How can I become good in math?

[Anonymous]

I love math, science, history, baking, cooking and English. I did a math exam and I fail every time.

[ArrowheadSW]

Sit down for hours and solve the problems in the math books. It takes a lot of practice and working out problems.

[In_Trance]

practice

[abc3643]

Well, believe it or not, you answered your own question.

One of the keys to teaching or learning mathematics is to have applications to use the material.

You like baking and cooking.

Well, converting recipes is one very good use of applied mathematics (and some science).

Suppose you are given a recipe from Europe so the recipe uses weights instead of volumes. You'd need to convert...

Also, when a recipe says "Serves 4" (or whatever), having to modify the recipe for a different number of people is important. So, you need to learn how to do that.

Here's a nice recipe in which they have both US units and metric units.

https://www.recipetineats.com/spaghetti-bolognese/

Converting between the two is important.

Oven temperatures too: Celsius versus Fahrenheit.

If you convert a few of your favorite recipes, you will get lots of practice using arithmetic and perhaps some algebra.

[RavVid]

I am quite good at it and never had to work at it a lot. That is just to say I might not give the best advice since I never had a problem getting it. Maths is just a set of rules to do with numbers and you need to know them and when to apply those rules. So the thing you have to do is to learn the rules and practice problems to apply those. It would help if you can say what level you can do and can't do as you need to start from the level you can't do and work up. It would also help to say what level you need to get to. Percentages are as sophisticated as you need in ordinary life but if you are at Uni/College you might need a lot more and i gather you are in a teaching environment. Make sure you understand BODMAS because if you don't you will always have wrong answers. e. g (3 -1) + 3 * 2 done left to right would be 2 +3 * 2 = 10 but BODMAS would give you 2 +3 *2 = 2+6 = 8.

[Bilboes]

Start working problems. Run out of the ones in your book? Math books are a dime a dozen at the used book store or on Amazon. Buy 'em and keep working problems. I know it isn't easy, but it will pay off.

[jennifer_bloom]

I raised my math grade from Ds to Bs over a 3 year period in high school and was getting A- in the final months of school but my cumulative average was still a B+.

[Avicenna]

Lots of practice and learning the concepts behind them, not just working them like recipes.

[Mahitoo]

What math exam did you take? What kind of math? Theoretical math like calculus? Or applied mathamatics?

[Iron_Man]

Practice makes perfect

[Anonymous]

Like anything, practice.