Math: Do you prefer Algebra or Geometry?

[Bush]

I've tried several times to write a thought-out response to this, and my inclination is to say 'geometry,' but I can't help but see math in a way that the disciplines are all combined anyway and so they're hard to tease out. At some point, it's all just 'math.'

But algebra seems a lot more like busywork to me, a thing you have to do in order to get an answer. It's peeling the stupid potatoes so you can eventually make Potato Gratin.

I have a sphere, which is probably a geometric shape. How do you get the volume of this sphere? That's easy; there's a formula for it. But where does that formula come from? Well, [basic principles mucked around with by calculus, which inevitably boils down to algebra anyway].


Which was more fun as a kid: playing with toys in the real world and imagining what you can do with them and how they would interact, or writing a bunch of sentences until you reach some final statement that says that one thing is equal to some other thing?

 

[Doomkid]

geometry BY FAR

 

[five sounds]

Algebra for sure. Proofs were my mortal enemy. I'm much better jumping into a complex algebra problem and mathing my way out.

 

[Tellenbach]

Geometry was fun and challenging. I have a good memory so remembering which theorem or corollary to use in the proofs was not a problem. I didn't like doing word problems because merely reading the damn word problem hurt my brain.

 

[Ma_Xie_Er]

If we're talking high school, then geometry is better than algebra.

Beyond high school, I'd say modern algebra, a.k.a. abstract algebra, is way more fun.

 

[Dreamer]

I best understand new concepts when I can visualize them in my head, so that usually means I suck at most any sort of math class since numbers alone have no meaning to me. I really enjoyed my physics classes while going to architecture school, and I think because physics is grounded in reality like forces and what not, I can visualize what's happening in the problem and better understand what's being asked, and what variables I need to solve for.

But to answer your question, neither. Though, Trig was fun...

 

[SD45T-2]

I avoid math like the plague.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

Geometry was my first C, so algebra.

 

[TopCatLSD]

Neither, they both fuckin suck.

 

[Fluffywolf]

In school I prefered geometry. Straight up algebra often seemed to lack real world applications in my mind (the more advanced stuff that is). At least compared to geometry.

Later on in my twenties I came to appreciate algebra a bit more though.

 

[angelgirl]

I loved maths but we used to study algebra and geometry with the same maths teacher so I appreciated both branches equally