• laughterlaughter@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

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      6 months ago

      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”.

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        6 months ago

        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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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            6 months ago

            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.