When it comes to the academic study of math that all students working their way through their elementary or secondary education must have, it is easy to start to wonder if there is a law somewhere that math lessons have to be boring and dry.  While there really is no academic requirement for math to be a subject that kills the soul while educating the mind, in many public and even private school situations, math is one of the topics that becomes an ordeal for students to get through.

It doesn't have to be this way.  Much of how the students feel about math comes from the instructor.  Any real math enthusiast would take extreme offense at the very idea that math is boring. If the Read the rest of this entry »