How Many Hours a Week Should I Study for My Math Classes?

How many hours a week should I study for my math classes?

In this video I go over how many hours a week you should study for your math classes. I talk about my personal experience as an example. Everybody is different and the amount of time will vary.

How many hours a week do you study?

Please leave any comments or questions in the comment section below. Thank you:)

[OleJoe]

I totally agree with your assessment. To add to it, when I was in graduate school working on my master's in Math, the most time I would spend on an exercise or proof for homework was 4 hours. If I couldn't solve the problem in 4 hours that was it. I did what I could and moved on. Sometimes in the class the professor would say something like, "Oh, by the way, on problem #3, f'(x) is suppose to be continuous in the proof." "Left that out, sorry." Or there was a typo or something.

[pinklady]

3 - 5 hours each day, depending how much free time I can steal for studying. Sunday is always my lazy day and I watch tutorials in the quiet corners of cafés and restaurants, of course with my headphones on. I am a victim of habit.

[Gk]

I only study for my math classes honestly lol. I also bought math books to learn more and I put hours of work into those too.

[devondevon]

Spend a lot of time to know the concept . Remember that many of the mathematicians behind these books spend years doing research on a single topic and writing proofs. So you have to spend time to know the materials as Peter Lynch wrote . 'In science old theories fade away and are replaced by new ones... Math is different a theorem once proved remains valid forever. ('The vastness of mathematics: No one knows it all, Irish Times) . He wrote ' the best one can achieve is general understanding and appreciation of the main branches and expertise in one or two areas'. This is because math has become so vast unlike the other science, according to him.

[marcomejia]

When I was in UG studying math, we had the 25-35 hours a week rule by the department. But many students like myself will study way more than that.

[mrheng]

I was in my professor's office hours all the time doing HW and asking questions when I need help. Basically, I was kicking it with my professor. Putting in the hours definitely paid off since Abstract Algebra was rough!!! So was Number Theory!!! I had to take Number Theory TWICE!!! I got a D the first time and was a shy of an A the second time around. The first time I took it, I loaded myself with way too many capstone math classes, but I never gave up and take a withdraw. I kept going to class and took all the tests. Why? Because, I'm gonna have to take it again anyway. Might as well go all the way and redo it the second time around knowing exactly what to expect. Winners don't quit! :)

[AloneMaru]

You really remind me of Sal Khan from Khan Academy! You love teaching and it shows in your videos! Thank you for the helpful advice!

[prateek]

Hey I am the first one to watch your video🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗.Love you sir, you are the best

[devondevon]

Study until you are able to work the problems in your text (and even problems from another text such as one at the library, you might look at to find more problems to solve) since you will be tested on similar problems and/or the same problems. If you are pressed for time, don't spend too much time on problems you can do, instead spend time on the problems usually at the end of the exercise as problems 30 to 50 are usually more difficult than problems 1-20 (from a exercise with 50 problems). Your goal is to be able to solve all 50 problems or all the problems-home work and non-work homework since any of those problems could be on the test. This, however ' doesn't mean you have to be able to solve all of them to do well or get an A.

[liviu]

I'm doing a business Btec, I study math in all my breaks and lunches on every friday on known concepts(about 3 hours at most, then I go at home and for about 2 hours i do mathematical research( or try to discover something new), I plan to do this for at least 10 years.

[bengtbengt]

I think of my studies as a full time job (even though I also work part time being a teacher assistant for first year students; I'm personally on my fourth year doing my Master). On week days, I study about 8-10 hours every day, maybe 11-12 hours the days before the final exam. On weekends, it's usually about 3-5 hours a day.

[Primitive_Code]

This is a great topic to discuss for students such as myself. I like your advice about # of credits * 5 is what you should study weekly. I'd also like to add that the studying needs to be serious and critical. This is my biggest problem I think I've had in college where I just finished my associates in math but I don't know how to study yet. I spend more than 5 hours a day and at least 30 hours a week usually to study only for a four credit hour class (discrete) but because I'm mostly casually going over the material it doesn't really click to me, I usually shut down or get brain fried when I don't understand something and I feel like this will be a major problem going forward in the degree and I'm not really sure what to do about it.

[wycked]

I used to average 2 to 3 hours a day nothing crazy, but for 7 to 10 days prior to a week of a testing I'd study at least 10 hours a day, often only sleeping a few hours each night, still only finished with a GPA in the high 2s 😅. After taking advanced calc and barely getting out alive I signed up for Abstract algebra as an elective not knowing what it was. I had so much trouble navigating all of the proofs I used to memorize countless pages worth of proofs hoping I'd get lucky and one of them would be on the exam.

[christopherdupont]

It's influenced by multiple factors such as what subject, how knowledgeable you are, how fast you learn that subject, and the type of course load that specific instructor gives. I generally find about 2.5 hours +/- an hour for non-math-related classes (depending on previously mentioned variables and upcoming quizzes/tests/projects) For math classes I normally average about 4.5-5 hours of homework and study per credit hour a week. I have taken some math classes like stats where it was probably only 3hrs/semester hour and I had a trig instructor that gave like 30 hours worth of homework every week, which is a crazy course load especially when it's only 3 semester hours and you have a full schedule of other classes) I probably spent about 12-13 hours/wk per semester hr outside classes for that course, so it was a good 35-40 hours per week for a 3-semester- hour course. Honestly, most semesters with like a 4-semester hr math class and usually an average of 9 or so semester hours in other subjects I usually spent as much time on my one math course as I did on the other 3 courses. My major is electrical engineering so it's not like I am inept at math, it just takes a lot of time remembering formulas/theorems, understanding the materials since it's all abstract, working through the problems, and connecting ideas, studying. College-level math classes move pretty rapidly so a lot of the time by the time I figured out whatever it was we were working on we would already be doing something different so I had to make sure I spent a little time each week just going back over whatever we covered in the 2-3 previous weeks so that I new that I understood it and letting it have some time to commit to my memory otherwise I found if I didn't by the time the test came around I didn't remember have the stuff we did in the first sections covered by that test. The challenging nature of mathematics is pretty much the foundation of my love/hate relationship with it....

[gluonone]

College is long ago for me, and I did graduate with a degree in physics. But I had horrible study habits for the most part. Didn't study a lot, or at all...one time I crammed 5 weeks of chemistry material in my head the day before the final. wish I could go back and have been a better student (more structured). It sucks knowing that you didn't give your all for something important.

[alexkhan]

People here are talking about hours per week, while I am thinking of hours per semester. 😶 Going to change that this semester and make it a few hours per week. Abstract Algebra II is fine now, but Topology I & II and Real Analysis I & II next year is going to be interesting.

[stuffz]

Honestly that’s about true for my diff eq class, but I’m taking it over the summer

[atomayplay]

I’m no expert in Math, but my best advice in studying anything is study until you know enough information to teach someone else about the topic you’re studying.

[quack]

Me eating nearly twice as much for homework: "yea I got this down to pat"

[TR-cmft]

Total cred hours per week is 18 for ug first semester.
Then I should study 90 hours a week?😨😵