Reply #7: Now that you mention it... [View All]

[friesianrider]

I was always very gifted in math when I was a child (and a young child, I'm talking 3rd and 4th grade). When I was in 3rd grade, I remember when my regular class would do their math lessons for the day I was always sent to a 5th grade classroom to take their math lessons with them.

Then, and I remember it like it was yesterday, when I finally hit the 6th grade, I had a teacher who made me go to the front of the room and do a math problem on the board. I had no idea how to do it, and being only 12 or so I remember feeling terrified and just breaking down and crying in front of my whole class...and I remember how embarassed and mortified I was. Ever since then I think I've always been fearful of math.

Don't know how on Earth I will make it through my two math requirements now...plus now I've got a mind thing about it that I "can't" do it. It's so stupid! I'm not like this in any other aspect of my life or academic life...it's *just* with math.