Submitted via IRC for chromas
Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma'
I teach people how to teach math, and I've been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I've met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it comes to doing mathematics.
When people share their stories with me, there are common themes. These include someone telling them they were "not good at math," panicking over timed math tests, or getting stuck on some math topic and struggling to move past it. The topics can be as broad as fractions or an entire class, such as Algebra or Geometry.
[...] One of the biggest challenges U.S. math educators face is helping the large number of elementary teachers who are dealing with math trauma. Imagine being tasked with teaching children mathematics when it is one of your greatest personal fears.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @05:34AM (1 child)
Knowing your 10x10 times table isn't a deep skill it's routinely done by grade school students. If you haven't done it by 4th grade there's something wrong. People all over the world routinely learn and use basic arithmetic on a daily basis.
I'm sorry that you're suffering from such an obvious intellectual disability, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a necessary life skill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @04:38PM
Go and look up school house rock and why it came to exist
Mean sit down and shut up