Category: Bad at math

This prompt made me think about it for the first time, in fact I feel like I have never asked my self if I’m bad at math. I always feel like I was okay in math and not good or bad. Although it has crossed my mind sometimes that I am bad at math, but haven’t said it out loud, this is usually when I am struggling with solving some problems during homework and specially during exams. I feel like exams make my mind to blank out and take more time than usual to remember the way to solve the problems. What I do when this starts to happen is to close my eyes and just try to flashback myself to the notes that I have taken and from there I can start remembering things that are related to the exam. When we can do with open book it takes less time to remember things as just by reading part of it it can make me remember most of it. If one of my friends tells me that he/she is bad at math I will try to advise them and help them out by stating that no body is bad at math (or at any subject) it might be that he/she has to spend a little bit more time on math, or to change the way to lear it: meaning taking notes, practicing more, using sticky notes for special notes or color pens. Overall, I think we all can handle any subject as longs as we set our minds to do it and to now put our minds that we are bad at it because our mind will trick us to it.

I have thought and said out loud that I am bad at math several times. The first time it occurred was back in high school. There were few topics I found difficult and did not like at all and every time I would try solving a problem related to those topics, I would get stuck and I will ask myself why am I so bad at math?. My best friend tells me all the time that she is bad at math. Whenever my friends tell me that I just respond back by saying: no, don’t say that, you’re not. You just need more practice. I feel like the fact that we struggle when trying to solve problems sometimes make us feel as though we’re bad at math. I learned to deal with it and I don’t say or feel that way anymore. I kept practicing, asked questions around me, I would tell myself that it’s not impossible and if others can do it, I can too. So, I would advice the same thing to anyone who says or thinks they’re bad at math or any other subject in general.