The math study tip they are NOT telling you - Ivy League math major

Thank you so much for all the nice comments and love!! 💕 So happy to hear it was helpful :)
Sorry for the audio problem. This is my first video and for sure I am going to fix it for the future. But thanks to all the right ears that loved the video✌️

I WILL REDO THIS COMMENT later cuz IT’s messy cuz I’m voice typing:
Literally, I’m doing pre-calculus right now and when I really look at it, it’s really not that hard like to understand and do but the way my teacher teaches it makes it hard in the way. Like he kind of tries to like make us do the work, even before he really teaches it, and stuff like that to prepare us for college or whatever. But like it’ll be like one day before the test and I’ll feel confident and then all of a sudden I’m studying and I just found out a rule that I never knew before to use a formula and I feel like I feel dumb because I feel like I’m missing pieces of the puzzle I thought I was placing correctly. So I feel dumb because I feel like I’m paying attention during class but suddenly I’m hearing about something I swear I never heard before. So then I question if I’m even paying attention in the class because I swear he never mentioned a certain way to do something. He says se should leave class understanding it but seriously sometimes it’s just not EXPLAINED he doesn’t explain things but I know if he did explain it like a normal teacher would that the class wouldn’t even be that hard so now I’m just confused about if my subjects are even that hard in general.. so it’s just hard and he’s so oddly strict like most of the others r chill but I’m just gonna have to fight through it I guess.

Nahh how am i supposed to understand math i didn't even know what algebra is😭
(It's my fault for not paying attention in math lessons when i was in the middle school 😭)

Hope I can see ya in Boston wkwkwkwkwkw, the perfection of trias politica? ❤

Am watching this instead of studying to my exam 😍

Is it just me or is the audio only coming from the right side

I would have loved to view the video but the audio chased me away. Doesn’t anybody view their content BEFORE they post?

What’s with the audio? Jeez

Thank you so much. Now I am so much confident at math than I was before. Lots of love from India❤

My issue with math is that a lot of people just want us to cram everything without any explanation and logic, im the “the asking too much questions ” type of person and maybe sometimes im just dumb not grasping anything, when ever i question what happened in this step or how did you get here i get, didn’t you study math in high school?

As a former math tutor and former math major myself, I think your tip is the right way to go about it.

I personally have always been thinking like this. For most problems I try to build a mental map of the solution, so that I have an idea of what I need. The thing is, I find it hard to do sometimes. So instead, I take it step by step. I work my way backwards from what I want to find, step by step, and in doing so I identify the things I need to find, and then I can work on it, one step at a time. E.g, find the critical points: critical points are when the derivative is 0 --> find when the derivative is zero to solve my problem---> I need the derivative to find when the derivative is zero ---> my problem is now reduced to: find the derivative ---> Differentiate the function and obtain its derivative. At this point I can stop regressing and I can solve the problem by running my map backwards. So by working backwards, I've reduced the problem to a previously solved case.

I've also found that, when tutoring, many students think of math as a recipe book, where you have a list of problem types, and a set of algorithms to solve them, and you just run these algorithms. Because they've never really been taught how to do that, they never question why the algorithms work, or worse yet, if they do, they quickly realize that there are many cracks in what they know, and they brush it under the carpet, thinking that math is an inconsistent mess that they'll never really understand and that they should just apply the god-given rules blindly. Not even engineers can get away with this kind of thinking in high school although I guess engineers and physicists do get away with this in college and the professional world. Math is a bold, beautiful field that can pride itself on probably being the only human endeavor to be 100% consistent. Students can and should be as nitpicky as possible: some guy, probably Cauchy, already thought of the logical fallacy and patched it up. But in this way, by mapping out a solution beforehand, or by going step by step backwards. you develop a logic. Now you should no longer view math as cookbook recipes, but rather as a logical entity, because in your mind, you understand the logical path from point A to B, the one that constructs this so called algorithm.

انا هنا لاني جبت 11/20 في الرياضيات و بجدية عنجي مشكلة في معرفة طريقة حل المسائل
المشكله ان اهلي يقدرون يشوفون كل درجاتي و غياباتي حقي على النظام

The sound is so awful, sorry I watched 5 mins but I wish it was fixed.

"my name is han"

.. HAM POINEAPPEH BUGAH?

My earphones are not good 😂

men never give up on some thing. but math. throow it throow it!!!!

I was so good at math until 7th grade with a new teacher he’s an amazing teacher but I don’t learn the way he teaches and now I suck at math.

Bold of you to assume that I understand the answer key

Much love from Zambia

Good day Han! Thank you for the tips. I’m currently struggling to fully understand the concepts in my college algebra class. I’m going to give these tips a try. Thank you for sharing!

You are soooo kawahi sanooooooooo

The video is Amazing ! What i really loved is that you've perfectly said how i feel about math, i Saw myself in this description
Your method is amazing, i have to do it because you just cannot know everything from begining or figure it out at some point you just have to understand the answer key !

Could u pls except talking abu relationships beween u and ur teacher tell us hacks ganna be more usefull if u cut useless infos

I feel like I have an unhealthy relationship with math. Like I’m stuck in an unhappy marriage. No matter what I do, the answer is close but still wrong. :/

The first few mins of the video where u explained that you were bad at maths and now its your favourite it made me cry im sobbing right now because i used to enjoy doing maths but idk what happened but in 2022 all of a sudden im bad at it and I don’t enjoy it anymore i failed 3 times in maths where i used to get 100/100 back in 2021 :(

funny enough, I already studied like that because I always looked at the answer and walking steps backwards until i understood the concept, before even attempting to solve the equation outright, it always felt like cheating and like I didn't actually accomplish anything. So i started avoiding my math homework until it got to the point where i missed so much information, that understanding anything now is frustrating and exhausting.

I'm now a junior so I'm stressed about mathematics. This video kind of changed my perspective of math and I'm so grateful for that. Tysm Han❤️

Your explaining my feelings

I am literally relearning math from scratch at 22 it’s never too late!

Won't you just memorize the answer key and get stuck in a different question

Why am I bad at math? Sorry, sweetheart, but I was never bad at math.

I had a friend at school. He was just as bad as i was at maths and stuffs, but when we were in grade 8 he started to excell ni maths and there was no going back. I was still a failure i even dont know how i passed all those exam. Im still weak at it. Going to start engineering this january and was preparing myself for that. I still dont know how will i face maths in my bachelors hehe.

Just not spending enough time on doing exercises in math and science, kids are forced to waste so much time on studying garbage like social studies that are useless bs

I love your content @hanzhango ❤😊

20 question are not rally so much cause my teacher actually tells me to do 3to 4 exercises daily i likes it so much thanks

Salute to all cultured man who are looking at two big zeros...

your heaven sent

The only thing that I hate about Maths are the exams like Maths is one of my few favourite subjects and in class I am doing all the exercises with no problems but when the exam comes I don’t know anything anymore. That is why I got a four and not a one:( ( which is the best grade u could get in Germany)

Great video! Thanks!

Math is not difficult if you are good with solving problems. You will need a lot of practice and memorization of formulations. You can advance on your own by just reading the math textbook. This is how I learned because I couldn’t make to math class lessons in the morning because of work and staying up late playing videos games. I only show up 5-10 minutes for home work, quiz and test days. If anyone is in the same situation as me. You can still pass. It feels really good to self taught and solve those problems on your own. Good luck

Could not agree more. Living proof here. Thanks for sharing.

Hey :) I loved you video but all the practice questions my university give me don't have answers so I try to see if internet can verify but it doesn't always work. My final's next week (8 january) so do you have any idea as how to work math like that please ? Thank you !

I don't like the idea of just giving up while solving math problems. I think it's better to normalise getting stuck and give your brain some time to think hard, even if your answer is wrong. This way you train your brain to think critically on such a problem. It's similar to lifting weights. Mathematicians or entrepreneurs don't solve their problems by looking on their answer sheet right? They think hard and of course it would take weeks, even months at first. But as you get used to think hard, your problem solving skill will develop and you solve problem faster. Intead of just giving up, think about what concepts you haven't familiar on a problem, analyze it, search for explanations on the internet. If you can't find any possibilities to solve it, that's when you can go to see the answer and learn it.

But how to sovle a difficult problem without answer key?🧐🧐

YOU ARE SO PRETTY 🩵😛

P.O.V... You are a lefty.... Same like me 😂

Math was like a Boogie Man to me growing up.
I couldn't grasp the formulas with strange usually letters or other symbols. Calculus concepts finally made sense because of the realization of infinitely tiny measurements or quantities which is best described in automotive piston to cylinder wall measurement which is the limit. I'm a visual person.

nice video. but
love that thumbnail