Can you learn math?

People don’t hate math. They hate that they can’t do it. But almost anyone can learn it, once the keys are found.  Learning is a great pleasure.

A 19-year-old woman I’ll call Alice had always hated school but wanted to pass the GED. She did not know the difference between addition and multiplication, a concept taught very early in grade school. Since the GED covers grade school and high school, I was worried that it might take Alice several years to pass the math part.

How wrong I was.

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