Carbohydrates increase my blood sugar level, so every snack and meal is a maths challenge, requiring me to calculate how much insulin I need to inject to counteract the spike in my blood sugars.
Two thirds of the student body enter the Maths Challenge competition, and the mathematics department also runs a regular maths help club.
I've always loved maths, and the challenge of making sense of a chaotic world through the clarity of numbers.
Her results in the IQ test, which asks readers to solve word analogies, logic problems, memory challenges and maths-type questions, placed her at 162 - the highest possible score.
In a maths lesson pupils were "insufficiently challenged" and spent most of the 55 minutes cutting out and pasting shapes and "learned little that was mathematical".
It teaches me to be prepared for challenges and how important maths is because I have to count money when I sell my product.
So children, intelligent and wily creatures that they are, will do their damnedest to avoid the difficult thinking and challenges involved in attending maths lessons.
Maybe getting on top of maths could be her next big challenge.
Sitting down to do maths homework is already an uphill challenge, especially when the questions are flummoxing.
