A little girl was failing math. Her mother enrolled her in Catholic school in the hopes to improve her math grades. During the first marking period, her mother noticed a dramatic improvement in her math studies. The girl would refuse playing with friends and eating dessert after dinner in order to study more. On report card day, her mother was astonished to see that her daughter got an A+ in math. She asked her daughter, “Why the sudden change of attitude about math—do the nuns punish you?” The girl replied, “No, but when I saw the little man on the wall nailed to the plus sign, I knew that this school is very serious about math!”
一個小姑娘數(shù)學不好。她媽媽把她轉學到一所天主教學校,希望她的數(shù)學有進步。就在第一個評分階段,她的數(shù)學學習就有了很大進步。為了能學得更多,她不去和小朋友玩,也不吃飯后的甜食。發(fā)成績報告單的時候,她媽媽驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn)她的數(shù)學得了A+。她的媽媽問她:“為什么你學習數(shù)學的態(tài)度有了這么大的轉變?是不是修女們懲罰你們?”小姑娘回答說:“不是。不過當我看見墻上那個小男人被釘在加號上面,我知道這所學校對數(shù)學是絕不馬虎的?!?