By Valerie Fitzenreiter
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I guess I'm just worried that they
won't be interested in math until they are adults and then one will suddenly
want to be an engineer or astrophysicist and realize he or she has several
years worth of Math to catch up on - Other subjects I'm not so worried about -
but math builds on itself and is such a LARGE subject!
***** Hi Daniel
I apologize to those that
have heard this before, but Laurie is a summa cum laude grad and now pursuing
her PhD. She hated math. She didn’t want anything math-like to come
within 20 feet of her. She went so far
as to find out that there was a college student in Texas that was so
non-mathematical, that she was able to get a waiver from taking math classes to
graduate from college. Laurie wanted to
do that too. She felt that there should
be a restriction on the back of her degree much like someone who has to wear
glasses has a restriction on the back of their driver’s license. <g> I’m grinning; Laurie was dead serious.
Then Laurie decided she wanted to go to college. She took
the remedial math classes and scored 100%. She went on to take 3
statistics classes that weren't required for her
degree...just because she LOVES math so much. Statistics is so special to her
now
that her chosen career will be in that field.
Basically, when SHE decided that she needed to know math,
she was able to learn how quickly. As a sophomore, she was teaching seniors how
to use their calculators and work statistics problems.
Not bad for a kid that wasn't interested in math huh?