"I bet I'd be better at studying now with my adult brain as I was back then"
lol no
I wrote a computer game (including the engine), and matrix / vector math plays a key role in movement and rendering. Definitely needed some refreshers, but the good thing is it is not abstract anymore like it was in school, all math things are directly relevant to in-game objects and mechanics.
Honestly, if you audit the class without the pressure of the grade, it probably WOULD be fun. The stress usually comes from needing a good GPA etc
I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I'm sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks "wow, numbers in a grid!"
I went back to school to study advanced math a couple years ago and it was a blast. Math as an adult is great.
Ngl, I've been getting that a bit recently despite those classes being super stressful. There are a few classes, not just math, that I feel like I could gain a lot more out of by retaking them now with a couple years in the field behind me. Not that I did poorly in those classes, I did very well, but a lot of that stuff was just too abstract to me at the time to stick beyond the next exam.
I sometimes wish I could retake my school math classes. I was never good at math but I feel like now that I have seen some practical applications for stuff that we were force fed back them, I could learn it much better.
What practical applications?
I was just thinking the other day I should check out graph theory
I hear königsberg is lovely this time of year.
Took me a moment to realize he didn't grab a pink frog outta nowhere to yell at...
Oh good, you see them too
It was actually fun to do khan academy high school math on my own terms
I experienced this while assisting someone with their homework. It's how I ended up in another country, earning a post-graduate degree, at forty. And brain was right, it WAS fun!
When you get older you learn math with purpose can be really fun.
Ouch!
"Fun" is really not the right word. Even if you will like doing that course, "fun" is really not the right word.
It can be. Solving some equations feels a lot like manipulating a Rubik's cube, and people can find those fun, right?
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