Why Do So Many Smart and Gifted Kids Think They Don't Like Math?

It may have something to do with the different personality types between the teachers and some students.

My closest girlfriend since grade school became a math teacher. To her, math was great and made sense. Our IQs and basic standardized test results are virtually the same. 

To me, math was a problem for a long time. I wasn’t terrible, but some of my school years of math instruction, it simply didn’t work for me. I went on to teach elementary school and fo…