I work as a Customer Laison Complaints Case Officer at a major insurance company, where I have worked for 3 years. I left school when I was 17, as I had some very bad experiences at school and wanted to see what the real world had to offer.
I now live with my boyfriend of 3 years and spend my spare time reading, writing, socialising with friends or just watching some TV.
Times are still hard and I'm trying to cope with various health problems on a daily basis but I'm working my way through things and really want to stop it from getting me down.
I dream of some day going to America and watching a real baseball game (we don't have that at all in the UK) and perhaps finding a job I find creatively fulfilling. Until then, I'm happy trying to be me and making the best of what I have.
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i hate math...me and math will never understand each other...i always get c's on my report card...i was in tutoring but that did'nt help much....my parents give me a hard time on it all the time..and all my friends are really good at it...my parents are always saying look at my friends there doing perfect in it...wat do i do??? (link)
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I do actually know exactly how you feel. I did my exams and got a 4. Not 4%. That was the number of marks I actually got on the whole maths exam. Thankfully that was a mock but it was enough to shake me. My Dad is a teacher and tried numerous times to teach me to do maths but I could never get it and we would have blazing rows over it.
Unfortunately, I can only suggest to you the same methods I took. They managed to bump me up to a D grade but I think maths is one of those things for some people that you just cannot 'get'.
SO....first you need to find a way to make your mind relax. If you're anything like me, you see a sum and your brain puts up this huge mental block and you can't get past it. If you can try to relax it will help to get rid of that block a little. So try rewarding yourself with a piece of chocolate or something else whenever you finish a sum, whether you get it right or wrong. Then you shouldn't see it as so bad when you're faced with one.
Next, the best thing I did was get the help of a different maths teacher. I was learning *nothing* from my own teacher but my sister said her teacher was great. So my Mum and I went to him and made a deal. He took me for an hour or so after school every Thursday for a little money. He taught me right up from the basics to the level I needed for my exams and it is only because of him I got a D, rather than an F.
The most important thing is that you need to make sure you have your basics. I expect you have the same problem I did, where I wasn't taught the basics properly and because of that, anything that followed went right over my head. If you can find a lower level maths book (even if it is a few years below your level - you have to start soewhere) and then start working your way through it, things might just start to fall into place.
Try to relax about this. If you keep saying you hate it, it will make it more difficult for you to cope with it. Believe me, I know!! So stop saying you hate it and instead just say that you aren't as good as you could be but you are working on it.
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