Hardest math you ever taken

[-Apples-]

In your opinion, what was the hardest math course ever, at least of your experience? I know a couple of you would think math is too hard in general, but which one do you think is the worst? There's a lot harder maths out there than Algebra, so I would expect answers of only the courses you taken, at least middle to high school.

In my opinion, I would have to say high school Geometry. It's not necessarily the math that sucks. It's the proof tables, proving how one fact leads to another and explaining why the fact applies. To me, that's not even math. It's more likely English or something. Believe it or not, this whole post is coming from a person who already knows something from Calculus and Differential Equations. I can differentiate or integrate functions without making an error (even if I have yet to take Calculus in college), but I cannot do proof tables correctly in Geometry. Even Analytic Geometry (which is what I'm currently taking) is a hell lot easier. Granted, it's a higher level math, but there's no proof tables to be done.

Another bad one is Statistics. While it may not be as ugly as Geometry you learn in high school, it's nothing like what you expect in under-college school. The math part is fun, at least to me, but when it comes to learning about the confidence and whether the null or alternative hypothesis is true, that's when it gets difficult. Also, the formulas are hard to understand because the variables are not one fixed number like they are in Algebra or Calculus. They require having a lot of numbers to build one variable. Also, the terminology is hard to understand.

I couldn't say Calculus because I seen harder maths than Calculus math-wise. But in general, the hardest maths aren't even the hardest maths math-wise. When English and reasoning is mixed in, that's when I get stumbled.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Idk personally I think math is pretty simple because there's a lot of logical thinking and you don't really have to be creative to do well in math.

Right now I think the hardest math I've taken is pre-calculus but that's because I'm still in the class and learning it. I'm actually doing really well in the class. I want to take calculus in college, to further expand my knowledge.

 

[Oblivia]

The most advanced math course I've taken was Econometrics/Simultaneous Equations. I wouldn't necessarily call it "hard", though I suppose it was on the basis that many of the students had issues grasping the concepts and many of them ended up dropping the course. I also took Statistics 2 and went up to Calculus 3, but those were more to keep my options open than anything.

 

[forestyne]

Trigonometry made me drop out of high school.

 

[tumut]

Geometry/Alg II

I ****ing hate math so I wasn't going to bother with anything not required to get my necessary credits xd

 

[Flare]

Geometry HN is pure hell.
Wondering how Alg.2 and Pre-Calculus HN are going to be.

 

[nostalgibra]

Probability and Statistics. I was a straight A student before I had to drop out, and I got a freakin C in that class despite having a tutor and busting my butt just to pass. I think I legitimately have discalculia.

 

[Tessie]

DUDE freaking Calc. II
I don't know what the hell happened, I really enjoyed the first level of calculus, but calculus II went to a whole different level of complexity from Calc. 1, I was blown away and dropped that course because I was failing so badly not even a perfect score on the final would've saved me lol.
It's the only course that truly defeated me in college. After the professor gave the first lecture on series and I attempted the homework the next day I went to the counselor and dropped that class LOL.

Topics in Calc 2, in case called differently else where:
Arc Length
Convergent Series
Exponential Growth
Harmonic Series
Maclaurin Series .
Power Series
Radius of Convergence
Ratio Test
Surface of Revolution
Taylor Series

 

[Rizies]

I actually loved doing stats, probability and null hypothesis. One of the hardest I would say is trig with sin cos and tan.

In university I had to take like high school calculus (but slightly harder) and I struggled with that. That was my own fault though because I didn't study nor did I do the homework. High school trig however was super difficult. Even with a tutor I struggled

 

[EpicGamer12]

Calculus II, which at my uni is just integrals and their applications.

 

[Rizies]

I actually loved doing stats, probability and null hypothesis. One of the hardest I would say is trig with sin cos and tan.

In university I had to take like high school calculus (but slightly harder) and I struggled with that. That was my own fault though because I didn't study nor did I do the homework. High school trig however was super difficult. Even with a tutor I struggled

 

[LambdaDelta]

math never gave me trouble, so lol

 

[Joy]

Geometry and Pre-Calc still haunt me to this day...

 

[King Dorado]

AP Calculus BC was the hardest math class I ever took.

speaking of geometry, i won my county's math contest in geometry and the cool thing about it was that my teacher was this old dude about to retire who had never had one of his students win the county math contest before, so he was pumped.

 

[Nuclear Bingo]

I remember trying my ass off in Pre-Cal in highschool. I went to tutorials day and night. I still failed the tests. One day my teacher sat me down and suggested I take the math class they offer for dip****s. I took it

 

[Corrie]

Does every math count? Honestly I have struggled with every math class ever. I'm pretty sure any high school academic class is the hardest ever. I only took academic grade 9 and only a week of grade 10 before dropping down to applied. Then I took applied grade 11 and 12 and they were way easier.

So to answer your question, any high level high school math.

 

[aericell]

Calculus II definitely so far!! I took it last semester and what made it even worse was the amount of times my prof canceled class. I don't even know how I passed (and with a B too!) when I know for sure I couldn't have done that well on the final exam.
I'm taking Calc III right now and it is much, much easier.

 

[Soda Fox]

Calculus and Statistics. Physics is a lot of math, too, and I took college level physics in my sophomore year. I like math. My job is math. But I also like psychology and arts so I didn't pursue math too far and don't think I ever will.

 

[vel]

middle school math, honestly like those three years were the hardest bc i sucked at math. high school math is so much easier though like maybe it's just me

 

[Ichigo.]

geometry 9th grade. i'm not sure if it was hard for other people, but it was so hard for me for some reason? i think i got a C in the course. but it was also my mega angsty year so maybe that's why. multivariate statistics was a class i took in uni (grad). it was challenging but not necessarily hard for me. apparently it was hard for other people though.