I want to learn math!

[zmo]

Hello everyone, I'm 22 years old and I'm interested in learning mathematics. The problem is that I've not done any math in a while. I used to be pretty good at it when I was a kid up to 7th grade, then I changed schools to an english speaking school (spanish is my first language). Since my english wasn't really good at the time, I struggled a lot, started getting bad grades and that snowballed into me not caring about math anymore since I found it hard at the time. Eventually, I drifted completely from it getting just the necessary grades to finish high school. After high school, I studied a communications major for a while, then changed majors to system engineering and dropped out of that major since I didn't like it at all.

Now a days I'm actually doing what I like, which is electronic music production and am trying to get into a college on the states which is the very best at teaching what I love to do; however, the major I'm pursuing is called electronic production and design and implicates being well versed in math.

Even though I may have drifted from math, I admire people who are really capable and knowledgeable at math and think that math is really useful for a lot of things. I wanna get back into it, be good at math, although I must say that at the moment I suck at it really badly. Where should I start? Anyone with a similar experience (relearning math as an adult) care to share something?

[ESFP]

The college near me had the best catch-up math classes. If you can find something like that, you'll have a blast.

[Arcanist]

Try this resource.

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[Kisai]

Before I went back to community college, I hadn't touched mathematics for ten years and I was a bit worried. The year before, I bought a second-hand precalc/trig textbook and went through all the problems I could. Going through the problems at my own pace gave me a lot of confidence that I was going to do well.

[rufsketch1]

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That got me from not knowing algebra to being fairly well versed in multiple sorts of calculus in about 4 months.



Before I went back to community college, I hadn't touched mathematics for ten years and I was a bit worried. The year before, I bought a second-hand precalc/trig textbook and went through all the problems I could. Going through the problems at my own pace gave me a lot of confidence that I was going to do well.

But then he still failed. :-P

[ApostateAbe]

You should learn exactly what your college requires in terms of math. If they require college courses, then you'll need to take them. If they require good test scores on your SAT or whatever, then I am thinking maybe you can get yourself a few cheap outdated math textbooks relevant to your current skill level and beyond and do practice problems. I learned much quicker and easier when I was studying math on my own than when I was taking college courses on mathematics.

[floramacivor]

This is also a nice resource - free math and science video tutorials with a likeable guy.
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[Nemesis]

This is also a nice resource - free math and science video tutorials with a likeable guy.
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Yeah, I can vouch for this as well. I've always been pretty awful at math due to a lot of crappy teaching during school. I used this site for months to write the math componant for the GRE. Worked like a charm.

[Axion004]

I'm considering reading the principles of mathematics written by Newton. 95% serious. I have never had a problem with Math and it has been a good tool for my uber logical thinking. I wish I took more Math in college beyond the Calculus courses but I can teach myself anyway.