I was just horrible at math in school and I survived it enough to get a passing grade. It wasn’t till I was in My 40’s and I was in the Water Treatment biz that I actually had a really good reason to use it. Up until then I had only used the basics making change in the Retail biz.
When I got to Water Treatment then all the other stuff was something I could actually use. I honed My math skills in making Spreadsheets to simplify calculation for Chemical Dosing, water consumption, Tank sizes, Flow and Capacity of Pipelines by creating the Formulas in the Spreadsheet so I could calculate what I needed to know in seconds by entering a couple of values and getting the correct answer. The old way was to use a calculator for each item and having to do it twice to double check the input on the calculator keys.
The calculator was a PIA !!!
Same here. I had a math teacher in 7th grade who was terrible and more interested in hitting on the girls than teaching math.
I lost it then. When I went back to college, I HAD to learn math because I needed to pass calc for my degree. I found a math prof who was a great Christian lady my age and she gave me a crash course in what I needed to know to get through calc.
Then when we homeschooled, we used Saxon math and I learned as I taught the kids and suddenly I understood it and realized that, yes, I actually was good at math.
I also worked at McD’s to put myself through college and it was in the days when you had to do it all by hand. I learned to add like no get out after a couple years on the job to the point where I could do it all mentally. I just wrote it out so the customer could watch and know I wasn’t cheating them.
Practical application is the best teacher.