Childhood memories
Two books I've read recently have encouraged me to investigate my memories from childhood. In Tracy Zager's "Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had", she urged me to think about my maths autobiography to see what influenced my current feelings about maths. In Stuart Brown's "Play", he urged me to think about my play history to see what influenced my current feelings and tendencies about play. In the spirit of those two, here are some of my earliest memories about maths and play.
In primary school, I have very few memories of actually being in a maths class, and all of them are negative. I've related two of them already in this blog. One was my memory of doing a maths assignment about one million dollars, where the financial aspect distressed me to tears. Another was my memory of my Year 6 teacher attempting to