Stop telling kids you’re bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety ‘like a virus.’

[whatthehey]

1. The corporate world is not immune

I am in meetings regularly where just about everyone is either an engineer, an MBA or both. At some point then they simply must have had pretty solid mastery of math to at least calculus level. But I've lost count of the times I've had to go over simple concepts like correlation or standard deviation to explain issues to them. It seems like once outside the classroom, even the engineers forget about and dismiss any math not directly tied to their specialty, which is a bit ironic because I stayed away from engineering because I couldn't handle the math myself.