Math. It’s your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real “aptitude” for math, but all you got in the end was a B minus. The truth is you weren’t even trying. But then you got low Cs and Ds in all your other classes and you weren’t trying there, either, so maybe you are good at math after all. You like it because either you’re right or you’re wrong. Not like social studies and definitely not like English, where you always have to explain your answers and support your opinions. With math it’s right or it’s wrong and you’re done with it. But even that’s changing, my teacher said now you have to explain how you solved the problem and support your answer, saying that having the right answer isn’t as important as explaining how you got it and bam, just like that, you hate math. . Charles Benoit
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Math is like a piece of clay that you can sculpt into any shape. You get the clay and you shape it into the form that you want it to be. The more you use it, the better you get at doing it. Math also means that if something doesn’t turn out the way you wanted it to, you try again and make it better.

You make mistakes and learn from them. Math is like a factory. You get raw material and process it into something new, something different; and this new thing is what makes math so exciting.

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