Hi felicia0923,

I hope I can shine some light into this issue. A lot of time we tend to groan and moan about doing something because we are not motivated to do it. We don't know the reason why and the importance of learning a particular subject. Growing up, I constantly heard, why would I ever need to use this kind of math ever again. Those kids tend to hate math and tune out. It actually became a vicious loosing cycle. Once they became unmotivated they tuned school out because they tuned school out school became hard because they started to fall behind. Just like Game Theory, we all need to little reward here and there to feel good. That said, because it was near impossible to get a good grade for these kids the motivation never came back to try hard and they ended up hating school. As for me, my dad was an engineer so he told me the importance of what I was learning and showed me math existed in every object. I was always motivated to learn and stay on top of it so as a result I liked school.