Posted by alexandra_k on April 24, 2014, at 21:33:22
In reply to Re: going ahead » alexandra_k, posted by Poet on April 24, 2014, at 18:01:22
Hi Poet. Yeah, that library fine freaked me out. They reduced it to $20 for which I feel extremely grateful... Otherwise... I... Uh... Am fairly ashamed to admit that I wouldn't have paid it... Anyway... Paid the fine so... In good standing with them. Which means a lot, actually. Feeling calmer about it. Isn't likely to recur. Etc.
One of my good friends is married to a high school maths teacher. He says... It is mostly that maths is really cumulative with later skills building on / extending from earlier skills. So if you miss a few days of school for sickness or sports or whatever... Or you had teachers who didn't take you through the curriculum as they were supposed to (especially in primary where teachers often seem to get away with avoiding subjects they can't themselves do)... Then later bits don't make sense. So kids often think they are dumb or whatever... But it is more that they don't have the foundation that the other students have. So... Trying harder at a certain level... Will only get you so far... Uh... That's why I've gone back. Started at Kindy... So everything builds on what has gone before...
So... It is probably the case that you just missed some of the crucial bits. And your parents or teachers or whatever decided to work with your strengths... And that is that. My last degree... I avoided math, too. It was easy to start because I was an english major... Had to do logic for philosophy which almost put me off majoring... But I got through it okay... Stats for psychology put me off majoring in psychology (I considered taking an additional year to come out with a double major)...
Anyway... we have to bring our calculators to class now so, uh, we'll see...
Thanks for the well wishes :)
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