Re-learn the math I forgot from school, and learn how to do math I never learned in the past

i love to do it

I want to do maths

I went back to college for maths evening classes for a few months and then took my exam and got a C grade which was better than i got at school!! Hurrah! This means that now I can apply for my degree and am one step closer to becoming a teacher :) I was so happy I cried on the examiner, I think he was really quite scared!

HELP PLEASE… I LEFT MY MATH BOOK AT SCHOLOL

So here is my problem.
For another project I think, I need to understand this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product

particularly the bits with the matrix stuff.
My ex, “helped” me with my photopuppet rig using this type of maths. He solved some rotation/orientation problems in a moment. Things that had taken me months to get no where.

I was impressed, and since then have held a respect and love of mathematics. Unfortunately, he also was not terribly nice to me, and would not tell me what I needed to know in order to understand the building of transform and rotation matrices.

Here is a little bit where I am coming from also.
I was “home-schooled” through out my entire youth. I am no stranger to the life long quest of learning. But I am stuck on this problem. I am not afraid of the time I need to commit to learn. Months, years, whatever. Even if the outcome is of negligible use. I am ready. I just do not know where to start.

I am going to pick back up my math studies again soon. Probably in the late spring, and hope to completely my algebra lessons by mid summer:)

But after that, what comes next? Is it Trig? Is it Calc? Physics? What is the next step towards my goal of learning math?
I don’t know. And I’m in the unfamiliar position of not even knowing who to ask!

I forgot EVERYTHING…........................

Interestingly, over the past months I’ve needed to do some bits of maths here and there.
All that silly practice I repeated in France for those two months really paid off!!! Doing the exercises again and again got some numbers in my head, solidified fractions, and divisions, I can still transform algebraic expression painlessly.
I can also do simple things like add and subtract in my head. Something I could never do before!
Makes one want to learn more and more.
I am glad that I stuck to my guns and did that.

Had to transform an algebyic expression yesterday. It was amazing that I could remember how to do it! Seems I did learn something while studying math in France for 3 months!

It’s gotten me excited to continue my studies!

He is my inspiration to understand math better:

homepage.mac.com/ehgoins/

Remember Winnie from the Wonder Years? She is a math whiz!
http://www.danicamckellar.com/

We can do this..

As a way to procastinate from the mountains of schoolwork I face, I purchased a “Forgotten Algebra” workbook. It’s very soothing as a break from endless reading and other schoolwork that could, if I let it, go on forever to work through the chapter problems. Its nice to face a task with definite answers and an obvious stopping point.

I made it through Calculus in highschool, then barely attended more Calculus classes in college. I think it would be nice to continue with this series of books – Algebra, Geomentry, Trig, Calculus and then add on Statistics. It’s an odd type of therapy, but therapy non-the-less.