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And here I am at 46 and I can't help my daughter with her middle school math homework.
It's horrifying, seeing all the things you've forgotten laid out in front of you day after day!
It also doesn't help that they changed math and you now need an entire sheet of paper for each problem.
I relearned basic math when my kids started school. I was 30. It's not too late to learn new tricks. The new math they teach makes mental math much easier.
That's fine. That just means that you're not good at Math or not good at teaching. I'm sure you're good at other things.
I remember hearing this alot growing up, how “you are not a math person”, and I believed it.
Now I have a masters in mechanical engineering and a few patents. Don’t believe this trope of “you aren’t good at math”.
I can relate with this. A doctor told me when I was a middleschooler that I would never graduate from college. Welp... my master's degree proved him otherwise.
If there is such a thing as a learning disability for math, I definitely have it. You only were required to take one math class in college. I took finite math because I was told it was the easiest class. I squeaked by with a C. It's not that issue like with dyslexia where you see numbers switched around, I just find it all totally baffling.
I love Math, but that doesn't mean I love anything with numbers. Accounting classes? Jesus, what a nightmare.
Yeah, math is so much more than numbers.
Yeah, I didn't claim it was.
If I said that I was bad at algebra, which are part of math, would you have said "yeah, math is so much more than algebra"?
Dyscalculia is dyslexia for numbers
That's what I was thinking of. I don't have that. I'm just math stupid.
You probably aren't. You probably weren't properly taught fractions and decimals. There have been studies that show that the overwhelming majority of, specifically Americans, who say that they are bad at math, just never really grokked fractions and decimals, and so the rest of the language makes absolutely no sense. We have been terrible at trying to teach that specific part of math for decades in this country. I really wish we would adopt the curriculums that are actually working elsewhere in the world at a national level.
My mother is still a teacher in her 80s (substitute teacher so she has something to do in retirement,) and I majored in Computer Science and Music Education, I just quickly found out that education is not a field for men to be in, in this country. Too risky.
Me too, math is just too hard.
what they're good at I can't say out loud
It's insane that her first thought, in response to the question of why people were surprised, was the color of her skin, followed by her gender, and only then did she mention the thing that was probably the first thing everyone else thought of: her age.
Regardless, very impressive indeed.
Why did people find your amazing mathematical achievement amazing? Racism. Sexism... Oh yeah, also because we're young. So not because it's cool, it's hard and it's amazing? Nope, just because we happen to be black girls in school, and did this in America...
Such sadness man. Even the bit about people saying African Americans don't have the brains for it or something. Wow, it's sad.
Is it insane though
The educational system must be reformed!
That’s one smart cookie
How is a trig proof different than algebra or geometry proof? I'm good with numbers, but I sucked at proofs.
It’s a mathematical proof, but it’s using trig inside the proof.
If you ever want a fun rabbit hole of mathematicians losing their minds, they had a massive existential crisis about calculus with “What if all of calculus is wrong!?!”, and the subsequent proof developed is one of those things that took years and likely involved a lot of amphetamines.
Trig requires some assumptions and special tools, like SOHCAHTOA and what not that don't really exist in standard algebra.
Oscar has a heap of apples.
This happened a while ago, and even more uplifting is Ne'Kiya Jackson got into college by doing this!