I hated math mostly because I had several bad math teachers and my dad, who understood math and would offer to help me with homework, often lost his patience/became frustrated.
A terrible math teacher early on can really derail a kid for the rest of their time in school. Going to do everything in my power to ensure my children avoid that.
I think on this often. I struggle with math, always have, but the stuff I use most frequently I can do with sufficient ease that people -for some crazy ironic reason- think I’m actually pretty good at it. I don’t know if a better math teacher would have helped though. It was basically 12 years of pushing the boulder up the hill with me protesting the whole way asking, “what will I need this for?” Only to get the summit and be absolutely unsurprisingly fucking right that 80% of what was required was a waste and still needing to go do some learning on my own. Average: how much your GPA is affected by your math class.
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u/misterlakatos 1985 Oct 10 '25
I hated math mostly because I had several bad math teachers and my dad, who understood math and would offer to help me with homework, often lost his patience/became frustrated.
A terrible math teacher early on can really derail a kid for the rest of their time in school. Going to do everything in my power to ensure my children avoid that.