When Ryan Farr was in middle school, he was pulled out of his classroom by his math teacher. The reason? His parents were going through a divorce, and he’d forgotten his math workbook at the wrong house.
“She told me, ‘I don’t care if your parents are getting divorced. That’s not an excuse for you to not bring your math book.’” Farr said. “From middle school on then, I had a really bad taste in my mouth for math.”
Growing up, Farr’s school experience was filled with long lectures and “boring” teachers. The shapes and equations that built up throughout high school didn’t click in his brain, and he constantly counted down the minutes until class ended. It wasn’t until college that his perspective on math began to shift…