I understand it better now that I have to teach and reteach and reteach it to my special ed students.

I needed an option between the top two on the first question! I picked the lower one so as not to sound like an egotist. :)

I'm very good at it, but I wouldn't call myself a genius!

I'm the product of the Boston public school system. So I really suck at math...

So I am really, really terrible at math, feared it when I was at school, and I'm married to a math genius. We pretty much define "opposites attract."

Anyway, even though I suck at math, I'm fascinated by it. One of my upcoming books involves a protagonist who does magic with math, something like chaos theory or the mathematical relatedness of things. The math is more metaphor than actual math, but he's also very good at actual math. As I'm developing the magic system I'm having to consult the physicist in the house.

And really, physics at a certain level is sort of like magic...

I seem to get confused by it a lot, and it makes me feel stupid so I avoid it, which is a kind of vicious cycle. I've taken a couple of basic math courses and read books to try to improve, but it's a struggle for me. It seriously feels like there's a hole in my brain where the facility for numbers should be. Words are much easier. A sudoku grid gives me a headache where a Scrabble board makes me purr.

Someone once commented that I am very logical, so they were surprised that I wasn't good at math, and when I took a math assessment test where they used colors instead of numbers I scored "very superior", but I couldn't add and subtract accurately. Crazy.

Like Sarah above I'm married to a math genius. :)

I despise math. Plain and simple. I mean, how the HECK am I supposed to figure out what x + y = z means when there are no actual numbers involved in that equation??? ;-)

I mostly don't regret the thing where I didn't learn to study until my senior year of high school. I did okay.

But I do kind of wish I could go back and do those math classes again, now that I have the tools to do better at them. I think math is _so cool._ I just wasn't equipped at the time to really take it on board.

Hardly a genius: anything past the first term of frosh math, bzzt. But well, technical education, so I'm not sure where single-dimensional calculus falls with other college's math requirements. (2nd term: multi-dimensional calculus; sophomore year, linear algebra for a term; junior year, intro to discrete mathematics (counting, probability, group theory) for a term. I may have squeaked a B in linear algebra but I doubt it; I know I barely passed discrete math.)

I think it's really, really awesome. :)

I'm good at math- and enjoy using it to *do* stuff - i mean math is what you use to build things, or make clothes and so many things - but I know there were points I disliked it and it was invariably from the way teachers taught it. A lot of people who think they're bad at math aren't - they just don't think about how much they use it.

Also couldn't ticky the genius button because I thought that a very small percentage of the population term.

My biggest problem with math - and for that matter school in general - is that I have a very difficult time learning some thing I can't apply. I took algebra twice, had poor teachers both times, which gave me a poor foundation to learn everything based on it. Forget calculus - I never got that far.

BUT, geometry, I can wrap my brain around. I was pretty good at pool back in the day. Today I can still figure out what I want to do - I just lack the skill and practice to actually pull off the shot! When I was into model rocketry, I was able to calculate how high my rockets went using trigonometry. I was able to understand those concepts because I could apply them to real life. And I am rather good at basic math that I use on a regular basis. But don't even ask me to explain sines and cosines - I haven't used them in years!

On the first question: I think I fall into the vast space between "genius" and "have to work at it." I'm good at it, but I'm not a genius.