Lin Fu-lai holds that children start to resist math in fifth and sixth grade because both teachers and parents believe that their children have already grown up, and that sooner or later they are going to have to face joint entrance exams to further their studies. They want their children to have more math practice, but the result is that it ends up "spoiling their mathematical appetite."
林福來認為，如今小孩到了國小高年級階段就開始抗拒數學，是因為不管老師家長都想到孩子已經長大了，遲早要面臨升學考試，於是便「期望」孩子多演練數學，造成孩子對數學學習「倒胃口」。