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Originally Posted by Nefeli
derek, your math teacher was obviously, an idiot.
there is an early crucial point with math, around when you are 9-or 10 at school, where you might lose it. and then its this silly "terror" around it, that simply puts you off; it always made me furious and i remember telling to my fellow pupils, to ignore this "terror". not that anybody was listening to me!
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I was pretty bad at it from the start. Somebody failed to explain the basics and everyone else failed to explain there was a point to it, and spent most of their time saying "if you don't get it, you're stupid". It's the right and wrong thing I suppose, you keep getting this negative reinforcement "wrong, wrong, wrong" - as the results matter more than understanding.
I remember this really traumatic experience when a teacher said no one would go home before getting this equation right. I couldn't get it at all, and all she did was to have me sit and do it again, I was hungry, tired, had this horrible sense of failure and the whole thing felt like torture - I spent hours there and NEVER got it right.