Child series - Of philias and phobias
Child series - Of philias and phobias I used to hate Math as far back as I can remember. I never really used to 'get it'. Algebra was a dark mystery and I was only slightly better at Geometry. Teachers used to solve some Math problems on the board which I could not follow and they would ask us to do similar kinds of problems ourselves. I never really understood what formulas to use, my tables were weak and I got all my calculations wrong. My mother was a Math teacher at the same school. She was in the primary section and taught all subjects but Math was her strong point. And being a Math teacher, she believed that only children who 'got' Math were intelligent. I would come home from Math exams and pretend to be asleep so that I didn't have to tell my mother how the paper was. But my mother would come back home, knowing fully well that I was avoiding her and would force me to get up and ask me to solve the paper. In those days, we would get the hard copy of the ...