Nintendo: Kids don't like math. We checked

Well, that sucks. I liked math.

Doesn't surprise me that math is generally disliked. However, no matter what you plan to do in life it will come back to math. The one type of math that should honestly be taught universally is financial.

people who are geniuses at math, just know how to do math, without breaking, a sweat, math is boring as hell, but math and science is the key to unlocking the world's secrets, at least everyone should know basic math, unless you are planning to be a scientist of some sort you should learn really advance math, and when you have the previous generation keeps telling the next generation is boring, what do you think is going to happen.

I'm in Advanced Math, and even I think it's pretty darn boring.
:/

I blame math education.

It tends to be very bad.

I think the torture math these kids are referring to would be "algebra" which is likely totally different from what this math game teaches.

someone should ban algebra. who cares what n equals? N ISNT EVEN A NUMBER!

Forget this article. I might just watch Goodwill Hunting yet again tonight. Forget homework and responsibilities. Thanks DS Fanboy!

> 13% called it "torture"

hey, it's only 13% kids who really get math!!!

Reality is rather simple. To quote my versity teachers, math is here only to train my brain. Whether I want to make the effort - is up to me. But with well trained brains I can simply accomplish more in my life. (OK, they've blatantly lied)

Have to link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

I don't think it's so much the math itself that kids dislike, but more the manner in which it is presented to them.

For example, I myself already had a basic understanding of algebra and variables even as far back as the second grade. But not because I learned it formally. Instead, I learned it out of interest in watching my father program his own games on a radio shack TRS-80 MC-10 during the early 80s. I eventually managed to learn enough about it to design a game of my own featuring a dot chasing a computer-controlled dot on screen.

This could still work today, but now it seems latching onto the popular culture is more effective. One area in particular are the card trading games like the YuGiOh series. Without a basic understanding of math and its transitive properties, such games are nearly impossible to play.

Likewise though, with our schools being so under-funded these days, they really can't experiment with such methods to verify this too well.