artremis had to explain to me that 'a proof' was a specific mathematical usage, so er, no, I don't know any. ;-)
The 'have you ever' qu, I ticked other because:
-In primary school I loved what was taught as maths (coz as artremis usefully pointed out, what 'maths' is changes hugely depending on level/style of education) *and* was in a class of three people who had extra maths lessons because we whizzed through everything too quickly.
Somewhere by my teens however, I grew an utter fear of/boredom with 'maths' (whatever it had come to represent by then) and thought (erroneously - I wasn't brilliant, but certainly wasn't awful) that I was utterly and completely useless at it/it exemplified Me Being Stupid and/or Failing. (partly this might be to do with going to same school as sister who was mathsy and sporty(maths/further maths/maths degree), and being expected to be same)
Recently, a friend who is a maths academic has explained various mathsy things in ways which I have a)understood to some degree, this as asssessed by him in our discussions and b)found very interesting.
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plums and maths, a mini saga
Date: 2009-02-19 04:15 pm (UTC)The 'have you ever' qu, I ticked other because:
-In primary school I loved what was taught as maths (coz as
Somewhere by my teens however, I grew an utter fear of/boredom with 'maths' (whatever it had come to represent by then) and thought (erroneously - I wasn't brilliant, but certainly wasn't awful) that I was utterly and completely useless at it/it exemplified Me Being Stupid and/or Failing. (partly this might be to do with going to same school as sister who was mathsy and sporty(maths/further maths/maths degree), and being expected to be same)
Recently, a friend who is a maths academic has explained various mathsy things in ways which I have
a)understood to some degree, this as asssessed by him in our discussions and
b)found very interesting.
So maths and me have an interesting history.