A Part of Life

Millions of people learn each year that they should feel bad about doing math because, alas, they do not do it well. This is very strange. It would be such a different thing if you could dispense with the “doing it well” stipulation. If it could be taught some other way, then it would become a real conversation, one that anyone might participate in. It would become a common way that most people could communicate. People could make it a part of their lives. That proves a novel notion, of course.