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5 reasons mathematics is your biggest nightmare

You might have in a way cursed the man that invented Mathematics because he caused the only problem you're facing at school.

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However, some students are so brilliant that they never had any issue with the relationship between numbers and alphabets in solving an equation.

While many other disappear from the classroom or withdraw into oblivion immediately the teacher writes something like this:

''An aeroplane flies against the wind from A to B in 8 hours. The same aeroplane returns from B to A, in the same direction as the wind, in 7 hours. Find the ratio of the speed of the aeroplane (in still air) to the speed of the wind''

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Haa! how do you find a speed ratio of a lost aeroplane when you are in a classroom?

This is the kind of somersaulting thoughts that cross the mind of many students when they are asked to find a letter X that finds itself among numbers.

So, these are five reasons this subject is your biggest academic problem.

It can't be committed to memory

Mathematics is not like Literature in English or Biology that talks about stories and define concepts respectively. Instead, it deals with numbers that can't be committed to memory.

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You just have to thoroughly understand it and get your answers right for any given equation or word problem. If you can't do this, you'll hate it.

Difficulty in understanding it

Mathematics is pretty difficult to understand for so many students, This might be attributed to students' poor foundation in the subject, but everyone seems to agree this branch of science is simply difficult.

Sometimes, Nigerian Mathematics teacher solves classwork effortlessly, but when he gives you a classwork, it becomes a rocket science. Inability to solve your classwork probably the reason you dislike it.

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Boring

Except a school has a teacher that entertains the class with relevant examples and brilliant analogies, students hardly enjoy mathematics class.

Some topics in mathematics make the class atmosphere gloomy, when the calculations and X finding moments reach its peak.

The students get lost in a sea of numbers colliding into one another in the hand of the teacher. And his effort to make them understand the topic makes him more to appear to be talking to himself because the subject is dull and unexciting to the bulk of the students.

Fear of humiliation

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This is another major reason many students dislike this subject. There is no middle ground in mathematics, it is either you get it right or wrong and some students nurse the fear of not getting the right answer when given a classwork.

Such students often hide under the narrative that maths is boring and difficult to hide their fear.

The teacher

If a student does not like mathematics, the teacher should be the number suspect. It is either the teacher is employing the wrong method to teach the complex aspect of the subject or the teacher is as boring as the subject appears to some students.

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The teacher plays a major role in making a student fall in love or falls out with mathematics.

Your teachers might be more responsible for the reason you don't like mathematics than other reason stated above.

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