I am not a math person and I never liked algebra much at all. All the big problems were like a miserable wall of mini-calculations and were so much work for me. I loved geometry and did very well at it. Everything made sense and there wasn't a whole lot of calculating to do. I also loved chemistry classes even though there was a lot of math. It made more sense and was more about knowing how and why formulas work than solving a wall of needlessly difficult math problems. I also still count on my fingers to add and subtract and have to skip count to remember much of the multiplication table, so math has always been really hard work for me. DS seems to be great at all areas of math, but at 6 he hasn't done much algebra yet. His dad is also equally happy with pretty much anything math related, when I asked him he couldn't really choose between algebra and geometry.
