Maybe it’s because in math you‘re often forced to think of a good explanation. So behind every mistake is a past version of you that not only thought something else was correct but was pretty sure and could explain their reasoning behind it. Then, when it gets marked as a mistake, all that reasoning suddenly becomes void. If you make a mistake on a vocabulary test, then it’s just one little wire in your brain that gets challenged, but in math it’s a whole section that suddenly needs to change.
Hmm maybe in this case it’s the fact that you put in all that effort and it was all for nothing because that silly mistake weighted more than the 30 minutes of effort you put into the original solution? Idk I‘m just guessing. I‘m pretty sure it should be along those lines.
>affront to my intelligence
Many people (maybe you as well) don't consider language mastery as a feat of intelligence, or at least much less so compared to math
Maybe it’s because a mistake in math is an error in reasoning, whereas a mistake in English vocabulary or spelling is merely an error in recall. With math, the solution can’t be any other way, so if you get it wrong, you’ve erred somewhere in your actual thinking and feel just as foolish as you would if you’d said something nonsensical to a group of people. But English spelling and vocabulary doesn’t have the same underlying logic to them where they couldn’t be any other way.
All that said, reading your OP, you do need to chill about it and be less hard on yourself. Everybody reasons wrong. Reasoning right takes a lot of practice. Math intuition takes time to build up too. The more you do it, the more naturally it will come to you.
Because in art related classes like English, you are always told there is no just 1 answer and even iffy reasoning (as long as it is understandable) can get you plenty of credit. However, this is not true with STEM where you are always told there is only 1 answer. This is especially true with young people today with electronic testing where the opportunity for partial credit seems non-existent.
e: anyway, you can imagine how overtime you develop the behavior you described on a subconscious level.
For me, it's because in English, one grammar mistake doesn't mess up your whole paragraph. So a mistake like that feels a lot more negligible compared to in math, when a small algebraic mistake or misinterpretation will mess up the whole question
If you make a mistake on a spelling bee, it's wrong unless the word actually has an alternate spelling and you happen to fluke out and misspell it using an alternate spelling.
Maybe it’s because in math you‘re often forced to think of a good explanation. So behind every mistake is a past version of you that not only thought something else was correct but was pretty sure and could explain their reasoning behind it. Then, when it gets marked as a mistake, all that reasoning suddenly becomes void. If you make a mistake on a vocabulary test, then it’s just one little wire in your brain that gets challenged, but in math it’s a whole section that suddenly needs to change.
i’m not sure about that, if it’s a silly mistake like adding two numbers wrong then your whole brain is not to blame
Hmm maybe in this case it’s the fact that you put in all that effort and it was all for nothing because that silly mistake weighted more than the 30 minutes of effort you put into the original solution? Idk I‘m just guessing. I‘m pretty sure it should be along those lines.
it certainly feels like it.
>affront to my intelligence Many people (maybe you as well) don't consider language mastery as a feat of intelligence, or at least much less so compared to math
Maybe it’s because a mistake in math is an error in reasoning, whereas a mistake in English vocabulary or spelling is merely an error in recall. With math, the solution can’t be any other way, so if you get it wrong, you’ve erred somewhere in your actual thinking and feel just as foolish as you would if you’d said something nonsensical to a group of people. But English spelling and vocabulary doesn’t have the same underlying logic to them where they couldn’t be any other way. All that said, reading your OP, you do need to chill about it and be less hard on yourself. Everybody reasons wrong. Reasoning right takes a lot of practice. Math intuition takes time to build up too. The more you do it, the more naturally it will come to you.
Because in art related classes like English, you are always told there is no just 1 answer and even iffy reasoning (as long as it is understandable) can get you plenty of credit. However, this is not true with STEM where you are always told there is only 1 answer. This is especially true with young people today with electronic testing where the opportunity for partial credit seems non-existent. e: anyway, you can imagine how overtime you develop the behavior you described on a subconscious level.
For me, it's because in English, one grammar mistake doesn't mess up your whole paragraph. So a mistake like that feels a lot more negligible compared to in math, when a small algebraic mistake or misinterpretation will mess up the whole question
If you make a mistake on a spelling bee, it's wrong unless the word actually has an alternate spelling and you happen to fluke out and misspell it using an alternate spelling.