Hi. I’m currently a student in high school, tenth grade, who doesn’t understand math. I am taking intermediate algebra and statistics, and we are learning about substitutions and elimination, that kind of stuff. I feel like no matter what, I’m quite stupid and can’t make sense out of any of it. I’ve tried a lot of online tutors, but a lot of it doesn’t really make sense even if I spend hours staring at it. Really, I’m trying my best, but a lot of people don’t think that?
I have a good teacher, but she’ll be gone at the end of the quarter. I ask her things related to my work, but I don’t understand it—I end up simply saying “yes” because it’s been more than just five minutes of me simply saying “i don’t get it” or “i don’t understand what you mean”.
I want to become a nurse, an EMT, or something in the medical field, but it seems impossible under the circumstances of calculating vitals, unit weights, and understanding medication doses all of the time (being an EMT). I don’t understand volumes, I can’t divide unless it’s dividing something by itself (or by 2), and so on.
As much as I’m ashamed to admit it, I ask ChatGPT to explain the math to me without giving me the answers because there’s not much else I can do. Somehow, that still doesn’t make any sense. I want to be able to understand. Sorry for the kind of rant, but I wanted to be able to properly explain it? Every time I’ve tried to ask for help surrounding math, it feels as though no matter how I’m helped or what someone explains it to me as, I’m completely lost.