There are two types of individuals when it comes to math: those who dislike it and those who lie. Jokes aside, a lot of us can recall.
All the subjects we didn’t really love in high school. And math class seems to be the lesson that still triggers dreadful memories for a lot of people.
But a professor has developed a hypothesis that explains why many individuals nowadays, even as adults, really dislike math and, therefore, aren’t very good at it.
Equity concerns in mathematics are the subject of study of Viveka Vaughn, an associate professor in the mathematics department at Spelman College in Georgia.
She explained what she refers to as “math trauma” in an essay and why it affects more individuals than you may imagine. What does’math trauma’ mean?