Remember that Bao Wenjing often went to hot search because he was not good at math?

It's not that you often fail in advanced mathematics, but … it's totally "bad".

In The Temptation of Dinner, Bao Wenjing mentioned that her husband Bao Beier likes simplicity. Cai Kangyong, the host, casually asked a fairly simple elementary math question: "What is 23 plus 4?"

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Bao Wenjing covered her head and said, "I don't know what 1 plus 4 is!" "

Unwilling to believe it, Cai Kangyong went on to write an elementary school-level application question: "So if you bought something from 27 yuan and you gave it to the shop assistant 30 yuan, don't you know how much he should give you?"

Simple Bao Wenjing said, "I believe no one will lie to me."

When this language came out, the audience was shocked; When the video came out, the whole network was shocked. Many netizens said that they could not accept an adult who had received nine-year compulsory education and went to college. Math can be so bad.

Soon after, Bao Wenjing said that poor math is actually just the effect of the program. In fact, his math is ok: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within ten are no problem! More than ten, break it and crush it slowly!

Many netizens have suspected that Bao Wenjing's low computing ability is just an operation set by people to highlight the simple features mentioned above and create a lovely attribute. Poor math, especially for girls, seems to be a very excusable and natural thing, and it can even add "cuteness".

The question is, are girls born poor at math?

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There are indeed many girls who can't learn math well, such as me.

My high school deskmate who was in the same boat with me.

The deepest unbreakable friendship between us began with a test that we both failed. On that day, the math teacher walked into the classroom with a heavy face and told us bitterly that the average score of math in our class should be fairly good, and the high score in the high section was unusually brilliant, even with several full marks. It happens that those with lower segments are better in number. Speaking of which, the teacher gave me a sad look at my deskmate. My deskmate and I both panicked and listened to the teacher's analysis of why the math scores in this class were at the bottom-because too many people failed.

There are two of us.

My deskmate and I looked at each other with test papers with poor scores. The score of the test paper is heartbreaking, but the analysis of the test paper is a headache. At that time, the math teacher was already a famous teacher with many years of educational experience, but even when he explained the so-called "sending sub-questions" to us, we seemed to witness a high-speed transition from single-celled organisms to Homo erectus to five minutes. Its shock, fear, confusion, surprise and incomprehension are no less than the subversion of the world outlook.

When I came home and showed my mother the test paper, it was easy to forgive my poor math performance. Mom just sighed and said that you should try not to let math hold you back too much.

"I used to be bad at math, and girls may be worse in this respect." Mom finally added this sentence.

Although the math teacher is quite dissatisfied with my poor math, which leads to the low average score in the class, all she can do seems to be to reluctantly accept it and just make me work harder. Other boys who are not good at math are treated much worse, and they are severely questioned by the teacher: "How can you not learn math well as a boy?" What do you do in math class? "

I am also very happy to live under the golden bell of "girls are not good at math". Under this impregnable protection, I don't have to go out to conquer mathematics, and mathematics should not enter my world; Give me both the bottom and the top.

I no longer try to entangle those tangled symbols and numbers, because my math is "inherently bad". When the next exam results come out, the scores once again confirm this point. My math is "really poor", and those boys have really made great progress and returned to the "normal level" after "serious classes".

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Looking back now, I have been immersed in the learned helplessness of mathematics.

Carol Devick, a researcher in the field of emotional development at the University of Illinois in the United States, pointed out in a study that in the face of criticism from teachers and peers, the criticism faced by girls is more permanent and universal, and the problems are blamed on problems that they cannot get rid of, such as lack of talent or poor ability; Boys are temporarily criticized, such as "you didn't pay attention".

As a result, children who blame adversity on stable factors learn much less than those who blame temporary factors. Because helpless children focus on the causes of failure, such as lack of ability, while controlled children focus on remedy. At that time, my attitude towards mathematics was "giving up".

"Girls can't learn math well" is not confined to China, and girls all over the world seem to be worried about it. More unfortunately, girls are not only hit by mathematics in a wide range, but also much earlier than we thought. In their childhood, even when they were very young, their parents had already planted bad seeds for them in mathematics.

Catherine T.Amelink, a researcher, found through investigation that girls' interest and attitude towards mathematics are by no means inherently weaker than boys'. Before middle school, boys and girls showed the same enthusiasm and interest in mathematics, but after middle school, the percentage of girls who were not interested in mathematics soared from 9% to 50%.

In the first stage of a girl's life, parents' and society's prejudice against girls' mathematical ability has begun to hinder the development of girls' mathematical potential. They even vaguely told the girl, "Math is not your strong suit."

In the book "The Language of Parents", the author Dr. Saskind wrote: When your self-image is a "person with poor math scores", you will face difficulties in learning math. She reveals the vocabulary that parents use when communicating with their children, which has a decisive influence on the development of their children's brains. A study on mothers found that daughters under the age of two received half as much math discussion as sons, and one-third as much discussion on basic figures as boys.

In addition, in the face of actual math scores, mothers have always overestimated their sons' math ability and underestimated their daughters' math ability. Mothers are also more inclined to let their sons participate in mathematics activities, thus increasing their sons' participation and interest in mathematics.

Unfortunately, I was right in her research. In mathematics knowledge, the contact that children should get, the fun that children should enjoy and the encouragement that teenagers should accept are all missing. So far, an example of "girls are born with poor math" has been born. I naturally inherited my anxiety, anxiety, inferiority and avoidance of mathematics from my mother and then carried it forward.

I have never appreciated the beauty of mathematics. I was extremely resistant to numbers when I was a child. When I grow up, even if I vaguely realize that mathematics is a subject full of endless fun and exploration, I can't really feel the mystery of alpha dog algorithm.

"Most people like math, but the problem is that many people don't understand this subject." The author of Everything Matters says so. If you have never seriously tried to understand, how can you not be good at it and hate it?

I think I need to give math and myself a second chance.

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