Math isn't that difficult. I like it because the rules are the rules and there are no exception. Your grade doesn't depend upon a teacher's mood, or whether or not they like you, or who the teacher's pet is in the class. There is one answer. You get it right or you get it wrong. Really clearly black and white.
Numbers always behave in exactly the same way. Always. That makes it easy to learn what they are going to do.
There is a trick though. You must learn each bit of information as it comes along. You can't learn the next step until you know this one. That means you can't leave it until the end of the semester and think you can get by the test by cramming the night before. So take a few minutes each night and learn that day's lesson.
By the way, I used trigonometry just a few weeks ago. I needed to know how wide a piece of greenhouse poly I needed to cover a new high tunnel for growing veggies. The high tunnel has a peaked ridge, not round. Round top would have used geometry to figure out, but would have been harder to build. Poly arrived in just the right size and fits perfectly.
I will use trigonometry again in the spring to learn how tall my cherry tree is, so I can build a bird proof frame around it so I can actually have a few cherries for myself.
Math skills actually get used. Not to mention, if you can do math, the jobs that require math are the ones that pay the good salaries.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. Right there. That's everything you need to know to build a space ship that can fly to Alpha Centauri. You just need to learn the tricks that make those numbers jump through the hoops.
