When did your math oriented student start to find math challenging?

[Anonymous]

My child is in AIM now and finds some of the material challenging, but not all.

[Anonymous]

For me, took AP Calculus as a freshmen in HS then took math at local colleges throughout the rest of hs. Breezed through all of it until I hit diff eq and it killed me. Worked my butt off and still ended up with a D in the course. That's when I knew I was not going to be a math major in college (and didn't take a single math course in college).

[Anonymous]

Oddly when he took Accounting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid is in Alg 2 in 8th grade and says it's the only class that's not boring. Translation: the only class where she needs to pay attention. Her version of paying attention means doing the freshly assigned homework while the teacher is expounding the day's problems, and then reading for the rest of the period. She occasionally finds errors in the problems, and as soon as she nears the teacher's desk, the teacher goes "OK, what have I got wrong now?".

I don't think she will ever find math difficult in MCPS. She takes after her mathematician father. Her older brother and I had a less happy relationship with math... even though I'm a research scientist. You can still enter STEM disciplines without liking math!

Yeah, right. What a genius you have!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid is in Alg 2 in 8th grade and says it's the only class that's not boring. Translation: the only class where she needs to pay attention. Her version of paying attention means doing the freshly assigned homework while the teacher is expounding the day's problems, and then reading for the rest of the period. She occasionally finds errors in the problems, and as soon as she nears the teacher's desk, the teacher goes "OK, what have I got wrong now?".

I don't think she will ever find math difficult in MCPS. She takes after her mathematician father. Her older brother and I had a less happy relationship with math... even though I'm a research scientist. You can still enter STEM disciplines without liking math!

Exactly. There's a ST in STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid is in Alg 2 in 8th grade and says it's the only class that's not boring. Translation: the only class where she needs to pay attention. Her version of paying attention means doing the freshly assigned homework while the teacher is expounding the day's problems, and then reading for the rest of the period. She occasionally finds errors in the problems, and as soon as she nears the teacher's desk, the teacher goes "OK, what have I got wrong now?".

I don't think she will ever find math difficult in MCPS. She takes after her mathematician father. Her older brother and I had a less happy relationship with math... even though I'm a research scientist. You can still enter STEM disciplines without liking math!

Yeah, right. What a genius you have!

Doesn't have to be a genius. MCPS math isn't that challenging for children that are strong in math.

[Anonymous]

in their Masters program, grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child is in AIM now and finds some of the material challenging, but not all.

consider them fortunate then since that's not a bad problem to have

[Anonymous]

Functions

[Anonymous]

Or the first time they have a not great teacher. It is amazing how different a kids experience can be based on the quality of the teacher. Our DD has been very lucky. Our DS extremely unlucky. Those few year of low quality instruction and subsequent are always very challenging because you lose the fundamental knowledge base to work from.

[Anonymous]

Mine was on the Functions path at Poolesville. I think 12th grade Vector / MV calculus started to get challenging.

Functions was the first math class in MCPS that he said was interesting and at the right level.

Went through CES / MS magnet.

[Anonymous]

For me Differential Equations in college was where it became clear that I didn't want to have to work that hard @ math. Up until then had no issue and barely had to study, but that seemed totally different. I switched to Econ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junior year of college? Although it seems to programming part is more challenging for him than the math (majoring in Computational Modeling & Data Analytics)

+1. I have a jr. right and agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid is in H.AlgII and is flying through. Does his homework but never seems to study. Lacks exec functioning so I still check his assignments. I'll often say oh, I see you have a math test tomorrow. And he'll think about it and say oh yeah--completely nonplussed. He doesn't study and does well on the tests. I'm just wondering when he's going to start finding math difficult.

College

Not in MCPS ever for math major.

pp with the jr. son in college. No challenge in MCPS for math.

[Anonymous]

Calculus BC in HS with a hard-core teacher who took no prisoners and accepted no excuses. DS was that kid with executive functioning issues, and his BC teacher (who also taught his multivariable course the next year) got him to straighten up and fly right. He sat down and did the problem sets every night without fail, went in for help when he needed it, and got a 5 on the AP test along with most if not all of his class.

His teacher grew up in South Korea, which I don't think is a coincidence -- their math and science education system is head and shoulders above ours.