Comments on: Math: It’s A Tie

By: Tracee

Tracee — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:07:00 +0000

Wonderful to hear Treece.

It’s never too late to LEARN math – maybe Moms will like it more the second time around.

By: Treece

Treece — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:16:00 +0000

I promised myself that I would raise my daughters to believe they were good at math. Period. I believe too many moms give the wrong message to their girls by saying “I’m lousy at math, too” or “It’s okay if you don’t understand – I never did and I survived.” It’s a big pet peeve of mine.

As mothers, we need to encourage them, and give the confidence they need to succeed in math. If you don’t believe in them, no one will. Even if you have to pretend.

It works. Believe me.

By: Tracee

Tracee — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:49:00 +0000

I WAS not a math whiz. I always felt I couldn’t do it because it was too hard. I was lazy about it.

Then I realized it costs a lot of freaking money to be bad at math and I didn’t want my daughter inheriting my math inferiority complex.

I confronted my “math retardation” – as I used to call it.

I also realized when Ainsley was around 3 that I had focused solely on letters and reading in our early education practice at home. I shifted and started teaching math and counting and now Ainsley is doing great at math.

More on that: http://traceesioux.blogspot.com/2007/10/math-retarded.html

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Interesting indeed.

By: Ellen Gerstein

Ellen Gerstein — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:34:00 +0000

I am not a math whiz. Far from it. My standardized test scores started out equally split between verbal and math, and ended up being 99th percentile verbal,30th math.

My daughter, on the other hand, is very good at math. She will freely tell people she is a "math wizard." She made her own t-shirt that says "Math is Cool."

No inferiority complex here. Keep it up, Girl!