Becoming good at math is easy, actually

☀️ Hi, friend! My name is Han. I graduated from Columbia University last year and I studied Math and Operations Research. In this video, I talk about why math can be very difficult and seem nonsensical at times. I share the system that I use to practice math problems in an enjoyable and effective way, and I explain how you can do the same. I understand that math can become very challenging when you don't find studying it enjoyable, so I hope this video can be motivating and helpful if you're currently struggling with math!
This video is almost a more complete and polished remake of my very first video on this channel. I’ve conducted more research on the topic and have improved my video-making skills:)

☀️ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & my story with math
1:46 My mistakes & what actually works
3:35 Key to efficient and enjoyable studying
9:07 Understand math?
10:24 Why math makes no sense sometimes
12:36 Slow brain vs fast brain

✨ Contact ✨
Instagram - @hanzhango
TikTok: @hanzhango

About Me:
🥭 How old are you? 23!
🎓 Where did you go to university? Augustana & Columbia University!
🤠 Where do you live? Texas

Some of the links above are affiliate links from which I receive a small commission fee.😄

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[TheLucanicLord]

What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.

[AsusMemopad-uslk]

It was David Hilbert who famously said nobody ever understands math you just get used to it. He was a top mathematician/ professor in the early twentieth century.

[RihamAhamed]

i learned three things in this whole 15minutes,

1. don't try to solve a problem if you can't think of an approach before starting.
2. Keep yourself familiar with the problem like keep practicing until you automatically solve the problem before thinking of any approach(1st one), as you do basic calculations.
3. if you want to believe and stay confident and motivated you need to first start from the basics.
me if i missed anything. Thank You!

[ilonaksulistya]

the worst part is that i would constantly be tempted to look at the answer key which obviously didn't help 💀 good luck in maths, everyone!

[Abcdghii]

Honestly didn't need the advice but just the reassurance and comfort of knowing I'm not stupid 😭

[Whoelsebutjones]

This is crazy.. I stayed up all night doing math problems, just got done and decided to hop on yt before I go to bed only to see this as my first recommended video. It is 7:41am right now for context lol

[leslie]

as someone who is considered good at math, I agree. I literally do not understand how I know what to do or why, I just know what to do next. the more I focus on why I know what comes next, the more I confuse myself. it’s actually really difficult for me to explain math to someone because i start confusing myself when they ask questions like “how” or “why”

[brownie_]

My teacher had convinced me that nothing could improve my chronic mathophobia. But thank god youtube had faith in me and recommended this. Thanks Han ❤

[mushroom]

I spend HOURS studying math, and a week later I can't remember anything I understood just a moment ago. I have developed my technique for learning by looking up the answer to an equation, writing it down, and then thinking HOW to get to that number. I am not sure, however, that this is an effective technique.
Math is super frustrating for me, to this point when I'm literally crying over simple things. I always have to write down every number, while my friends just calculated them in their heads, which is really depressing.
Thank you for help! I'm for sure gonna try everything you said in your video.

[syedanaushabinzakirkhanp]

This is so relatable. I'm bad at math. But I've managed to get a bachelor's in physics and the technique you're talking about of initially giving up on the hard problems and then walking through its solution really works like a charm! I did that significantly and my math improved quite a lot.

[Pegasus]

To be brutally honest with you might just be the most useful video i have watched in a while i just knew math was this way but did not accept the reality of it. However when someone else feels the same about it, it just shows that its you who has been limiting yourself. So thank you 🙏🏻

[lucasrinaldi]

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - Von Neumann.

[kevinkasp]

Here’s how my son got good at math: Practice, practice, practice.
I bought him an older edition of his calculus textbook because I could also buy the complete teacher’s solution manual. He didn’t really use it during the first semester. Consequently when second semester began he didn’t have confidence about his first semester knowledge.
So my son proceeded do Calc I all over again by doing every problem in the book.
At first he would get most of them wrong. But by having the step-by-step solution to every problem he soon discovered that some of the concepts had had wrong and that he had a tendency to make the same “mental” errors such as not paying close attention to negative signs.
But the bonus learning thing for him was by seeing the methods professional mathematicians used step-by-step, it taught him how to employ the same patterns of problem solving. In just one semester (although it required two hours every day for the entire semester) he taught himself how to be good at math.
Now people think he’s a kind of math genius. Calc II and III and differential equations were easy for him.

[lenx]

YES!!!! This is what I tell everyone. Just practice and you’ll be okay

[summertime_magic]

This video is so funny to me because I used every tip(+ a lil bit more) in this video to study when I was in my senior year of high school, but somehow I disregarded or forgot about them once I got to university. Now, as I'm self-learning code and math for computer science, I'm looking for ways to study efficiently and stumbled upon this video and as I am listening i realized, wait a minute, this sounds familiar. Damn. Thank you for this—I don't think I would have remembered these tips without your video.

[PabloRuiz-xozn]

Honestly, thank you for this! I'm a middle school math teacher getting ready for my middle school kids to come in and learn math! I will show them this video during our orientation next week. Mostly because you clearly are really good at math if you graduated from Columbia with a math degree. But you actually had the SAME STRUGGLES that my gen ed and SpEd kids have. So seeing YOU, of all people, having the same problems they encounter with math will be gold. Thank you for this marvelous content!!!! Also they'll relate to the fork/mic thing you have going on there. It humanizes you! ;)

[meinbherpieg]

Math is the kind of field that literally rewards people for not understanding what they're doing but for knowing what the next rule is.

[mbunds]

You have no idea how valuable this presentation was for me. This perspective changed everything!

[abhinandandas]

0:40 Just started watching the video, TOTALLY RELATABLE 💀, my teacher rather makes fun of me lmao

[johnbaxter]

Came for the math, stayed for the microphone on the fork