3. ELI5: How come a lot of people don't like math?

ELI5: How come a lot of people don't like math?

I'm late to the game on this but for me I used to love math. I was 5 and 6 years old doing multiplication. It made sense to me and I was above average. I was homeschooled. Then we moved and I went to public school for 4 months. They told me multiplication was above my level and was too hard. They didn't let me work on it and for some reason my mom didn't stick with it. I lost a lot of knowledge in those months. I started believing that it was too hard for me. I was homeschooled again from second grade until I graduated. I believe I was average in math until I hit algebra. To this day I've taken 2 years of pre algebra, algebra 1, algebra 2, and 2 courses of basic algebra in college (online, first mistake) and I still. Don't. Get it. I've never had a real teacher. My mom didn't know enough math once we reached late middle school and I cannot learn math from books. We watched videos and tried all sorts of things online. I could figure out how to solve a certain problem but as soon as you changed one little detail I was totally lost, stressed out, and probably close to tears. I took two basic math courses in college but online were the ones that fit my schedule (I graduated with my bachelors in 2.5 years so it wasn't uncommon to be taking anywhere from 18-27 credits in a semester). The other math courses I took were for grades k-4 and were mostly logic based so I was the best in the class even with a below average teacher. Math doesn't make sense to me when I can't understand what I'm doing and why. I need somebody to explain everything instead of just telling me to memorize formulas and etc. I get easily frustrated when I don't understand it, especially when most other subjects seem to come easy for me. I've been to the point of tears more times than I care to admit. I'm lucky now that I'm with a patient boyfriend who is willing to teach and explain things. I'm hoping that when I have kids I can make the whole math process easier for them, whether they're "naturally good" or not.

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