I thought so too. I failed math in High school so often they put me in Special Ed math. I finished my College degree just before I turned 40. I became good at math when a college professor taught it like mechanics. I learned math is actually hands on, visual, and makes mechanical sense. I will never remember equations, but I can understand that pie is actually the relationship between the radius and the circumference of a circle (3.14 times the radius is the outer diameter of a circle). I went from (he is too stupid for math... to an A in calculus! Check out this site. I use it in my teaching. Pay attention to the videos and evidence. Jo Boaler really did take inner city kids from doing horrible, to learning at a high level... you can do it!