[TishaBuv]

Argh, I'm in business math hell! Studying for a test to advance my sales career. My eyes are burning and crossing. I keep getting the same questions wrong. I can't memorize the formulas for the life of me! Here is where learning gets tricky for me, as I suspect ADHD. Hopefully, my OCD will help me over come my inability to concentrate if I keep going over it and over it again!

This page looked useful:
How to Memorize Math and Physics Formulas: 7 Steps (with Pictures)

When I was younger, I could memorize anything so long as I didn't start the night before, or especially, an hour before the test. One week was enough but I would have to work a lot harder than that now.

I have read that it is really helpful to study right before bedtime or a nap (and studying can make you sleepy-indulge). Our REM sleep sort of helps consolidate our memories. On Thursday nights, my good friend and I would study at the library then go to the bar at 10:00 PM and reward ourselves with a drink. I recently read that alcohol right after studying likely sabotaged many of the gains I made. What the article says about use the formula to solve some simple problems over and over without looking the formula up makes good sense. What about creating your own simplified questions using the formulas (just until the formula is memorized)?

I hope your test isn't tomorrow. Good luck!

Math is my favorite subject

[TishaBuv]

The only way for me to learn it is to associate the formulas with thoughts, word games. I never got past Algebra 1 in school. Majored in anything I could do as to avoid math!

I'm so good with words and so bad with meaningless numbers!

I'm the opposite. I'm not good with words. For example, I hated history and literature. The good thing with math is that you don't need to memorize. Maybe a couple of equations, but it's also useless to test people on how well they memorize formulas. That's why some professors allow open book exams. The main idea is how to use these equations not to memorize them. It's said that Einstein was once asked what is the speed of sound, and he replied by saying I don't have to memorize these constants, because I can find them in textbooks. Numbers in themselves are meaningless, but if they represent something, mathematics can make them meaningful.

Originally Posted by Mr. Stranger

I'm the opposite. I'm not good with words. For example, I hated history and literature. The good thing with math is that you don't need to memorize. Maybe a couple of equations, but it's also useless to test people on how well they memorize formulas. That's why some professors allow open book exams. The main idea is how to use these equations not to memorize them. It's said that Einstein was once asked what is the speed of sound, and he replied by saying I don't have to memorize these constants, because I can find them in textbooks. Numbers in themselves are meaningless, but if they represent something, mathematics can make them meaningful.

Same bro!