They dont need to learn how to love math, they already do. What you cant teach them is to love a system designed two hundred years ago to teach very ignorant pe

They dont need to learn how to love math, they already do. What you cant teach them is to love a system designed two hundred years ago to teach very ignorant people about math. Most of the people who "hate" math do so because they were forced to "learn" it through an antiquated system. I hated my math classes, yet was always the top score on the annual standarized tests. Its not about math, but about how they teach it. Best way to teach math? Same way as with other science. Use it. Dont teach kids fractions because of fractions. Show them how fractions work in the real world. My 10 year old niece was having trouble with the multiplication. Why? Because her teacher made them say it in front of the whole class. I went ahead and sat her down. Booted up ubuntu and taught her how multiplication works with javascript. She sat for around one hour toying with the code I wrote for her. What do you think is more fun? - Standing in front of other kids who are making fun of you and saying the multiplication tables. - Writing done the following code and tinkering with it and calculating what the answer will be. var base = 5; var num = 4; var total = num * base; document.write(total); //She spent one hour with those four lines of code, and learned more about multiplication. She is now learning python. :)