From my experience, math is one of the least liked skills taught in education. Given this, why is math the most used skill in our every day life, aside from communication? If you don't believe me try and go a whole day without using the most basic skills of math, adding one a.k.a. counting. I bet you will have as much of a chance of that as not talking that day.
Doing math has become part of our nature. We do simple comparison of numbers every day. At work you are waiting for the clock to turn to that magical time when you get to leave. You look at the time and calculate that you have 30 minutes until you get off of work. A little bit later you check again and and now you have 24 minutes. After this realization you exclaim in agony, "It has only been 6 minutes!? It has felt much longer, at least 15 or even 10 minutes." Without realizing it you just did subtraction.
So this is just an intro to the skill that will greatly bless your life, which you might hate, called math. I hope to show you ways to make math fun and help you move beyond having to do it, to enjoying to do it.
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