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<blockquote data-quote="starcloaked" data-source="post: 84247" data-attributes="member: 3632"><p>Just another vote of another person (with the same name!) who grew up being "bad at math." I now work at a prestigious university doing statistics for a living. Turns out, I just can't do abstract math, but I can do math when it means something, and I can explain it to people better than 90% of people with PhDs in math (I know because I work with these people). I still can't do algebra (though I don't share that with most of the math PhDs I work with) unless it's a concrete question and I can work out the solution my own way. I can do calculus, I got an A in finance at the master's level and was told I was my grad stats prof's best student of all time. But ask me to solve for x and I'm at a complete and utter loss. To this day, master's degree and $200/hr consulting rate in hand, I would probably fail high school algebra. I wonder what would have happened had I been taught differently...</p><p></p><p>I've read some research about the way math is taught in the US being very unusual from an international perspective, and being contrary to what teaching and learning research says are the most effective methods. All my life I've just coped by adding the hundreds and the tens and the ones separately and then putting the whole thing together, instead of carrying the ones and such (to give addition as an example), and it turns out that many countries teach kids to do exactly that and research shows that more kids learn that way than in our "traditional way." So anyway, like the other Star said, it's not necessarily a matter of being "bad" at it. It's a matter of how you understand it.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm sorry for all you're going through with difficult child. My difficult child is a peanut compared to yours, but I'm sure we'll get some drama about family structure some day. I figure if they're exposed to diversity and protected from bias (directly targeted at them; cultural bias is of course everpresent), I will try not to worry about it, and if they start to act out, that's going to get an earful. I can imagine that a nice lecture on diversity and bias and privilege (trotting out your work as a diversity trainer) might be a nice punishment. :wink:</p><p></p><p>Star</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="starcloaked, post: 84247, member: 3632"] Just another vote of another person (with the same name!) who grew up being "bad at math." I now work at a prestigious university doing statistics for a living. Turns out, I just can't do abstract math, but I can do math when it means something, and I can explain it to people better than 90% of people with PhDs in math (I know because I work with these people). I still can't do algebra (though I don't share that with most of the math PhDs I work with) unless it's a concrete question and I can work out the solution my own way. I can do calculus, I got an A in finance at the master's level and was told I was my grad stats prof's best student of all time. But ask me to solve for x and I'm at a complete and utter loss. To this day, master's degree and $200/hr consulting rate in hand, I would probably fail high school algebra. I wonder what would have happened had I been taught differently... I've read some research about the way math is taught in the US being very unusual from an international perspective, and being contrary to what teaching and learning research says are the most effective methods. All my life I've just coped by adding the hundreds and the tens and the ones separately and then putting the whole thing together, instead of carrying the ones and such (to give addition as an example), and it turns out that many countries teach kids to do exactly that and research shows that more kids learn that way than in our "traditional way." So anyway, like the other Star said, it's not necessarily a matter of being "bad" at it. It's a matter of how you understand it. Anyway, I'm sorry for all you're going through with difficult child. My difficult child is a peanut compared to yours, but I'm sure we'll get some drama about family structure some day. I figure if they're exposed to diversity and protected from bias (directly targeted at them; cultural bias is of course everpresent), I will try not to worry about it, and if they start to act out, that's going to get an earful. I can imagine that a nice lecture on diversity and bias and privilege (trotting out your work as a diversity trainer) might be a nice punishment. [img]:wink:[/img] Star [/QUOTE]
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