Growin up, I loved to play and to go to church. As a small child who didn't start schooling early, I had difficulty coping with the smaller and younger pupils in my class.
These kids were smart, outspoken, expressive and above all could solve what I considered difficult arithmetics which I couldn't.
On one of the days, a little boy solved the questions on the board and was given cane to beat me. (It was permitted in my school in those days) And I was so ashamed of myself.
After that incident, I promised never to allow any of these boys outshine me again. The hardest part of the learning for me was the mathematics and the quantitative reasoning in particular.
I dont know about you, but I still find this very difficult to solve as an adults. Even though I love numbers and figures now, I still strugle to solve Quantitative reasoning.
This made me to develop a level of resentment and hatred for mathematics.
I was Happy that I had droped mathematics as a major course for my degree untill I became an uncle and my Nieces and nephews start coming with home with homework containing quantitative reasoning. Again? What is this trouble self? Can't someone just rest in this house one day without solving arithmetic? And pls dont tell me its simple mathematics because it is not my lifestyle.
Do you love mathematics?
