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[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What's wrong with probability? I found it once of the easier areas to learn, it's just basic maths with different names.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

In our school in Germany there was an observation: students who do well in math usually have somewhat worse grades in statistics. While students who were bad at math often did better in statistics.

In grade 12 and 13 it went like algebra, statistics, geometry, geometry (per semester). Basically, you either got A B+ A A, or D B- D D.

Writing this down I realize they should absolutely make a statistical analysis on these results.

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it's any consolation, I suck at trigonometry!

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What math education do you have ? (No judgement whatsoever)

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Up to GCSE advanced maths, if that means anything to you.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

It was the same for me, both in school and when studying CS. It's almost as if the difficulty of learning topics is different for everyone.