People hate math because of pre-formed ideas. You go to school, fall in love with the rebel in the leather jacket, skip classes when you can, and hate math. It's in every high school movie. Kids go to school, prepared to be confused and overwhelmed by math. It's a horrible stigma, like Americans being fat and stupid, the Land of the Free needs to get rid of.
Personally, I dont like math. Or, at least I used to. When i was smaller, I never understood the concepts or what I was supposed to being doing. No one ever explained to me what math was, or why it was even necessary in m y everyday life. At first, I thought I needed to know math only to get a good score on the SAT. However, after middle school, i realized that wasn't the only reason. We need it to function, and believe it or not, math applied in the right ways can make life easier.
Artists-the good ones-feel, experience, and observe things that have never even occured to other people. Artists are able to package their different point of views in ways that entrance us, entertain us. Math is in every form of art- dance, painting, sculpture, music, even theatre. Math is just another element artists can harness to explain the world they see, the expressions they feel, the things they observe. Art is not always math, but math is always art.
Mathematics, I feel, has been put on the back burner in math education. People are always pushing literature and reading, and while those subjects are important, I think math holds equal ground. Having a solid foundation is incredibly important. One cann
ot learn algerbra without understand simple addition. I went to a montesorri school from Pre-K to Third grade. For math concepts, I used tangible objects to represent the symbols on paper. For someone like me who is not visually-oriented at all, having actual objects helped me develop an understanding of math. I think if all kids had montesorri education for the early stages of math, it would help them grasp the concepts of simple mathematics.
ot learn algerbra without understand simple addition. I went to a montesorri school from Pre-K to Third grade. For math concepts, I used tangible objects to represent the symbols on paper. For someone like me who is not visually-oriented at all, having actual objects helped me develop an understanding of math. I think if all kids had montesorri education for the early stages of math, it would help them grasp the concepts of simple mathematics. 
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