Contact the math department and see if they can recommend any tutors. You need one-on-one help to get you over your fear and frustration.

Also, try to approach the subject anew. Forget that you’ve had troubles in the past. Open the book and read the first chapter. Don’t try to do any problems, just follow along and try to understand the new vocabulary. Think of the words that way, as vocabulary instead of math jibberish. Take a short break. Now read the chapter, try to work the problems presented in the chapter – even if you just copy down the problem exactly as they’ve done it in the book. Doing it yourself, step by step, will help the process sink in. Sometimes it’s best to get the process down first and then the understanding follows. Then work the practice problems at the end of the chapter.

Hopefully that’ll help. I think you’re being too hard on yourself for not getting it the first time, and that’s making you frustrated and more difficult to get it the second time. I’m sure you can do it though.

You don’t say where you are located, but I’d advise you go to www.kumon.com and see if they have a Kumon class near you. You will have to pay to attend, but the results will be worth it. They do not try to fix what’s wrong, they test you and find out at what level you are doing things right, then build on that. If possible, drop your college class right now and go back to it later, after you’ve mastered the math that your college professor isn’t able to teach. You do not have to take this class right now. Trust me. Besides, why is your counselor having you take Algebra 2 instead of Algebra 1? And if you already took Algebra 1 and passed, why didn’t your Algebra 1 instructor prepare you for Algebra 2? I’m a retired math teacher who went over to Kumon because I was tired of getting kids in my class who hadn’t learned what they needed the year before. Yes, there are bad teachers, and you seem to have found one of them. Dump him now. He’s not a good teacher if you’re always getting Fs. This is unacceptable.

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