How do I get better at math, /sci/? no memes please It's

>>8547865
What do you suck at

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1. Read/watch other people do math. Learn how they do it.
1a. If you can, try and find multiple people doing the same problem in different ways. This prevents you from 'overspecializing' in one particular approach and finding yourself helpless if it fails.
1b. This is going to be more controversial, but if you can find people doing [math]bad[/math] math, do so. (By which I mean relying on faulty or non-rigorous reasoning.) If you can explain why they're incorrect, or where their errors come from, it will increase your understanding of the topic. 4chan is actually pretty good for this, if nothing else because of the lack of avenues for you to learn from mistakes.

2. Practice. You've probably heard this one before: start by copying what you've seen in (1.), then try and tackle some problems on your own. If you often find yourself unsure of how to proceed, or making too many mistakes, go back to (1.) and do more of (1a-1b.).

3. Make your own notes, or better yet try and explain the topic to someone else. You know you've internalized and understood it if you can explain it in a simple manner.

>>8547883
There's nothing in particular that I'm "bad" at per say, it's just that my knowledge is very basic. I've never had an active interest in math until recently, but I'm roughly on a high school
civics senior level.

I wouldn't mind revising everything I was taught in high school in order to improve my foundation because usually I'll just compensate for my shaky math knowledge with logical thinking, basically by doing what >>8547909 called bad math
>1b. This is going to be more controversial, but if you can find people doing bad math

I find math interesting and physics even more so; especially algebra and I'd rather try my luck and improve rather than feel handicapped without attempting to get gud.

So rather than improving in a specific field, basic guidelines that aren't too apparent would be really helpful. I guess if there's anything specific I'd like to get better at then it would be linear functions.

>>8547954
Go to college

>>8547954
khanacademy.org

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>>8547865
There is no royal road.

>>8547865
I'm in the process of doing the same. I'm looking for textbooks that friends might have lying around and am learning what I can through YouTube.

I'm writing all of my work down in a notebook and I'm making notes explaining the subject matter to myself.

>>8548140
practice, practice, practice.

Get a textbook on whatever you're struggling in and practice the fuck out of every problem in the book. Do all of the tests in it and go back and read what you don't understand.

This doesn't mean just do all of the odd ones either. Search up the even ones on something like Wolfram. You're going to get frustrated at first because of all the mistakes you're committing; however, it will get much easier because you will understand not to make the same mistakes in the future.

>>8547957
I will, eventually.

I'M SO FUCKING STUPID AT MATHS AND I WANNA BE A FUCKING COMPUTER SCIENTIST

HERE'S THE FUCKING DEAL.
BRITFAG HERE, AND I'M SO SHIT AT MATHS, THAT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH PROPERLY OR DON'T KNOW WHAT APOSTROPHES ARE, ARE IN THE SAME CLASSES AS ME.

I WANNA FUCKING KILL MYSELF I CAN'T STUDY OR REVISE SHIT BECAUSE I KEEP THINKING ABOUT GAY PORN.

FUCK! IT ENDS TONIGHT!

>>8548200
calm down.

>>8548200
Whoa there, brother.

I'm a computer scientist, and I suck at math. Ask me whatever you want.

>>8547865
Go do some edx course on calculus. Look up the trigonometric functions as you go.

Read the following:

Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang

Stewart Calculus edition 8th

Serway Physics 9th

then you're set. if you have these three then you can go into every other field.

>>8547954
Algebra by Gelfand and Shen
Functions and Graphs by Gelfand, Glagoleva, and Shnol
The Method of Coordinates by Gelfand, Glagoleva, and Kirillov
Trigonometry by Gelfand and Saul
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Smith, Eggen, and St. Andre
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, Lavrentev, Sobolev, Gel'fand, et al.