The world told me that I would not be good at math. It took me over 50 years to realize that was my own doubt and fear. As old as I am now, I have no doubt or fear. I "regret " giving up before I tried. But, I'm glad that I gained the courage before I closed my eyes. If you're interested, TRY!

The Classical Seven Liberal Arts & Science consist of two groups: The Trivium: Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric and The Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music & Astronomy (Physics). We should all have some knowledge of these subjects.

If you "sucked at math" is school, don't deprive yourself of the opportunity to take another crack at it. Find a pre-Common Core textbook in Arithmetic, Algebra, or wherever you slid off the rails, and give it another attempt. You'll be surprised how different it looks after the passage of time and life experiences.

So I am a disabled neurodivergent that has worked with people with wide variety of disability and neurodivergences. People often really underestimate there mathematical ability and others overestimate bc math is taught so horribly. People think math ability is just computing in head large numbers time large number or memorizing, but it can be so much more and so many different ways to be mathematically "talented". But even beyond that, if you're not talented, you can still contribute a lot bc maybe you good educator bc you understand struggles, in a spceific application like using math to solve certain problems others have not gotten to yet, etc. bc math is everywhere. However, there are some who truly are not math people and thats okay. What we need is courses and education system where its okay for people to fail, explore, etc. and find out talents later and life and take risks like this. Now people only pursue stuff when its easy at first often or for job or something, so many potentials are missed. Then that pressure can lead to anxiety and hate of math. Secondly, we need to focus on getting people interested in math in courses not just teach, even if course is less "dense" if we get passionate learner they will use it more, practice, and pursue more. Thirdly, we should learn to accommodate and judge less and actually allow more in. Humans are horrible judges of humans as history have seen and all of bigotry can attest too. People naturally to some extent pursue passions and thats most important to have field progress: passion not genius. People who truly do not like math or do not see it will drop out and pursue other stuff often, we do not need as many other fences. Fences should only made for unsafe things or when resources low (and then we should try to make resources better etc.)

what I don't like about studying is the fixed timeframe. There are topics I need to learn for three of for weeks to get it, but the allocates only two weeks for it. If it's an foundation you are getting trouble where one or two weeks extra for a specific thing would have solved the issue. But because of snow ball effect you have to repeat a semester. Or a certain course that is a dependency for another one. But it's one you have to repeat three times. That will cause havoc on your study, because you lost connection to your study group who simply moved on with the curriculum. Things like these can compound.

These videos have helped fall in love with math all over again!!! I have been cruising past howard anton's elementary linear algebra in order to strengthen my econometrics and finally i m able to truly appreciate data in the form of vectors and hyperdimensional objects!! Thank you!!

Hard work beats talent until talent works hard.

everyone needs a solid understanding of math. the average person probably wont use calculus, but algebra can be incredibly useful everyday. i think math is definitely for everyone even if most people wont like it. additionally i do think everyone should be exposed to more difficult math at some point. for me integral calculus made me fall in love with math when I was 14. if it wasn't for the sheer difficulty and beauty of calculus i wouldn't have learned much math

I don't think math is for everyone, but I think (almost) everyone can be decently proficient at math. I'm a slightly older (25 years old) returning college student studying engineering and I was super nervous about taking math courses at my local university. In high school I was lazy, unmotivated, and almost never did math homework. I just barely scraped by with passing grades in whatever math course I took, bar senior year when I took a finite math course and actually started to put effort in, but now I'm a straight-A student and I probably work harder than most of my classmates since I've had to relearn many subjects or concepts.

Math can be addictive. It's like the brain enjoys it.

I don't think I am good at math but I still have a very strong interest in it. I think it is great that this guy puts out these videos.

As someone who for 12 years had lost my passion for Mathematics, I can definitively say for me the thing that was holding me back from loving Math was myself and my negative experiences with Math. And perhaps the fear that I'll never get better than a C in Calculus (I've taken it twice so far, once in High school 11 years ago my senior year and second in college about 10 years ago). How do you change that? By being motivated to put in the time and effort to figure out what was holding you back in Math. For me it was Trigonometry and my weak foundation and terrible teacher I had 12 years ago in my Junior year of High School. He wasn't strict but he was almost too lenient and in a class like precalculus it's not something that benefits you in the long run. Half of the battle is identifying the problem! Now I am majoring in Math for my Bachelor's to become a Middle or High School Math teacher! Going back even further, when I was in elementary school (20-25 years ago) I hated Math! So yes, Math can most definitely be for everyone!

I did math for a living (accounting), and now I live to do math.

What an amazingly well written and thoughtful email. I myself am intensely good at the physical realm, my recent accomplishment was to build a Mitsubishi 4 cyl diesel engine mated to a Renault transaxle with a BMW cooling system. I thought I would pursue a mathematics degree at the local college. It has been an intense struggle and have since chosen to self study for my own personal enrichment. Today I got to explain to a 8 year old the concept of square roots and exponents, they were thrilled at the knowledge drop from the old mechanic. So while I might not be great at mathematics and mechanics is were I forge my coin, I can't say I would have it any other way! 1200 = 2^4*3^1*5^2 :)

Math is for EVERYONE! Perhaps all don’t need to pursue the same areas or levels but all should study some. After emerging from cancer surgery I asked a nurse the tumor size. She looked at the chart and said, “10 millimeters.” I responded with great relief that it was so minuscule. Then she looked at the chart again and said, “oh! It’s actually 10 centimeters.” The contrast between the two is a minor risk or a lethal monster. I want my HCPs to know the difference.

I don't think the defeatist attitude of "I can't change society" is helping. You've got 815k subscribers and growing every day. You can change society, dude!

Few days ago i finally started studying for my GMAT exams… all because of your videos, everytime i feel like its getting too much or i feel like giving up, i just watch one of your videos that seems relevant and it gives me hope. Thankyou Math Sorcerer!

Hello! I am naturally a creative person and good at learning languages. When i finished high school my art teacher said that she wishes to visit my art gallery once. While I still study languages actively, I rarely pursue art which I try to change. However I chose media informatics as my bachelor degree. And i suppose its not anything like a talent, in fact i have to work extra hard to understand certain concepts. I dont want to sound ridiculous but i had to look up the exponentiation laws when i had my first calculus assignment in university. However I dont really care now. I want to be good at math and thats it. My grandpa used to be a well rounded guy who was educated in math literature history and art. I think it’s possible to be like this. So what I do right now is work extra hard. And all that while not being naturally good at math. I just believe that I will understand it someday and solve problems like cracking nuts.

Everyone should study everything they can, as best as they can, from the cradle to the grave. When it comes to education in general and math in particular, the people who *struggle with it the most* may *need it the most,* and as a society we should make reasonable efforts to accommodate them. The majority of people are of average ability, and if we can get them up to a certain basic standard, it would fundamentally change the world. All of the above combined would create the ultimate society and culture for the most gifted among us to thrive in.

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Math sorcer your videos are fun to watch.Please continue make a lot more.Talent and natural ability and grades are great videos to be made.I would like to see more motivational videos.

Another reason for those types of classes is that a student nasty have no idea they like a subject, or have a gift for another, and this could indicate paths for future, perhaps, advanced study.

@The Math Sorcerer : 100% right on natural skills use what you have not trying to learn something you cannot grasp , said it before Math is not a coat that fits everyone .......

Before previous year i thought that i wasnt made for math however i understand it pretty well and liked it in school and i honestly hate the anxiety i had always felt with not being good enough in subject just because i wasnt „naturally gifted” in it. last year ive changed my major to math because the one in which i supposed to be naturally good just felt boring to me and thank god i did that because i love every second of studying it!!!

You're my inspiration Math Sorcerer

I think it’s not for everyone, although it is not that people can’t learn math. As you mentioned some people are good at singing, some at acting, some at engineering and some in math. I was good at math in school and university, but to me it was always a “tool” to accomplish something than a goal itself. I remember some of the classes on topology were like super complicated and we did some exercises, but at that point it became too abstract to me. Sometimes I visit some wikipedia articles on math and I realize that it is so complex that I have no idea what is written there at all. And at the same time I realize that it’s not something I want to invest my time into because my primary interest is in different field.

Hey man love your videos! Youve been helping me a ton. Please keep making these. Even after I stop there are plenty more of us out there that need your help. Thanks!

Well expressed. Certainly true I think it's a year or more to work out all the woods, the grains, the types of defects, (shakes, twists, winding etc) how trees grow (coniferous, the classifications and so on) if you want to make a piece of furniture properly. You could argue that a fully trained, master carpenter has as much skill and experience as a maths professor. We should be careful with the idea some subjects are easy, less difficult. Actually everything to do it really well is hard work, takes years to learn. I think for "art", drawing isn't really the same thing or necessary to express creativity. Many architects drawings and fashion designers, to me at least, are often quite simple, even crude but it gets the job done. Then you can look at Degas the French artist and see possibly the greatest drawings ever done. I remember plenty of students at art school who could draw well but had zero imagination, and the opposite who had plenty of ideas but drew badly. Also drawing, creativity is something that gets better with more effort. It's like they eye begins to look, see patterns and relationships and so on. So it's always useful, if you can, to maybe draw something from life, even for ten minutes a day. It also improves focus.

The math sorcerer, thanks for your insights! I like your videos. Of course everyone has to learn basic math: arithmetic, school algebra, plain geometry with a small chunk of trig. As I understand the question is not should anybody learn to math, but for what extent one should learn math and other subjects like physics and so on. There was a very interesting opinion on this subject from @gaglichtg4840 (I agree with him), and some others here. I don't know about American's educational system at school. But as for post-soviet schools (Kazakhstan), we learn math including calculus 1, and it's redundant thing for pupils. In math I would leave only algebra and geometry but in more depth. I think it would be more useful and interesting. And this depth (more algebra, more geometry, more trig, and even calculus if a pupil want it) only for those who are interested in math. Also I saw some post-soviet textbooks including not only calculus 1, but basic stuff of statistics. What a real reason to do such textbooks, when 90% of pupils don't really understand algebra and trig ?! It seems nonsense for me, for what pupils these textbooks are !?

People are going to need math in carpentry. People are going to need math on some job applications I remember a job application when I was 16 or 17 for cashier at a clothing store that had math problems on the back of it. Its okay if people don't want to do math. Math is no more than the equivalent of a Sudoku puzzle for me. Sudoku puzzles actually got me into doing math😆. I wanted something more challenging. I recall my school days when I failed math I failed math through junior high and high school I failed a Basic Algebra class in 9th grade, but a few months later after I dropped out of school, I was actually able to do the math when I went back through the math book I actually think they could have children capable of doing algebra by 5th or 6th grade. Prealgebra is just basically elementary math with some very simple algebra included anyway

If someone doesn't have this "gift" and is willing to work hard (while to others it comes easier) then they will simply be decent at something, with the potential to achieve something extraordinary. You might not be a Mozart, but you can be a great music teacher, musician.

You are speaking in reference to nothing having to do with simple math, you are speaking of the parables understanding very carefully what you say and how you say it completely taking into consideration being genuinely careful in valuing the child like faith which is a truth that is the reality which many have tried to explain, and solve. Hence the attempts to come up with a hypothesis and answer in search for where the unexplainable which even the individuals who are considered the best on your end, have no definite answer for regardless what logistics analysis and extensive experience with complex problems that many cannot comprehend, yet, even then, there is a freedom that one receives in the peace of simply resting in what I’ve witnessed which truly supports and contradicts what I could not solve by intense problem solving, and embracing the realization that even those who thought they control the flow of much of many situations many are not aware of, the unexplained miracles and revelations are the answer to what does not have to be explained in perfection, rather it be a place of rest for the exhausted and weary individuals, who can be at peace by faith, and let go of the need to know what cannot be learned by human wisdom, but can be understood in 3 words There is Hope

Sir can you make videos on conic sections including ellipse and hyperbola related math books. Please sir

The first 100 or so pages of "Machinery's Handbook" is all math.

This is a tough video to get posted while I’m solving homogeneous equations

Everyone can learn math, but math is not for everyone.

Math isn't for everyone. I hired a tutor to try and pass my high school course, I didn't graduate, and no matter how much he tries to explain it to me and I'm just sitting there like, I'm just wasting my money on something I'll never understand. Some get it, some don't.

What if we enjoy math even if we're bad at it, and struggle immensely with it? Is there just no hope? Do we avoid jobs that we'd like to have?

You’re so cool

i think some people are significantly limited. but not that many people, but i mean i think even a person with an iq of 80 can learn some basic calculus or even ace high school math and physics. i think a lot of this stuff in in the attitude and poor educational material. IMO, maybe i am wrong or something, but i think people usually can exceed their own and others expectations. i don't think people should be forced beyond a certain level, but i think it is possible to teach a lot faster and a lot more complicated things to people, i just think they have mental blockers, they fear being wrong, they are not curious to see how it works and so on. i honestly think it is as hard to do long division as solving a mid level high school physics problem. we didn't just get a brain power update in 1850 or something.

I believe that being a mathematician is not for everyone, just as not everyone can be a doctor, engineer, lawyer, therapist, whatever. There are multiple intelligences, not everybody has all of them.

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I do not agree that some people should just not study maths because they may struggle with it or dont understand it as easily as others. I feel in these instances they dont engage with it because they may need a different type of teaching, maybe something that shows maths in a more practicle light. I started to get interested in maths because I want to make games and that requires maths. I think anyone can be good or even great at maths or other feilds. And I think that 'talent' is kind of a myth in the way we know it, that is used to gatekeep education when the reality is that all these subjects that are 'hard' just require someone to have a different perspective of the problem. I do think that people may be faster than others but given enough time they can still be great.

The one time I don’t know if I agree with my Calc Professor. On my exam she included a question where we had to find the derivative of the inverse function using a table. We didn’t cover it in class but there was a question like that on the mymathlab homework. Was she right to include it on the exam?

Math sorcerer what are your thoughts on the reimann hypothesis?

Sir you are looking as same as Sir ISAAC Newton

Not everyone is learning math to be the next Terence Tao in the same way not everyone lifting weights is trying to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Math is an amazing compliment to a variety of other subjects, hobbies, or careers at any level. Also seeing education as something requiring ROI nearly guarantees you'll be disappointed with that "investment". Go to school to enrich your life and learn how to learn and you won't regret it.

"Everything You Need to Ace Chemistry in One Big Fat Notebook " Sir could you please guide me how can I get this book I live in Pakistan and I need it for chemistry Olympiad preparation . I'm waiting for your response.

Maths and meth r similar They both r addictive

Math teaches the valuable life skill of problem solving. Even if you don't use math skills as a part of your career, math still gives you a tool box of different ways of thinking about challenges that you will face in your career. In most cases, "smart people" don't have a special gift. They just have a broader foundation of knowledge built by learning and retaining the basics in a lot of areas of learning that the average person considers useless. Math, literature, music, art. etc. Math is a key part of that foundation for everyone.

$20k ,fully funds my Bachelors in medicine n sergery for 5 years in my country. I request for support.i got A in biology at highschool.

I see on your videos that you receive emails. How do we find out your email address or is it private?

Even carpenters benefit from math. Try understanding how a tape measure works without understanding fractions. Is it not beneficial for a carpenter to know that a 3x4x5 triangle produces a square angle? My concern, being a high school dropout that loves to learn, is the cost of books. I have invested 10s of thousands of dollars on textbooks over my lifetime. I never pursued an engineering degree because I knew that I would not be able to repay student loans. Now, I have to purchase used textbooks that were paid for by the taxpayers (thanks to Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program) and the students who made poor financial decisions to take on debt they can't afford are benefiting twice. Realizing the cost of new textbooks is high, it seems doubly unfair that their student debt is forgiven AND they can resell their textbooks for market value. Wouldn't it be fairer if those who had their debt forgiven were forced to donate their textbooks to public libraries instead of profiting on the back of taxpayers like myself? They already have an unfair advantage after receiving their sheepskin!

Revelation trig is vital part of calculus.duh

This is a little too elitist for me. People with natural aptitude don't necessarily do better at a particular thing because they get lazy. I am back in school after changing my career of 20 years. I got an A in calculus during my first semester back, but oh was it painful. I'd spend 8 hours or so a day doing math homework. If I let that discourage me, I would've never had the courage to change my major to math. I've learned that higher math is often just dependent upon how good your grasp is of lower subjects. How good my basics are. Unlike a kid straight out of high school, I did not have years of algebra practice to pull me through calculus and I suffered accordingly. I'm about to take calc 3 and in order to set myself up for success, I've spent a lot of time going back over algebra to rehash things I've been forgetting due to lack of use. Can anyone do math? Probably not. I couldn't do this when I was young as I didn't want to spend my time studying when there was a world to explore. But if someone has the drive and near average intelligence, it's definitely possible.

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