How did your past experiences affect your attitudes toward math in general?

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Whether because of a poor elementary and middle school math curriculum or because of my own inaptitude, I barely passed third year high school math -- advanced algebra and solid geometry. I haven't taken any math since then(except a statistics for dummies in grad school). Therefore, my math skills seem to have plateaued at about middle school level.

But I like basic math and have used it a lot for many reasons in the 50 years since my disastrous high school math class.

But I don't think you can use my experiences for this assignment.

What are YOUR experiences and how have they shaped YOUR attitudes toward math?
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