For years, I thought I just wasn't a "maths person." Then my maths teacher asked me a question that changed everything.
For as long as I can remember, mathematics felt like a closed door. My older cousins told me I would never do well in math, because no one in my family ever did. I believed them
The question that changed it
One afternoon at the library, Mr. Tunde asked me, very simply: "What do you actually see when I show you this equation?" Nobody had ever asked me that before. I told him the truth — that I saw nothing, just letters pretending to be numbers.
He didn't laugh. He drew a picture.
He drew three baskets of mangoes on the board. Suddenly, the equation was about the market. Suddenly, it was mine.
What changed
I'm not the best in my class yet. But last term I came fourth in maths, and the boys who I used to copy from now ask me questions. I want to be an engineer one day. I think I will be.
