Posted by alexandra_k on February 8, 2014, at 23:21:47
In reply to Re: oops, i did it again, posted by baseball55 on February 8, 2014, at 18:50:02
the strategy of seeing what most people do... and then fairly much doing the opposite seems to have worked out well for me thus far.
haha. kidding aside, i think i'll be alright - precisely because it is remedial math. it isn't high level. it isn't that hard. it is just that it is cumulative and there are lots of consensus / arbitrary things that you need to know. otherwise you don't know what you are being asked to do. i'll get there...
i am doing quite well. i just get ahead a bit in my mind and think i'm nearly done when i'm not really all that close. i still have 23 skills to master in year 6 - i really thought i only had 5 or so left...
i have sorted out the long division. it is just setting it up differently, is all. i basically was doing it like that. though i wasn't subtracting... adding that in gives me an additional check along the way... so that is cool. dividing fractions is easy - just keep the decimal where it is. 125 is a wonderful magical special number that converts a fraction with 8 as a denomenator into a fraction in thousandth place - like how 25 is a wonderful magical special number that converts a fraction with 4 as a denomenator into a fraction in tenths place (because 25 goes into 100 4 times and 125 goes into 1000 8 times ahahahahaha!). so f*ck*ng simple once you know how. and... long division wasn't a wonderful magical way of making dividing two or three digit numbers easier (like how recombining makes subtraction a whole lot easier)... sigh. you just do rounding and estimating and computing for that. like i was doing already.
yay.
turns out... the phone conversation i overheard... might have been her phone interview with my referee. rather than her chatting to the maths tutor about me. i am starting to feel calmer...
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