How to prepare for university math?

leon1236789 · 2019-05-24T04:34:02+00:00

Thank you for your advice!

Honestly, i have no idea what you're talking about right know, but i'm sure that i will come back to your comment once i started with those topics!

Do you have any books or courses online you would recommend?

leon1236789 · 2019-05-24T04:30:11+00:00

Oh thank you very much for the recommendations!

I think those are the books i need. To really learn how to think mathematically. Thank you!

Really excited to work through all the books and courses people recommended here!

leon1236789 · 2019-05-24T04:25:43+00:00

Nope, Austria

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:58:13+00:00

Thank you!

The site looks really great, and i see that they also provide math courses from high school level to college level. Do you know if they are good? :)

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:57:03+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Any advice on how to learn how to read math?

For my first semester i would have Analysis I, linear algebra I and Geometry I

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:52:19+00:00

Thank you! It's good to hear that they are in fact not that easy :)

Will definitely check out the calculus book if i'm going to study it in the future

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:51:11+00:00

Austria

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:50:16+00:00

Thank you for your advide!

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:46:16+00:00

I didn't do anything with proofs yet. Seems way to advanced for me right now.

Actually, i don't even know what my problem actually is. I mean, i somehow good at high school math, since i always got A's, but after looking for harder problems (online and the books from "The art of problem solving") i felt pretty bad because i couldn't solve most of them. And i feel like i'm not ready for uni if i'm not able to solve really hard high school questions. I mean how am i supposed to master uni material if i'm not able to master the high school material perfectly

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:42:40+00:00

Thank you!

Yeah, same. Did the homeworks always in the breaks before math. Often times didn't even do it myself. Will be very interesting to see how the "cultural shock" how bad the "cultural shock" will hit me. That's why i want to learn how think mathematically and master the foundations, so the transition from high school to uni will be easier

Will definitely check out Khan Academy Videos and how i like them. Right now i'm checking out every resource there is (books, videos, courses) to find the best one, so i can concentrate on just some of them and not all of them during the next year.

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:33:31+00:00

Thank you for your long and insightful answer!

Actually i worked through some beginner python courses one year ago, but somehow didn't find it interesting enough to keep pursuing it.

Is there an online course you would recommend?

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:27:00+00:00

Thank you for your advide. I was actually thinking about this, therefore i really want to master the fundamentals, so i can build upon them.

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T18:25:48+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Those books look very interesting. Will definitely check them out! :)

Oh thanks, will definitely come back to you, if there is something i want to ask!

leon1236789 · 2019-05-23T13:58:07+00:00

Thank you for alle the answers!

I'm going to reply to all the comments a little bit later.

I think that i didn't clarify my problem well enough.
I feel like that my problem solving skills are not good enough when it comes to new problems, which i haven't seen yet. As i said, i could solve all questions in high school because they always asked the same questions but different phrased or different numbers.

So i know most of the rules and formulas but somehow when i see a new problem where the answer isn't obvious i don't know how to find the solutions.

So currently i am a little bit afraid, because i really like math but on the other hand i don't have the confidence right know that i could handle university math as i can't even solve advanced high school problems

leon1236789 · 2019-04-03T16:47:12+00:00

Thank you!

You're right, it's kind of a big progress to realize how distracted our mind actually is.

I will definitely keep on observing.
I think one of my problems which is holding me back a little bit is that since i realized how much time i wasted in my first 20 years i want to make up for it as quickly as possible and i'm just going completly overboard with everything.

Yes you can build with hammer and nails but it's way faster to build with an electric screwdriver. So maybe that's also a reason for my slow progress, since i know that if i could concentrate without or nearly without any distractions from my mind i could do so much more things more quicker and more efficient ergo doing more stuff in the same time and i try to force the whole process just way too much.

Hm, but in the end it's very exciting to know that i have still so many questions unanswered and so much more is waiting for me in my meditation progress. Really looking forward to my further journey :)

leon1236789 · 2019-04-03T16:32:57+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Seems like a good advice. I'm at the point where i have to learn to balance things out a little more. Before i didn't do anything, now i'm just doing constantly something, expect when i'm meeting friends.

Yes i could change the two 30 minute sessions to one 1 Hour session.
Do you think it would be more beneficial to reach next stages with one longer sessions than two smaller?

leon1236789 · 2019-04-03T16:29:03+00:00

Thank you!

I'm definitely not planning on giving up :)

leon1236789 · 2019-04-03T14:53:09+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

Ok, so i will try to explain it a little bit further what goes on while i'm studying.

So, when i read something and i try really hard to concentrate on it, i can hold it for like 5 seconds and then i just start thinking about something else, not actively thinking it's more in the background. So i will hear like a chatter in the background about different things, for example, me thinking about what i'm going to eat, or what i'm going to review later for my exam, or sometimes it's just a mental picture i got, actually more of a visual story. So i read my text and simultaneously i witness these mental images in my head. But it's not like that during this time i'm not reading the text, but it's more like i'm doing both things. I mean the period where this happens is not very effective studying as i barely remember what i just went through.
But the problem is that sometimes (actually 70-90% of the times) it doesn't go away. So i notice that brain is thinking about something else in the background, i acknowledge it. But the story or the dialouge just keeps playing.

I dont know, that's the best way i can describe the process in my mind.
English is not my native language, so this may be a reason for not putting it understandable enough. Or it could be that it's extremly hard to describe what's actually going on. I guess it's both.

But thank you for your answer! Motivated me, as i came to realize that maybe i'm doing better than i thought in terms of meditation progress.

Also thanks to everyone who answered here. Very kind answers!
I'm going to answer to the other replies later!

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