What was the most traumatic math-related experience you had?

I thought of this question when I heard someone say that they hate math… and was taking STEM. I was like “you signed up for this; what were you thinking??? :skull:”.

I also thought of a time I forgot that CFrame.lookto() existed (won’t explain what it is) and sorta had to “recreate” it using 3d trig. It’s not that bad for me but it’ll be a nightmare for many other people.

trig is extremely intuitive tho… i bet it wasnt that bad…

saw this one 25 y/o guy say I’m scared to have kids bec then I won’t be able to help them with their homework

my math midterm i had yesterday :upside_down_face:

i’m gonna drink some insanity potions on ao and pretend to be drunk or something

I struggled a lot with Limits

A lot of stuff require understanding of Limits… advanced Derivatives was nothing short of a nightmare :sleeper:

Oh and uh imaginary numbers too, the amount of formulae were soul-crushing, but atleast they let us used handheld calculators for those :skull:

i ran out of crayons trying to count to 20

my bank account

Whenever I made a clumsy mistake despite me knowing how to do the formula and answer

(I accidentally divided 2 from 320 to make 180 instead of 160 yesterday :sob:)

Maybe it was when I was asked a question about something that I should know to do with solving equations in front of at least 20 people and I had forgotten. I just had to guess and hope that the most obvious answer was correct (luckily it was) This happened today.

Another thing that wasn’t particularly traumatic but was very incorrect is when some question that was something along the lines of “using the velocity and distance away of this object, calculate the age of the universe”
Something went very wrong with my calculations and my answer was that the universe was 24 years old.

O level Kumon…

I thought it was end of high school or early uni stuff… but it has yet to appear in first year math…

i had 12 apples but then someone took 7 of them and i couldn’t figure out how many i had left

The word problem curse

To be honest here I think your issue is that someone took 7 apples from you. You got robbed

circled the question’s letter itself instead of one of the multiple choice options

When I attempted to take a qualification International Mathematical Olympiad exam in my school (I failed absolutely abysmally, along with everyone else.)

it wasn’t that bad for me but for my classmates…


(we haven’t even learned trig in school when i did this so this was all advanced knowledge i had)

how

Dream was not able to surpass their limits

Also, limits are whacky

skill issues ig. Took like 2~3 months before I actually locked in. I can do intermediate level questions but if you expect me to get them done fast, you’d be disappointed.

whats the limit of 2 as x approaches infinity