When she was small, Chao was not very studious, and she frequently came close to failing her math exams. Her mother therefore asked her teacher to call upon her in class every day to do math drills. Chao had little choice but to keep at her mother to teach her, and unwittingly she developed a real interest in the subject.
趙揚清把這歸功於數學和化學特別好的母親，原來小時趙揚清一度很不用功，數學常常在及格邊緣，母親於是要求老師天天叫她上台「表演」數學，趙揚清只好每天纏著媽媽教，不知不覺地興趣就培養出來了。