I'm in my second-to-last semester before I get my AS and I had to pick another math to take other than statistics. I fucking love probability and statistics. So I picked algebra, because my other choices were trigonometry or calculus, which... no. I have zero problems with super basic algebra and the kind of mental math you need to do all the time when you handle a lot of money, but I know that higher math is kind of beyond me. Anyway the only course I could get into without screwing my graduation plans to hell is a completely online course where you teach yourself from the book, and I 100% am so fucking lost. We just finished a section on dividing polynomial equations by each other using synthetic division, and I just... what. I need someone to do the math problem in front of me, step by step, painstakingly explaining each one, before I get how to do it. Once I get it, I get it! Except for how I am constantly mixing up my decimal places and negative signs, which, I know, just means I need to pay more attention, but... ADHD is a thing. It doesn't help that this is summer semester and I'm trying to keep on top of the workload for my Anatomy/Physiology II course (fun, but demanding, and there is SO MUCH SHIT TO LEARN) and so math kind of... takes a back burner. Anyone have any resources for this? It's just a basic college algebra course.
I haven't done math a lot lately, but if you post some practice problems, maybe I or someone else could go through them step by step for you?
Hey, @sirsparklepants, how's it going? Do you still need help? If you give us a clue as to which online course it is and/or the book then maybe some help will mysteriously arrive! So says ex-teacher (maths & IT).
We just finished a chapter on logarithms, which was way more comprehensible to me, but now the chapter we're on is Systems of Equations which has gone right back into incomprehensible territory. The course is just a basic college algebra at my community college - the book is College Algebra 3e by Ratti and McWaters. e: this last section is a combined chapter actually, we're only doing like two sections on systems. the other three are on matrices. Also this is sort of self-paced so as long as I get my stuff done in the next two weeks I'm good.
