I am currently in carrier transition stage.  As part of my carrier change I am required to get a certification.  When my RE Investment Analysis class started I freaked out, I graduated college six years ago and needed some adjustment. However, I quickly realized that all the formulas professor was going through in class were remotely familiar to me. By the end of the class my faint memory of Algebra was back and functioning to its capacity. I even thought to my self that if my son will ever say “when in the world would I ever use Algebra?”, I would answer “RE Investment Analysis”.

Today I came across an article http://blogs.babycenter.com/momformation/2009/06/07/girls-and-math-dont-blame-biology/comment-page-1/#comment-2437625  where the author was asking the same type of question.

My husband and I always fight over this topic, he is a historian by nature and I’m more about logic and math. He thinks that it is more important to know history and geography, which I agree to be very important topics. But math in my opinion is more then that, Math is a way of thinking.  Understanding Math is not about learning facts or remembering dates it’s about understanding how things work and why.

I’m very thankful that my parents spend the time on helping me develop my math skills. I believe that thanks to math I’m a much better analyzer of not only math but life situations and problems in general. Which is why I think math is an important topic to teach your kid and not dismiss it as “a boy’s thing”. 

I may not know the capital of Madagascar (Antananarivo thank you Wikipedia) but I am able to manage any size of business venture.

So check out the article and add your response to what you think about Math.

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