I've never been good at math. Mostly caused by a lack of effort on my part. I never had a teacher in school that could reach me on the importance of math in my life. I never expected to be an engineer so I thought that mathematics/liberal arts math was enough for me. I was always content to do the minimum in math since I was in the tenth grade in Ms. Demonbrun's (crazy name, right?) Algebra class. She would belittle students if they made wrong answers or suggested the wrong way to answer a problem in class. This type of "teaching" made me shut down and all I would do in her class was read. Eventually, it got to the point where she wouldn't even pass the work to me because she knew that I wasn't going to do it. Nothing changed in college. I never needed to take a high math for my major so I didn't. Recently I have felt like I let an opportunity to understand an important part of the world had slipped by me. So I purchased the book pictured and have been trying to go through a chapter everyday. The work has not been easy for me and I have had to ask for help from my wife, who incidentally went up to Calculus. There is a big test at the end of the book and I think that I will be able to slay that dragon in the next week. I'll probably have to go through the book twice before I can do all of the problems in the test.
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