, cosines and tangents in them.

I didn't understand it then and I don't understand it now! :eek:

jellie

barbiedoll wrote: »

sines, cosines and tangents

I remember these words from school but don't remember what they mean, what they are for, or what they do.

I hated maths quite a lot back then, and still do.

marisco_2

Anything artistic or musical and I am stuffed. Neither holds much interest for me. My youngest came home waving a letter excitedly a couple of weeks back. His homework task was to make 'a fantasy garden'. An old shoe box, some paint, glitter, play dough, lolly pops, tissue paper and he created what he considered to be a masterpiece and I thought was pretty impressive as it was done solely by a seven year old. Till it was placed next to an entry by a child whose daddy happens to be a landscape gardener, which resembled what he would put forward as an example of his work, rather than something his child had lovingly put together. There is a fine balance between helping kids with their homework and taking away from the whole point of them doing it. I see this all the time as a teacher.

aliasojo

Well blow me down, daughter (who has dyscalculia and is maths phobic yet seems to be coping with this) has just shown me what to do and it's coming back.

She showed me soh-cah-toa which I have never heard of before, we certainly were not shown that. It helps tell you whether you need to use sin,cos or tan.

If i'd been shown like that years ago I might have got it sooner.

I want to complain about the teacher's diagrams though, the triangles he's drawn don't fit the measurements. he has a triangle with sides of different stated measurements but they look identical. It's enough to confuse me. :rotfl:

Btw, I agree with the algebra thing, how stupid is it making letters and numbers get along?! They never did in my head.

aliasojo

marisco wrote: »

Anything artistic or musical and I am stuffed.

I made a stand in music once. We had to sing this....

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandssongs/primary/genericcontent_tcm4555489.asp

...and I hated it. I just couldn't understand why, if they wanted us to enjoy music and really apply ourselves, they couldn't give us things that were more relevant to us, to sing. I refused to sing on principle. :rotfl:

I did make a rather fetching gym bag and cushion cover though.

pukkamum

aliasojo wrote: »

Well blow me down, daughter (who has dyscalculia and is maths phobic yet seems to be coping with this) has just shown me what to do and it's coming back.

She showed me soh-cah-toa which I have never heard of before, we certainly were not shown that. It helps tell you whether you need to use sin,cos or tan.

If i'd been shown like that years ago I might have got it sooner.

I want to complain about the teacher's diagrams though, the triangles he's drawn don't fit the measurements. he has a triangle with sides of different stated measurements but they look identical. It's enough to confuse me. :rotfl:

Btw, I agree with the algebra thing, how stupid is it making letters and numbers get along?! They never did in my head.

Oh alias I have been reading about discalcius and am convinced both ds 12 and I suffer from it.
Has your daughter been diagnosed, do they diagnose it, will the school do anything if I approach them with my fears.
The maths teacher himself told me the difference in his cat scores for maths and english are way more poles apart than they should be.
I have read this is an idicator.
Sorry to bombard you with questions x