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The article starts with “Here’s how to stop maths-phobia setting in” but does not focus on how to overcome ingrained maths-fobia in adults. What attitude towar
by sshine 3y ago
The article starts with “Here’s how to stop maths-phobia setting in” but does not focus on how to overcome ingrained maths-fobia in adults.
What attitude towards math would have prevented your depression and trauma?
I think that if “anyone can do math” implies “equally well”, or “any kind of math”, this is going to hit a lot of people hard.
I found the math that I was good at very late in life.
- omginternets 3y agoI half-jokingly refer to myself as a recovering math-phobic. What did wonders for my relationship with the subject was to have an actual, concrete problem I wanted to solve, and to experience first hand the joy of understanding its mathematical solution for the first time. It’s the same joy I experienced as a young programmer: the thrill of success, mixed with wonderment at how something could be so simple and yet so magical. I am convinced that accomplishment breeds passion, and that the way to get over a fear of math is the same as any other phobia; confront it in small increments until you’re able to get a few “wins”.