Elementary school teachers and high school teachers that I had were great, but I really did lack in the math department. It may not be the fault of math teachers. As someone at the TED website posted in the comments, some teachers end up being math teachers and they hated math. They even said so to children.
So when we’ve got math teachers who hate math teaching these skills to kids who also have learned to hate math, you can easily see why science and engineering careers seem like the impossible reach to kids. Many may have the aspiration, but when we make math ‘harder’ on ourselves by trying to memorize formulas instead of building formulas ourselves, it’s a limitation. We get told it may be too hard and to try something else.
What’s your thoughts on math?
