Posted by alexandra_k on January 14, 2014, at 9:16:18
In reply to Re: maths, posted by alexandra_k on January 14, 2014, at 3:26:22
so the foundations program is meant to be a year long program that takes kids who perhaps didn't do well in school and / or who have had a bit of time away from school, and it aims to prepare them to do well at uni. priority to disadvantaged kids etc. they standardize test you for math and english and you have to do an interview so they can assess motivation etc etc.
they say they select the strongest maths people to do 'science math'. or basically... they run 4 math courses - but the first two are meant to be foundations for the later two... so worst case... it would take me 2 years to be prepared to do uni math.
on the one hand... it is just another year. what does it matter? on the other hand... it still feels bad enough to me that i need to take an extra year before i'm ready for uni. i knew it would be harder for me, doing the science pathway... but i didn't quite realise that it would be hard in this way...
even if i pick the health science pathway - i still have epidemiology (some stats) and chemistry (with balancing equations) etc. i'd be left with my lifelong fear of numbers. what if i do get a place in med? pretty sure we need to learn a lot of numbers around drug dosages and bodyweights and drug dosages per bodyweights and the effects of temperature etc etc etc...
if i don't get to the end of high school math... i'm pretty much screwed. can forget med. can forget engineering... can forget physics. even areas of physiology etc... and the whole math thing will be still hanging over me...
i've logged 34 hours over the last few days... of actual problem solving. staring at my progress charts not counted. i'm dreaming about numbers... subtraction is getting me down, rather a lot. i think i need to check my sums... otherwise my error rate is getting far too high. still enjoying other things... getting a lot better at geometry (would be good to be good at that). starting with basic unit of measurement conversions. haven't even gotten to times tables yet lol.
on the upside... my errors are mostly around misremembering number facts or forgetting units i've carried / taken away... no transcription errors.
i wonder how far through i'll get in... another 30 days... maybe... to the start of high school. sigh. god dammit i want this done in one year.
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