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Easily? It's not like you're born with math predisposition. It has everything to do with culture. Asian parents push their kids to greatness. Some other groups
by bufferoverflow 4y ago
Easily? It's not like you're born with math predisposition. It has everything to do with culture. Asian parents push their kids to greatness. Some other groups do not.
- golemotron 4y agoI didn't know there were any pure nurturists left. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is worth reading.
- ndriscoll 4y agoMath always came easy to me up to grad school level. My parents didn't really push me. If I did my homework, it was timeboxed to what I could do on the bus ride, which meant I mostly just didn't do it once I started driving. I spent my afternoons playing video games. I remember my calc 2 teacher scolding me for never doing my homework and telling me I was going to get a C regardless of my AP exam score (most of the AP teachers at my school gave you an A if you got a 5). I didn't really care, got a 5. My habits and attitude improved somewhat during undergrad (I figured out in junior year that you can actually read those books you buy!), but as a kid I was a horrible student. I took all honors/AP classes because the normal ones were so boring and slow, not because I had tiger parents. From all of this, I'm forced to conclude that either everyone just likes to complain and actually math is easy, or some people find it easy and some do not, and I was very fortunate to be one of the former.