“I never want to hear anyone say to my daughters ‘I’m not a math person’ or ‘my brain doesn’t think that way,’ because I believe these messages can reinforce the idea that you have to be born to be a math and science person. And that’s just not true.”https://m-gat.es/2jGMlhK
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So the teaching of mathematics is typically bedeviled by gross malpractice, and complete alienation from the subject occurs in most cases. From eighth grade onward, fifty percent of math students abandon the subject every year. Most adults boast of their hatred of mathematics.
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And the grim irony is that virtually none of these openly mathophobic adults has ever actually seen any mathematics. Even those who've spent twelve years of their lives chasing As and perfect test scores (and getting them) emerge from the ordeal with no idea what mathematics is.
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