I certainly wouldn't blame anyone else for it. I was never taught that I wouldn't be good at maths because I'm female. I was expected to be.
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It astonished my father, who got me through the GCSE I'd need to go to uni, that I found it so hard to grasp what was so easy for him.
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My daughter excels at maths & finds the humanities tedious. I try not to be astonished at this & am genuinely very proud.
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I don't understand the need some ppl feel to disparage things they're not good at or aren't interested in.
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Especially when it's maths or science. They are quite important! I blame postmodernism. For everything. OK, not everything. But for a lot.
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Don't think so. Had much tutoring & put in maximum effort. Still came very hard and A level was not an option.
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Your brain won't retain things it's not genuinely engaged with?
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Do you feel the same way about the illiterate or do you see innumeracy as somehow different? (These terms may be too broad.)
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I don't think anyone should be illiterate or innumerate. By 'bad at' I don't mean that degree of bad.
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I find I'm better at stuff I'm interested in. Things that bore me are more challenging.
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Interest & ability do seem to go together.
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I'm proud as fuck that I'm good at it but I wish I was good at other things - no one is impressed when I do maths party tricks.
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I'd be ashamed if I was not good at maths. ....
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