For myself, I found math difficult.  Never understood, even now, the need to spend so much time memorizing multiplication tables.<p>That said, I started over in a community college, and finished up to trig. with ease.  I found trigonometry, surprisingly straight forward.  I went on to finish a year of physics.  I didn&#x27;t need calculus for my major, and heard it was really hard.  Plus, I didn&#x27;t want to ruin my grade point average with a class I didn&#x27;t need.  I now regret not taking calculus, but it&#x27;s so much easier to learn something these days.<p>My struggle with math was two fold.  I didn&#x27;t care in high school, and I never had a firm grasp on basic math.  I look back , and once I truly inderstood basic math, especially fractions, and percentages; it all became so easy.<p>I see a lot of kids still struggling with math.  They get pushed along, and avoid any class that has math in it.  I do blame our U.S. teaching system in this case.  Keep teaching basic math until the kid can teach it to to their classmates.<p>Then, and only then move on to algebra, and trig?  As to calculus, I didn&#x27;t take it so I won&#x27;t comment, but when I was applying to health professional schools, I didn&#x27;t find one that required Calculus.  Probally for good reason.  My physics classmates biggest, silent stumbling block was they were horrid in math, and looking back--they just didn&#x27;t know the basics, so every step up the ladder became more mysterious.  Most of my classmates seemed to the solving problems in physics by memorizing the homework; not truly understanding the problems.