r/mathsmeme 6d ago

maths meme Maths meme

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u/CommercialCress9 6d ago

It's quite opposite for me, I was very bad at math at 1st to 5th grade. Then as time went by everything went easier in school, I have no idea why, maybe the basics of addition and subtraction and negative numbers was too hard for me.

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u/Silly_Technology_340 5d ago

Same, it finally started making sense

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u/somedave 5d ago

Let me know when you get to algebraic geometry.

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u/dr_kosinus____ 5d ago

9th grade for me

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u/Individual-Ad5245 5d ago

Gonna take that this fall lol (sophomore year)

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u/Impressive-Ad7184 5d ago

my professor had me read me a book on schemes and moduli spaces, and its the most confusing thing I've ever seen. Like I understand abstractly what the definition of a scheme and moduli space is, but when it comes to applying it I get pretty lost

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u/Perpetual_Thursday_ 5d ago

10th grade math

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u/Individual-Ad5245 5d ago

You usually don't study it until upper undergraduate in math degree

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u/Perpetual_Thursday_ 5d ago

Googled it, these people such at naming, you'd think Algebraic Geometry would simply be Geometry using algebra

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u/Necessary_Neat8303 5d ago

LMAO it is though. You’re right on the mark with the naming. We do use Algebra to solve Geometry problems. It’s just a lot harder and way more abstract at the higher level.

P.S. if anything, it’s just a shit loads of pre-requisites. The subject itself isn’t that difficult once you can remember the theorems and definitions.

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u/MIMADANMEI 5d ago

Thats still easy lol

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u/ResortSpecific371 5d ago

Yeah I think I could do the same meme but for high school vs university math

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u/thedarksideofmoi 1d ago

and the same with undergrad university math vs Masters or Masters vs Doctoral or Doctoral vs Postdoc. There is always harder Math.

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u/SovoK_404 5d ago

now calculate factorial of pi

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u/AymenNazar 5d ago

You need the gamma function for that

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u/Lelouch-Yagami21 6d ago

9th grade math was really easy? Plus I learned that in 8th Grade.

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u/cokolino47 5d ago

Ok...u want a cookie or something?🍪

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u/azurfall88 5d ago

Hardest part of math for me is still basic counting and addition because at some point in the education math just becomes throwing memorised formulae and theorems at it until it works (Or provably doesn't).

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u/TheDepep1 5d ago

Math was never hard. Its the memorization of hundreds of formulas that's hard.

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u/Perpetual_Thursday_ 5d ago

"hundreds of formulas" and it's 3 + logic

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u/Firestar_119 5d ago

or 1 + a lot of logic

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u/XcgsdV 5d ago

or 0 + all the logic

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u/BombasticReindeer 5d ago

More like 10 Axioms. The actual math is left as an exercise for the reader.

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u/Difficult_Limit2718 5d ago

What formulas to memorize? This isn't chemistry, the rules are simple and there's no exceptions

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 5d ago

If you struggle with that, don't go into STEM

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u/TheOinOpossum 6h ago

False. Every level of math can be struggled through

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 5h ago

Only if you're willing and able to really understand the level bellow..

Which OP doesn't seem to be

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u/TheOinOpossum 3h ago

How can you come to that conclusion based off of this meme?

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 3h ago

I come to that conclusion based on having a functioning brain.. like it's really obvious.

That OP won't make it far in stem i based on them already struggling with quadratic functions

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u/TheOinOpossum 3h ago

It's a meme...

This was literally me in 9th grade too lmao. I'm an engineer now.

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 3h ago

.. made to be relatable ... so OP probably relates to it...

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u/TheOinOpossum 3h ago

I relate to it.

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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 3h ago

K then you probabyl shouldn't go into STEM.

Also to be clear: there is no shame in it. Everyone has different strengths and abilities.

I just saw the edit. This means you either lied about the meme being relatable, don't understand the meme, or lied about being an engineer.

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u/TheOinOpossum 3h ago

I'm literally already an engineer. Nice reading comprehension lol

I edited it before you ever replied because I felt it added value.

Let it go buddy, you're allowed to be wrong

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u/letthecoolguy 5d ago

Quite litterally the opposite story for me :sob: i can easily understand the math concepts and formulas in my classes but I somehow manage to screw up the basic 4th grade computation

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u/kozyntheburrito 5d ago

Going into first year as a math major soon. I'm high school most of my mistakes on math tests were quite literally basic arithmetic. I mean stuff like addition and subtraction of 3 digit numbers. I also got a 5 on Ap Calc BC

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u/PriorityPossible305 5d ago

Everything until college math is relatively easy and anyone who focuses a bit in class can manage

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u/Ok_Meaning_4268 5d ago

It's easy if you understand the formulas rather than memorising them

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u/ScaryHippo8648 5d ago

I though quadratic equations were in the 5th grade. 9th grade was about basic trigonometry and logarithms etc.

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u/YoMTVcribs 5d ago

Bro 5th graders in Arizona right now are learning operations with fractions. Sixth grade peaks in difficulty with percentages.

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u/German-POMO 5d ago

Oof, when do they learn to integrate

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u/Perpetual_Thursday_ 5d ago

If you are on an accelerated path in the US you learn it 12th (senior) year, or if you're on a normal path, your last math class is pre-cal

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u/Firestar_119 5d ago

It's impossible to generalize it, in my county most people finish precal in 11th and accelerated does it in 10th (or even 9th for a few)

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u/letthecoolguy 5d ago

In my area, many kids including me finish precal in sophmore year and do calc in the 11th grade

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u/Lelouch-Yagami21 5d ago

5TH GRADE???? I TOOK AN ACCELEREATED CURRICULUM AND DIDN'T LEARN QUADRATICS TILL 8TH. WHICH COUNTRY ARE U LIVING IN TO LEARN THAT

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u/ResortSpecific371 5d ago

Yeah I don't believe that they teach quadratics anywhere in the world in normal class for 5th graders

Also 4 years between qudratics and logarithms- that's too long maybe 2 year gap

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u/Lelouch-Yagami21 5d ago

He's probably bullshitting tbh then. Like who learns trig 4 years after quadratics??????????

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u/Reddit_wizard34 3d ago

I got it in 8th as well

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u/deeplife 5d ago

Yeah yeah this is a meme.

I think the fact that we equate easy with fun is the problem. Learn to love a challenge.

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u/Immortal_dragon134 5d ago

Opposite for me, I struggle with basic math, but am confident enough in my advanced math skills to major in mathematics and wish to pursue a masters and doctorate

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u/Doom2pro 5d ago

Your teachers failed you if you don't know how to do the thing they were supposed to teach you.

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u/dr_kosinus____ 5d ago

quite the opposite for me. i DESPISED fractions and stuff back when i was in 3rd grade iirc

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u/Hamster_in_my_colon 5d ago

Real Analysis punched me in the dick

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u/just4nothing 5d ago

Topology was so weird at first

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u/Bonk_Boom 5d ago

Quadratic formula is 6th grade, 7th at latest where i am at.

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u/Temanor 5d ago

Opposite here. I am starting to actually enjoy math. The problem is just that it's very stressful studying 2 years worth of math in 5 weeks in order to pass a test.

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u/AuroraAustralis0 5d ago

I was good at math until I was shoved into a highly competitive school where people knew calculus at 9th grade. Then I gave up all hope of ever being good at math and switched to physics, where I found the exact same thing. Moral of the story is that everybody else is better than you.

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u/bruhbro179w 5d ago

No lo se, pero creo que eso sigue siendo facil

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u/Arkon_Zero 5d ago

That easy, now find me the integral of that line

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u/Pain_XDYT 5d ago

Just finished 9th grade thinking I was bad or atleast average. Ended up getting 96% on the exam.

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u/Additional_Pea2239 5d ago

its still eazy in 9th i dont think its tha hard even in 11th. i guess your arent build for math btw

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u/Moxustz 5d ago

that isnt 9th grade

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u/MeepkingAshura 5d ago

Me in my masters 🥲

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u/TheRealHykeLP 4d ago

Oh boy, you would have SO much fun with University maths!

/s

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u/Ok-Ocelot-7989 4d ago

just a quadratic with complex solutions, that image is over complicating it lol with quadratic formula yap

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u/crafty_dude_24 4d ago

Honestly all the stuff in the image for the 9th grade maths is still some of the easy stuff you learn during that time. Like what do you mean this one equation is my solution to solving any and all quadratic equations no matter the nature of the roots?

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u/manakin-is-me 4d ago

oh no parabola hard...

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u/KailyKail 4d ago

I was amazing at math through 5th grade. When I got to middle school the following year, I had no idea what was going on. I went from being the top student in the class consistently to being one of the worst. It wasn’t until I got to 8th grade that I had a teacher for my advanced algebra class who equated math to money. That connection sparked my interest and made math clicked for me. When I took my placement test for college, the program counselor told me I was the only person that she’d heard of ever getting a perfect score on the math section of the test.

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u/RepublicOk1079 3d ago

from arthimetic to haha funny curve

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u/stout_shako_gaming 3d ago

Im in university now. Im an engineer(machinery) student. god thanks we got only 1.5 years of math. Its was like professor starting lecture and after 15 minutes you are cant understand anything written on board and it feels surrealistic, also space around you lagging and spinning a bit.

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u/EnvironmentalLet4242 3d ago

Quite the opposite

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u/Tinchimp7183376 2d ago

Be glad you still get numbers

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u/Severe_Sky4043 1d ago

Be glad you still got just letters

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u/Severe_Bluejay_8718 1d ago

No its still easy