Maybe I just live in a good school district. One day my son came home from either 1st grade and asked what a square root was. I can't remember if he knew mult

Maybe I just live in a good school district. One day my son came home from either 1st grade and asked what a square root was. I can't remember if he knew multiplication already, but after I explained it didn't seem like it got very much of it. The next day he asked me what a cube root was. At this point, I had to find out what was driving these questions. It turns out there were a bunch of them on the playground trying to impress each other with their math knowledge. He begged me to teach him more math. Btw, these kids doing this on the playground, none of them would be considered nerds. They were all pretty physically able and most of the games they played were the typical variety. I believe it's all about expectations and tone. If you fear math you can pass that anxiety on to your kids. I wasn't in my kid's 1st grade class, but I'm guessing they made it fun and not very intimidating. At home, even before he was school age, we would do math problems, so that he was comfortable with it.