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[quote=Anonymous]Some of the low income immigrant communities have children involved in helping with family work/business from a young age, which actually helps develop math skills — even if it’s just pretending to help mom make change or helping dad measure something out.  My own father, who was an engineer, was the child of immigrants and helped in his parents work basically as soon as he could speak and walk.  There’s lots of fun ways to learn math as a child if you build it into their daily life (dividing up cookies, figuring out how long until dinner, how many eggs in the recipe, etc.).

My kid loved math and there was a really fun after school program that she did after K.  Sadly, we couldn’t find enough interested families-even if our UMC neighborhood—to support even one group, so they didn’t offer it in future years and the whole program (a non profit founded by Stanford grads) collapsed a few years later.    Music, dance, sports (which are all great) all filled up.  There is definitely a social prejudice against math for most Americans.

I’d actually be curious in seeing how many generations it takes before Asian-Americans are just as bad as the rest of us.  [/quote]

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