“Nah, I’m not good at math & stuff like that”! Well, you are pretty young to turn away from an area that holds so much promise. My advice, give it a shot. It may be that the turn-off comes from the needed precision and discipline. It’s so very different from that needed in the softer subjects. Procedure and method are paramount. Once you see that and really understand, you can start to see how it all “works” and realize “how to do it”. Might give you a different feeling.
What do I mean, “Jump”? The idea is to not just nose-around the side, but actually, get involved. That’s the whole idea of Supersolvrs. You learn STEM stuff, by actually doing it — not just reading about it and taking a test.
Important to initially jump in at a level that’s simple enough to have some success, and if you don’t mind my two cents worth, start on a buildable path (not just a cutsie pie, one-off) for the future. Then, even if you decide it’s not for you and decide to stop, you have learned some proper basics.
How about this: I show you how to do a problem, say, add up a bunch op numbers in a programming language like Python. Then I ask you to build one that not only adds the numbers but also print out which one is largest. You come back and present your team’s solution. We look at it and I might suggest a different (maybe better) way to do it.
And so it goes from simple problems to more difficult projects. Lots of miss-hits, yes, failures, and, TA DA, successes. All of the time learning “industrial strength” methods.
Sure, I’m “teaching”, but you are the “doers”. You’ll learn, not because of a formal test, but by succeeding at many, many projects. Plus, I’ll bet that some of your solutions will be better than mine. .
Get ready to jump. “It’s all in the wrist”, as they say.
