Any time I mention math in a room full of people, they are quick to say 'I'm not good at that' This view that math is something you are naturally good at or not is a popular misconception circulating schools today. Math should be treated like learning any other language. We don't just know French or Spanish or whatever language. We were taught the meaning of the words and how those words are used. In math, there are symbols and those symbols have properties and representations. Learning the definitions of a word in another language is very similar to learning the properties of a symbol or notation in mathematics.
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