[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Maths, was Time-line inconsistency from Quidditch

[Carole Estes]

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From: "Amy Z" <aiz24 at hotmail.com>

>
> I have a theoretical love of math, but always struggled with it from
> 7th grade (=age 12) on.  Now I look back at geometry in particular
> and think it looks like fun, and I taught pre-algebra and algebra and
> found them both nifty--in the intervening years they had come to make
> sense and be quite easy.  The brief moments when I got the concept in
> calculus were terrific, even though most of that class was
> unmitigated hell (it would have helped if I'd done the homework, but
> I was so overwhelmed I just spiraled into Math Despair).  Maybe one
> day when I'm homeschooling my kid I'll learn the stuff that didn't
> get through my skull in high school.

It may not be you.  My brother in law told me about a show he saw recently
that showed research that indicated the portion of the brain that is used to
do complex maths is not fully developed until the early 20's.  So maybe if
you learned math then it would seem much more obvious than it did when that
part of your brain wasn't fully functional.

carole