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why must I be so bad at math? why can't I be like the japanese? every time I try to learn it my brain gets tripped out. are any of you lainanons good at it? if so, how did you learn it?

You are bad at math because you believe you are bad at math. Go back to a level of math that you understand and practice up from there while reinforcing to yourself that you are good at math. On the rare chance that you are actually brain dead, just use Wolfram Alpha.

Here's how the Japanese do it: fuarrrking practice until it works. But seriously, yes, cramschools are a thing and the same principle applies.

You're not going to get it until you have an intuitive mental model for it. The best things for that are visuals though. The only reason I remember how logarithms work is because I picture the terms rearranging themselves.

asians are good at it because of their genes you will be never as good as them

There is some talent when it comes to math but it is negligble when you factor work into it. Unless you're retarded, which I doubt, you can learn maths by constantly challenging yourself to solve excercises. Think of math the same way as you think of track running. If you never run and you attempt to do a marathon then you'll want to die. If you run regularly then a marathon is a very fun challenge. I wish you success young novice.

It's probably a side effect of anime, imageboard culture, and other brain-trashing activities people impose upon themselves in doses as high as 14 hours a day.

>>6904 This. I remember my mathematical analysis teacher on the uni gave as about 60-80 exercise per week to do in home. Some were short, some were long, you didn't had to do all of them but we ware expected to do as many as possible (I probably was doing about 80% of them). There is no short way in math. You just have to practice and don't give up.

>>6895 The main mathematicians weren't asian, m8.

I was really good at it until it started looking more like alphabet soup than equasions.

I should honestly practice math more often. Thanks to technology giving me a calculator everywhere I go, I've forgotten most of the multiplication tables, and sometimes I can't even remember how to divide the old fashioned way...

https://kasperpeulen.github.io/ For me, programming was easier than math. calling commands to make something happen, giving parameters. adding, subtracting, dividing, etc. I learned math by experimenting in QBASIC with various games, changing the source code, seeing what happens. I could construct geometric shapes to teach myself ratios with the computer or straight edge and compass. The computer let me do it faster. Soon I was solving complex math problems by writing it down in code. I was years ahead of my math classes because kids were still learning long division while I was doing trig and calculus on the PC at home... just to make little games work. Being able to visualize the ratio of A:B changing as the triangle points are moved around made trig a piece of cake. I could see exactly what each SIN, COS, TAN, etc. was doing and animate it, add mouse input, etc. Now there are geometric tools for learning some things. in school it was weird "memorize this way" crap. Eventually I found Euclid's writings and discovered a better way to do math in the old classics. For instance: You have a straight edge, draw a line. Now use a compass to make a circle on the line. Put the compass point on either circle edge, Make another mark with the compass, it will be the center of the prior circle (call that zero), or a unit distance from this point. Continue making marks, one after the other, you have the number line. The other direction is negative numbers. Make a perpendicular axis on the number line, you've got the imaginary numbers... i (multiples of square root of -1). Most mathematics problems can be solved geometrically, or if not, then with ratios taken from the geometry and applied to other numbers in the problem. Being able to see the math in action as I told it to plot points and draw lines, and angles, etc. That's how I learned advanced mathematics fast as fuarrrk when I was 12 and what is this?

You will be bad at anything you don't practice.

>>8935 is it me or that game is broken?

I would say I'm fairly proficient at math, although I don't really do much of it anymore. I used to be a math tutor in high school so I was pretty much forced to learn it to earn my pay. Pretty much the only thing you can really do is sit yourself down with some problems and do them over and over until you understand the formulas/methods/etc. It won't take as long as you might think, considering the fact that many math concepts build off of each other. Hit the books kid.

>>8934 I was never able to learn the tables, I just got really quick at making the maths in my head, using shortcuts, adding positive or negative blocks of numbers, and so on. Calculus hit me hard tough, Because I was never able to learn anything by heart. I was always unable to recall basic stuff. Try to make sense of how division works, instead of just applying a method.

>>6885 >why can't I be like the japanese?