How do you study for Algebra ??

Are you currently enrolled in classes somewhere? Most colleges have tutoring available to students, some even have online tutoring. I don't know if you have to be currently enrolled in a math class to utilize the services, but it may be a resource you would benefit from if it's available to you. I know it's helped me through a couple of things that I just didn't get in the algebra class I'm currently taking (7 years after my last math class, which was calculus).

Have you googled "free online algebra help" or something to that effect? There are lots of sites out there that have free tutoring and lesson plans, worksheets, etc. I know purplemath.com, algebrahelp.com, and algebra.com are some that have been recommended to me.

I know how you feel about "knowing it" but just not remembering it! It's pretty frustrating to me that I got an A in college calculus so long ago and I know I am smart enough to get it, but I have trouble with some of the most basic things in this class! I am probably going to freak out when I get time to take my stat pre-req! I also know what you're saying about your husband - my Dad is a freakin' math whiz, and I cannot ask him for help with any of my problems because the way he explains things (quickly and simplified versions of methods) confuses me even more! I need it to be broken down, step by step until I am comfortable with it!

Basically, all I can say is just practice, practice, practice to get the methods down, memorize your equations, and it will all start coming back to you! Is there anything specific you are having trouble with? I may be able to give you info from my text book if it's something we've gone over..... I wish you the best of luck!

Ugh I hate math too!! I find that the best way to study math, especially algebra, is just to do problems over and over and over again until you get it. Repetition is really the only way to understand math. Soon you'll start to see patterns. Good luck to you, I'm sure with persistence you will do great.

thank you for the help...I'm afraid that it's to late to enroll in any classes right now. Not with the teas being a little over 2 weeks away. I guess the only problems that I am really having is memorizing the formulas and operations. I just wish there were a simpler way to memorize them.

I have been going to numerous algebra sites and printing up worksheets and some of them I can get and sometimes my mind just freezes up. I don't know why. I think it might be a test taking thing from way back in high school where I would freeze with fractions. (teachers back then didn't see algebra as a necessity for real life. My brother was the honor student who took all those honor classes and back then you had to be an honor student to take algebra or chemistry).

I will probably check out purplemath and the other sites and see what help I can get from it. My dh thinks I should take a break for a couple days cause I'm not cramming for a test or anything.

I don't know if it will be of any help, but just remember all of algebra is based on one thing: equilibrium -- whatever you do to one side of the equation, you have to do to the other side to keep the equation valid, and you can always substitute equal expressions anywhere in an equation to keep it valid. Try not to dwell so much on memorizing things, so much as understanding how what you are looking at is an expression of the above basic fact.

I don't know why, but math, at least up to calculus, has always come easily to me. I also was attracted to chemistry, which is based on the fact that all systems try to reach a minimal energy state, and that matter/energy is always conserved and never lost. Much of Chemistry is very mathematical.

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i work hardest at math, and find learning the rules is what helps me best . . . memorize a rule then do loads of problems . . . memorize another rule . . . then more problems.