Learning to Hate Mathematics

Learning to Hate Mathematics

                                           
Most of the students hate mathematics but I don't. I love it and I know that I'm good at it. However, I wonder if I can try to learn how to hate it. As far as I remember when I was in grade 1, I don't even like numbers I prefer more on reading story books and watching televisions. Sometimes I also wonder why mathematics became the subject hated most by the students. As I think of it I found an answer in my mind that mathematics was hated because it gives headache to them. Solving numerical problems, word problems, and complicated formulas/equations, no wonder because I've experienced already struggling with these and even though I'm good at it, that doesn't make sense because it really causes headache when you don't really understand.

People have their wants and hates but it's their choice and we have nothing to do with it. I've been thinking if I could learn to hate mathematics in some other way. How would that be? As for it, I searched for an article and I found one entitled "Learning to Hate Mathematics"  by Anne Miller. According to her, she didn't want to memorize the multiplication tables. She said that,"unlike learning how to read, studying math seemed to have no purpose other than to give me massive headaches and shattered nerves." I can say that its true but mathematics has its purpose because if there no mathematics numbers wouldn't exist in the minds of the learners. However it is her opinion and I won't correct her knowing that she really hate mathematics that much.

Mathematics really gives headache to everyone but if you understand it you'll enjoy dealing with it. Some students really have terrible fears and hatred to mathematics because it always give them pain and disruption of mind. Imagine memorizing the multiplication tables some would surely prefer to memorize the alphabet because it is more easier than the multiplication tables that makes your life very hard. 

In these article, the author mentioned way in order to escape math problems specially when you are in a competition. It's simple she said,"just deliberately give the wrong answer then you're done and eliminated" so you wouldn't have to suffer more dealing with mare difficult problems in the competition. In school, skipping to do homework surely means you have difficulties in it but if you're proven to do it, teachers will surely make you to stay and solve/answer out some mathematical problems and it's worse so just prepare or just copy from your classmate just to have one. When you are dealing with geometry and trigonometry as well as algebra, you just answer the question even if it is wrong just to make sure that you wouldn't get punished to have more problems to solve because of skipping homework.

However, even you hate mathematics, sometimes you'll just notice that you enjoy doing crazy things and you become somewhat interested in some books or articles about the facts specially when it is about hating mathematics. Mathematics is a painful subject to most of us but remember to not hate it because the usefulness of it will surely help you in your life. 

"Enjoy learning about math on your own terms.at your own pace then it would be easier."

                                  


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