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Old Feb 21, 2015, 03:45 PM
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Not sure about your semester choices, but I recommend settling on a reputable place to catch up, such as Khan Academy. There are a lot of well-meaning people out there who are just going to make it worse with too many different explanations with too many problems. If you're not moving fast enough, a tutor might be in order.

I know the feeling, though. I hated math until I started self-study after high school. My teachers never taught it to me as an approach to problems and a way of understanding things in the world, so I never appreciated it and saw it as some strange, unexplainable set of procedures that was always explained in very confusing ways. Wikipedia articles on math theory and history did more for my love of the subject than a dozen years of schooling...

It's one of the fairest things in the world, though. Five plus five is never going to equal oranges, and you can count on there being an answer with a logical path towards it. I found it helped to think of it as just a big, man-made system of explaining the world around us and recreating results.
Thanks for this!
CrystalSteph