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Ask HN: How do I improve my command of mathematical language?
2 by deboniscognitio | 0 comments on Hacker News.
First of all, sorry if my English sounds off, maybe weird; it's not my first language but I'm striving to improve. Short story short: I went back to high school in my late 20s and next year I'll graduate. Over the years I went from hating math to really enjoying it, especially calculus, but there's still one thing that keeps bugging me, and that's my command of its language. I have no problem solving most of algebra or calculus problems, but if you asked me to explain what I'm doing I wouldn't be able to tell you, at least not using mathematical constructs/words. It doesn't help that I can't find any resources like you could for any natural language. When I asked my teacher she said to practice over and over, but that's all I've been doing these years and it didn't do much to improve my oral presentation. So, I'm asking here in the hope that someone who went through the same struggle or understands the mental process very well and knows what it takes to "fix the computation-presentation bridge", could help me or guide me in the right direction, to overcome this obstacle. Thank y'all for your time.

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