Quote Originally Posted by stillldoinit View Post
I always did ok in math until the alphabet got involved. Now it just doesn’t seem that important anymore.����
I presume that your "alphabet" is a reference to algebra. Algebra is the language of mathematics; you can't do much beyond arithmetic without developing some facility with algebra. Take the time to learn it; mathematics is a most useful tool in the shop.

Once you understand that quantities can be represented by symbols (usually letters of several alphabets) and that the symbols can be manipulated in the same way that one might manipulate the quantities themselves, algebra becomes intuitive.