when i was in third grade, i brought home some difficult math homework and asked my (math-challenged) mom for help with it. after struggling with the "bonus" question at the end she got confused and started writing down letters, x and y. i got mad and protested that letters werent allowed in math. she told me it was algebra, which i figured was a speicial secret grownup code that gave them a short cut to difficult math problems. when i took algebra in high school, i was even more mystified by it.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that 7 times 12 was equal to 83 or 84, depending on the math problem.— Eric Swensen
- My dream was to be a dad when I grew up, which would provew to be difficult seeing as i am a girl.Anon
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS