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Trigo-nom-etry (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was in advanced math classes from like 4th grade all the way up to AP Calc 2 my junior year. Aced all of them except trig. I just could not wrap my head around it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trig isn't that bad? It's just about relationships between angles and triangles/circles. If you learn SOH CAH TOA and what the inverses are/mean you've pretty much got it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I struggle with trig because it's a lot of memorization. The fundamentals are pretty easy, but I never remember the unit circle and I never remember all of the identities.

[–] TwilightKiddy 4 points 2 weeks ago

I only remember useful things. And I consider these useful because I did some low level graphics programmed once and had to use them in practice. Once you understand why these things exist, it becomes that much easier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm just very spatially-challenged, and I think that's where my academic understanding and actual understanding breaks down.