Nrrgh.

[sincere]

Studying for my math exam on Monday. Started out fine.

Ceased being fine.

Looking at my pitiful attempts to do any problem past the halfway point, I have to ask... "Why, Jesus?"

The greatest irony of all is that the chapter we're doing doesn't appear to cover most of the information I'm struggling with. Believe me, I've looked.

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Hmph.

[gatafairy.livejournal.com]

Sounds like ABeka's Geometry book. And any other math book, at that. It's, like, "Here's the example problem -- we'll do a few so you know what they are, but we won't explain what we've done. You didn't get it? Screw you, then!" And then the practice problems are dumb -- the first five or so are similar to the examples, but as you go along all similarities fade until you're left staring at the print on the glossy pages, going, "What the hell?"

Clearly, these people hate our guts.

Funny thing, though: I asked our pre-cal teacher why they (they, the people who created the hellish ABeka books) tell us to find angle measurements in minutes when they don't even have them as such in the teacher's key. Said she, "They just want to make your life more difficult."

Somewhat off topic, that, but if it'll make you give at least the barest hint of a smile, it'll have been worth it. ^_~

Re: Hmph.

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

XD At least she's not putting a blinder over your eyes!

Anyway, the biggest irony is that they had like a million practice problems, and if I'd had one to guide me I probably would've been able to piece it together... but not a single one of the practice problems looked like they were even remotely similar. O_o I mean, I'm not picky. Fractions or decimals or powers or whatever, I can identify the problem if it's the same kind of problem, but this... was a kind of problem that had NOT been discussed in the chapter.

I am forced to assume that it will not be on the test either. ^_~

...pray for me. *sweatdrop*