Help! Failing Algebra 2!

Is it possible that you can talk to your teacher and ask them what you've been doing wrong? I would think that they could give you the most accurate advice on how to change your grade.

Without seeing your work, it's hard to tell. Check out the right answers and see what you got wrong. Ask your teachers about what you did wrong, they should be able to tell and they're usually willing to help when they see a student trying to understand his errors.Sometimes, you just get stuck with a detail and once you've found what it was, it all works out. If you're as good at maths as you say, it shouldn't be a problem for you.Sorry I can't give you a precise answer, it really depends on the kind of errors you make.

I'm just not understanding the content like I did with geometry and physics. I mean, in those classes I can figure out a formula before someone gives it to me. In algebra everything seems so isolated from each other, but you need to know concept to understand another, but you cant logically progress from one to another. By this I mean, in geometry, I know the formula for the area of a rectangle and the area of a circle. Before my teacher gave us the formula, it made sense that the formula for the surface area of a cylinder would be a combination of the two. In algebra 2 you can know how to factor, and you need to know how to do that to find the zeros of a function, but there's no relationship indicating that you need to factor a function in order to find its zeros.

I'm really not a maths expert so I hope what I am going to say will make sense : 1. Since it can't be understood the way as geometry or physics, you'll probably have to come up with a different learning system in order to remember all the concepts since you can't link them logically.2. I still think you should talk to your teachers about it. Maybe they see a logical link that you don't, or maybe they just have tips for how you could memorize and uderstand it all more easily.