In my family growing up, 3 boys and 3 girls, I was the most math proficient in the family, and I think my little sister was next. All of my brothers are older than me, and one of my brothers needed remedial math in junior college. My brothers all struggled with algebra, but were some better at geometry. None of the 3 were better than I was at any type of math class.
However, my husband is an engineer, and he is definitely better with numbers than most anyone I know.
What this proves, I don’t know. I may have been the outlier growing up, but my brothers weren’t geniuses in math. In fact, they weren’t much genius at any school subjects. The one brother who is terrible at math is quite a historian, though. He knows all sorts of historical information.
“I may have been the outlier growing up,”
Same here.
Math, Physics, Chemistry were a piece of cake.
Anything involving writing was torture!
Wanted to get a Ph.D. in Pharm but got an M.D. cuz I didn’t have to write a thesis. That would have been torture.