Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:31:53 UTC No. 16582364

Practice more? Also for polynomials the term with the highest exponent will dominate the equation the closer to infinity you go.

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:53:45 UTC No. 16582411

>>16582223
And why do I have the reverse problem?

Anonymous at Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:24:34 UTC No. 16582791

Math word problems are literally garbage that has no equivalent in the real world.

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:51:05 UTC No. 16583404

>>16582364
I can't do word problems unless it's like elementary level yet somehow I'm able to do calculus equations, and I don't know how to graph besides x and y table values
>>16582411
Nigger just solve the equations it's literally the easiest thing
>>16582791
I agree but graphing and word problems are going to be on my exam in a few weeks and I fucking hate that shit

Anonymous at Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:21:42 UTC No. 16583417

>>16583404
I think it's in dealing with abstraction. Working within equations is one level of abstraction, word problems and graphing are two different layers of abstraction, so they require you to translate the problem between them.
I, with the reverse problem, jump between layers of abstraction easily, so I see things in say, the graph of a function, or a word problem (if it's imaginable, like a tank of water draining) and apply it to equations. It compensates for me being too lazy and scatterbrained to memorise algebraic procedures. In highschool physics the equations were often harder to remember than it was to derive them anew every time, so I mostly made them up as I went along. It doesn't work on more complicated things, but even there you can use it to help you modify them or such, or help to re-express them, by keeping what they represent in mind. I struggle to remember algebraic steps to a procedure, because many don't have meaningful interpretations until you've finished and got the result.
For a lot of equations where the answer is a +/- type thing, I usually didn't bother which way round I put the terms, I'd just flip the answer to whichever made sense when I finished.
You, I suspect, don't like shifting between layers of abstraction, and so got good at dealing with the one layer of equations, with everything else just an obtuse way of presenting info, which is then to be converted and dealt with as equations.