From the article: "No wonder people easily dislike mathematics, who would want to add so many numbers?"

But that's not mathematics, that's arithmetic. This may seem like arid pedantry, except that many people are exposed to this kind of bonehead arithmetic in elementary school and think that's all there is to mathematics. That's a shame, and a correctable error.

Mathematics isn't "2 plus 2 equals 4". Mathematics is Avatar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ

Mathematics is hitting a target on Mars, within a new meters, after eight months of travel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGMDXy-Y1I

Mathematics is beauty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

I wish people could be taught mathematics before arithmetic, not after. But this contradicts centuries of scholastic tradition.