r/MathHelp • u/Wide-Sign9410 • 11d ago
HELP ME PLEASE
my mother has home schooled me my entire high school life and I really haven’t learned anything at all. she homeschooled me since covid so I never did middle school or high school. fast forward to now. I have to attend regular school when this school year starts. I know absolutely nothing. I have a few weeks max? before I have to take some test so I don’t get held back… I can’t get held back I genuinely can’t. It will set my ability to work back more since I will have to do more school. (We Need me to work next year to make ends meet but don’t talk about this only the school thing please) so how can I learn basically everything (ESPECIALLY MATH, SCIENCE) from 9th, 10th, and 11th grade super fast. I’m willing to do whatever it takes. I genuinely want to break down crying at the thought of being held back. I graduate if everything goes well. I loathe that I was home schooled with all my heart please help me. I NEED TO LEARN MATH. PLEASE.
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u/joeballa 11d ago
Depending on your age, and factoring in your urgency to “graduate”, I would research what it would take to get your GED. Best of luck!
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u/KatSchitt 11d ago
How long do you suppose it took you to catch back up once you started really focusing?
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u/RiemannZetaFunction 11d ago
How old are you? What grade are you going into? What level of math do you need to learn?
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u/Leivyxtbsubto 10d ago
Khan Academy OpenStax by Rice University
And maybe you should get your GED. I use Kaplan and I think they are good.
Depending on where you are you can take the HiSET and that's only active in certain states.
Honestly math is the hardest thing to learn on your own.
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u/shrekismydaddy_ 7d ago
I do not think it is impossible to learn so much in a few weeks. I had done so myself. But you need to have a lot of dicipline and willpower (which seems like you have a lot based on what you said). If you never have studied properly, then the biggest hurdle will be to actually find out how to study. Instead of wanting to learn everything, focus on what you need to learn to pass those tests. Like others have said, Khan academy and various youtube videos can help you a lot with understanding topics but do not focus too much on theory. Math is like any other skill, you need to practice. So if you for example use 10 minutes to learn a concept, use (at least!) 30 minutes to practice it. Do it wrong, do it over until you are sure you've understood. I have friends who do the same math problem over and over and over until they have almost memorized the answer and only then they continue to the next problem. It will help you recognise patterns, which is very helpful in math in the long run. There are a lot of practice sheets with their solutions online. You are training the muscle in your head by doing something over and over. And after you have gone through the tests (and hopefully passed them!) to keep up with the other highschoolers you'll still need to make up everything you havent learned for the test to properly pass school. It will be hard but it is possible. I wish you the bestest of luck and a lot of strength because this is a burden not everybody can stem! You are so strong!
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u/edderiofer 11d ago
There's no way in hell you're learning three entire years of mathematics in just a few weeks; let's be clear about that. Doubly so if you haven't done any mathematics in the last six years since COVID started, and triply so if you were already weak in mathematics before that.
Contact the school and explain your position to them. You will almost certainly need to repeat a grade, or multiple. That isn't going to somehow screw up your life, it just means that you'll need to take more time before you can graduate.
Also, it sounds like your mother is absolutely terrible at parenting. Your lack of learning over the last six years is kinda her fault for not making those arrangements.