You Are Not a “Math Personâ€
Tim Stahmer,
Assorted Stuff,
Feb 17, 2021
My math skills advanced almost to the top of the graph (I still have 'learning advanced calculus' in my list of unfinished business to attend to) but I can say that there's a lot of truth to this cartoon (especially if you extend 'spreadsheets' to include vectors and matrices). Anyhow, the main point of this article is to stress that being a 'math person' depends a lot more on how you were taught (and, I would add, how much you practiced and internalized math) than genes or inheritance. "Before blaming yourself or the genetic make-up of your family for not excelling at math, take a closer look at the disconnect between the subject as you learned it in school and how it's used in your life."
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