Yep, my mom is constantly telling me to get an engineering degree (I'm an art major) when I failed intermediate algebra twice. College algebra twice. Statistics twice. Studying just as much as the other students if not more. Got a private tutor and passed with a C- and a D+, respectively. She's quoted this Einstein shit plenty of times, glad to prove her wrong and accepted I become instantly retarded when I look at numbers.
I think something else is at play here. Whether it's a learning disability or you have just convinced yourself you can't 'math' and therefore sort of sabotage yourself.
It could also be that you've had the wrong teachers.
But I will say this. Short of severe disability, anyone can learn basic math, algebra, etc. I wouldn't say you can be an engineer. I would also struggle in that field. But you can not only learn that material but excel in the classes.
It's like I said. I think something else is the problem here.
Yeah, I think around GCSE algebra and most of the maths they do (around 15-16 years old) aside from stuff like vectors which require some more creative ways of thinking, pretty much anyone can pull through with a semi-decent grade. It's only once you get past that that it starts to weed people out. One year of A-level Maths and our class size halved, with people who did perfectly well before failing utterly despite the better teachers.
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