Symptoms of Math Anxiety- Sheila Tobias

In the excerpt Symptoms of Math Anxiety by Shiela Tobias, talks about the struggles many people face with Math. She talks about the many myths thats comes with students and how some people are born with knowing how to solving math problem. Tobias points out many problems especially the myth among Americans that math ability is inborn. I actually disagree with that statement. If you compare two children, one that has a natural understanding for math and one that struggles to understand math, you will find that the one who naturally understands math started learning how to add and subtract by the time they were three years old compared to the on that struggles. Math is not in my opinion an inborn ability. You cannot just wake up one morning and say you know the formula to cure cancer. It takes hard work and practice if you want to master anything especially math. I began learning how to add and subtract at the age of three. I knew my multiplications table by the age of 7 because my father was an Electrical Engineer who loved math. His way of teaching math was very harsh, but it's help me grasp math on another level compared to other people. In order to master not just math but any other subject you have to work hard, no one is inborn with anything expect for the rate of how fast you can learn things.