Why Is Math So Hard for Kids? (It's How We Teach It)

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

Ruth Rinaldi got through a maths degree without knowing her seven times table. She went on to run the maths department at a UK secondary school, then left the system, and today she has done no formal written math with her own two kids, ages 7 and nearly 10.She tells Ela Bass why math feels so hard for so many kids: not the subject itself, but how it's taught, with timed tests, right-or-wrong marking and rules handed out before anyone understands them. She also explains how math anxiety passes from parent to child, why stress crowds out working memory, and...