My 10-year-old daughter and I have been at odds over her math.  She has convinced herself that she hates it and has become extremely rebellious when it comes to doing the work the way it should be done.  She is trying to take shortcuts that don’t result in the correct answer and insisting that the work can be done in her head.  She doesn’t like to use more than one page of her notebook for the work and I can’t understand why this has to be an issue.  She knows we have enough paper to last a lifetime. She is a very bright child who doesn’t have to put a lot of effort into learning her other subjects, but when it comes to math she has placed an emotional stumbling block in her own way.  “It’s going to take all day to do it.  I’m never going to need this.  The book is wrong, I did it right.  I hate math.”  I have heard these statements too many times to count.  Even when we play games or make it hands-on she has the same attitude. Being the independent person that she is, she doesn’t like me to help her when I see her having a problem.  That’s when patience runs thin and emotions run high.  Funny thing is that after she (and I) has had an emotional meltdown, we work together like business partners and the problems are done, understood and completed in no time at all. I am searching for a way to tame her temperament and to remove that awful ‘I hate math’ stumbling block.   Any ideas?