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You know what's bad, though, Lorri? In high school, we had a choice of general math or business math. Now, my kids are required to take at least one year of algebra. Luckily, we have a friend who is a chemistry teacher at our high school. He personally tutored my son with the algebra. Otherwise, he probably would have gotten an F instead of a C.

I took the college prep route and did basic math, algebra and then hit geometry and received the first and only F in my life! I tell everyone I teach 2nd grade for a reason---I can't do the math in the upper grades! (truthfully, I probably could do it, but I don't want to have to be responsible for teaching someone the WRONG way). Teaching second grade means I don't go past times tables and basic division!

OMG that is so funny Lorri! I am with you, my daughter is getting into HS math, way over my head as I hit middle age

Believe me, both my daughters know WAY more math than I do! They both got to Pre Calculus in High School, while I was lucky to get out of Geometry in one piece! When I took the SAT's back in the Stone Age, I think you got 100 points for signing your name--and my score was 101 in Math!

Okay, what about the guys out there? How are your math skills versus English? By the way, I have a brother-in-law who I used to type term papers for when he was in college. He was always very smart, but when it came to using to/two/too, their/there, etc., he didn't have a clue. I would practically have to rewrite his report before I could type it. But math, he was a whiz. (Now he's vice-president of a computer company).

Here's how many times I have taken Algebra and my grades. 11th grade--C minus, junior college--C minus, university--C plus (with a tutor) and in my master's program it was Statistics and I received a C (which I think the teacher gave me just cause I turned everything in on time---ALL WRONG ANSWERS of course, but by golly they were ON TIME!!!!) You would think with all of theses math classes I would know how to manage a buck!

Like my son says, "It always looks better on paper." In other words, easier said than done.

When I was in college I had to take Algebra, I took it the first time with my other classes and failed it beautifully the next time I took it by itself and got an A but I worked my but off to get that A and of course that A trumped the F on my transcript

When I was in 8th grade I only went for half a day, then took a bus to the high school and took algebra, english and biology. In high school I took Advanced Algebra, Honors Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Chemistry and Physics.

When I got to college, I aced the placement tests and didn't have to take three years of "regular" math, but I did have to take Discrete Mathematics 1 & 2 (the highlight of my course was writing a 2-page proof, using logic and truth tables, to prove that an odd number plus an odd number will always equal an even number.)

I'm good in English, and always got A's, but I hate it. Never quite enjoyed analyzing "what the author really meant."

... don't know what the original post here was about, but I just seen people talking about math and thought I would chime in.

DEbtcruncher you make my head spin. All the math. My sons friend is also a brain. Was excepted Friday to Harvard. Not bad for a country boy. LOL KYSIDE38

I love math, could crunch numbers all day. Every job I had so far, they end up putting me in charge of accounting; and that's not what I was originally hired to do... the best, I started in high school scooping ice cream at a soda fountain. By my 2nd year in college, the owner moved me into his office and made me his bookkeeper.

Congrats to your son's friend. Harvard is definitely an accomplishment. I went to DePaul for a computer science degree, realized I hate computers, and then got a job with a finance company.

DebtCruncher---you are making my head hurt! Numbers are bad---words are good--LOL. Seriously, a seminar I took once explained it all (why some are better at math/some at English, etc.). It is all in the way we learn--everyone has different learning styles and things that make sense to one person, won't to another. For example, your brain understands how numbers and letters (like in Algebra) can go together and make sense. My brain sees letters and numbers as separate and should never be together.

Isn't it all kind of similar to being left-brained or right-brained. One side of the brain is good at all the logical stuff, like math. The other side is good at all the "free-thinking" stuff like writing, creativity, music, etc. I think I remember that from one of my psychology classes...

Debt cruncher, I've heard that, too. As I said, I'm not good with numbers. I enjoy writing, typing, etc., but I am not very creative. It just amazes me how easily drawing a picture that actually looks like something is for two of my sons. I have a hard time drawing a tree and making it look like one! I really think a lot of it is hereditary. Their grandfather (their father's dad) was a cartoon artist, so they definitely get it from his side. My mom couldn't draw, either!

This is all too much for my tiny, cold-medicine-fogged-brain this late at night! LOL

I am the one everyone at work asks how to spell things...and incorrect spelling drives me nuts. Hated Consumer Math (word problems about golf scores and trains driving towards each other at differing rates of speed...ick), also hated Algebra with a passion...yet I loved Accounting and still do. Go figure.

I have to really control myself about correcting adults and their spelling. It is one of my pet-peeves! For some reason my students (ages 7&will say things like "I brang my lunch" or "I brunged this for share". I correct THEM on that, pretty darned quick!