Sounds like my experience with college calculus. Come to find out, I really didn't care where the formulas came from or why they worked. Give me the frickin' numbers, I'll plug them in and get on with it! :rofl:
He had bad teacher(s) in high school that went way to fast for him to absorb some of the math... Then when he tried to get tutoring, he got his same teacher who left him behind...
In addition, he's been out of high school for 7 years and lost some of the basic foundations and dropped the pre calc and failed it the third time when I took it with him at the local comm college two years ago...
So he wised up and started over at basic algebra at the local comm college near his college (NIU) and is now ready to take the pre calc... But our local comm college will only let you take it three times and he has used up all of those chances and has to take it at another college....