Because it was taught wrong to most adults when they were children. Pedagogy has changed, though, and gen alpha are actually becoming numerate instead of being told to just memorize things like my generation was. Maybe the zoomers got lucky with that, too.
But seriously, as a mathematician and a teacher, you’re not bad at math because of something inherent to you. You’re bad at math because you weren’t taught numeracy.
Hmmm. I was taught to memorize a few things that accelerate some work/scenarios. But very little math I was taught involved memorization. Nearly all logic and calculation. And I’m late GenX.
Because it was taught wrong to most adults when they were children. Pedagogy has changed, though, and gen alpha are actually becoming numerate instead of being told to just memorize things like my generation was. Maybe the zoomers got lucky with that, too.
But seriously, as a mathematician and a teacher, you’re not bad at math because of something inherent to you. You’re bad at math because you weren’t taught numeracy.
Hmmm. I was taught to memorize a few things that accelerate some work/scenarios. But very little math I was taught involved memorization. Nearly all logic and calculation. And I’m late GenX.