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kids are gowing up faster and faster (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Give it a few years, they’ll be picking it up in middle school at least

My daughter has been scoring very high in math this year in fifth grade so they wanted to give her more advanced stuff to do, like moving into basic statistics. She isn’t having any of it though, she hates math and gets terrible anxiety from it. She just wants to sculpt and make puppets instead. Can’t say I blame her, I was the same way.

…yet I’d cherish a job where I’d just spend all day futzing around in R

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

I always got straight A in maths in high school but never like it, when graduate went to film school and after a couple of years working on TV and films I got tired of the bad pay, the job insecurity and the constant need of networking to catch projects. So I decided to look inside into coming back to college not for something I liked but for something I'm good at, and got myself a degree in actuarial sciences. I miss being able to smoke weed while on the job, but the pay is way better, there's always a job lined up if I get tired of my job and at the end, I learned to enjoy maths and to solve problems.

Maybe if you show her all the beautiful mathematic graphics and functional 3d models, you can show her that she cN learn to love something that she's naturally good at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

R is great for visualizations and also has some neat tools for building websites, interactive figures/maps, web apps, and stuff like that. So a lot of sculpting potential in R, if she manages to get into it far enough.