My Experience with Math

Concerning the readings and the presentation in this week, there are several interesting elements. For instance, according to the Introduction Pointcast, Math begins with an attitude. How well one does in math is partially dependent on the mentality that he or she approaches Math. In addition, according to the pointcast, Math anxiety is a real and hurtful factor with individuals who fear math. Whenever math anxiety happens, take deep breaths, roll shoulders, and relax. Afterward, continue completing the math assignment. Furthermore, math requires diligence. According to his article, "Math Anxiety," Deb Russell provided six points that can aid in overcoming math anxiety. His first point is similar to a point that the Introduction Pointcast mentioned:

There are many subjects that I enjoy in school, but the one topic that stands out to me remarkably is mathematics. There are numerous measures in which analytical skills have helped and influenced me in life. One of the many ways math changed me was when I started community service. Another way it helped me is the way I look at other courses I currently partake. Lastly, math influenced me to study the analytic ways of it further in college.

As soon as I walked into the building that my class was at, I started to get a little more nervous because I didn’t want to walk in a wrong class room. When I got to the classroom door outside I open it and walked in. Minutes later I realized I was in the wrong class room. I walked back outside, I re-read the number and walked a different way. After walking in the wrong class room gave me even more fear because I didn’t want to repeat the same situation again. All that reminded me back in high school going in the wrong class as well. The fear of having it happened twice gave me fear to go to my other classes because I didn’t want it to repeat again. All this fear was now coming in stronger but had to get

Today’s expectations are higher than when our parents were in school. Calculus, for example, was considered a college class. Today, colleges expect students to have finished calculus before they apply to college with intent to prove that they can handle higher level classes.

After all, math was one of my best subjects. I had never really had an experience where I just couldn't understand the concept of a math problem, of how it was solved and why. Our teachers has warned us back in elementary school, that one day we would hit an invisible wall and not ease through classes. That one day we would struggle with understanding a problem, a concept or even a subject. I had never believed them, thinking this would never happen to me, that I could somehow avoid this wall of confusion and just walk right through. But there I was, utterly confused and frustrated at a simple problem that everyone else could solve. Why was I not seeing it? Why couldn't I understand the solution? I asked myself. For the first time in my life I really struggled to get an A in a class. I had my sister tutor me almost every day, preparing for a quiz and then the next, and the next. I came in to my teacher for lunch and he helped me step by step. I studied for tests, and worked hard. And my work payed off. I got a high A in the course, and a lot of experience from it. It taught me how to work hard for something, to earn a good grade when you deserve it, and it gave me the skills I needed to get As in the high school classes I am taking this

Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process.

Paul Tough created a experiment to see how teaching and showing these student different skills can teach them how to deal with hard event that happen.“Those students often misinterpret temporary setbacks as a permanent indication that they can’t succeed or don’t belong at U.T. For those students, the intervention can work as a kind of inoculation. And when, six months or two years later, the germs of self doubt try to infect them, the lingering effect of the intervention allows them to shrug off those doubts exactly the way the advantaged students do”(Tough 10). Tough has helped these student by showing they a new and improved way to deal with problems that are foreign to them. The interventions have help replace negative internal doubtful thought with positive thoughts. This one external factor changed them for the better when it came to their mindset. “Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students’ minds — replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren’t that easy to persuade. But Yeager believes that the interventions are not in fact changing students’ minds — they are simply keeping them from overinterpreting discouraging events that might happen in the future”(Tough 8). The experiment was to improve their thinking and to help them deal with big problems, that are actually very small and fixable. Not to make them into someone different, but to show them a different way. This external factor helped many students to deal with thing that pose threats to them finishing

Educational fears haunt me in every way imaginable and I will tell you why. One example of this is failing at learning something new like swimming, driving a car, learning how to play a sport. Other examples of this are failing at getting a job, being bad at a job, or failing a job interview. My last examples this are failing at passing a class, not going to a university, or not knowing what to do after college. I will now talk about why failing at learning something is a fear of mine.

After thought, I remembered my poor fifth grade math performance and thought about why I did better in the years after. I falsely concluded that I became more hardworking and proceeded to apply that solution to my present problem. I attended as many after-school study sessions as I could, and did every question in the book. On a few occasions I even found more online resources that could help me evaluate my knowledge and increase it. The culmination of my efforts succeeded, even though they were based on a false assumption. I had grown as a

Mathematics anxiety has been studies for the past “50 years” (McMahon 2015), because it is a problem that affect many Americans. With all of the studies done, there is still much to be known about it and its effect on students. Mathematics anxiety has been defined by Vahedi and Farrokhi (2011) as “negative cognitions, avoidance behaviors, and feeling pressured and inadequate in performance that combined interfere with solving math

Growing up parents expect the most out of their children, but in some situations I felt like my highest standards were my own. Never had I experienced such distress and isolation as I did in my 8th grade algebra 2 class. I knew myself, and I had always been the type of student to adapt quickly and learn information easily, but when the time came for graphing these impossible functions or solving inequalities with irrational numbers I felt the start of a heavy journey. Not only did I have to worry about myself and how well I could do on the tests that would be fundamental for my gpa, but I also had to overcome feeling like a burden to the rest of my class who seemed as if they were strolling down the park with no worry. Thankfully, one of my math teachers noticed my struggle and offered extra help leading me to spend time after school for tutoring. During those tutoring sessions all I thought about was moving forward with each math standard that came along the way.

The first symbol represents my passion for fitness and developing a better body through the hard work and dedication. It represents my all going drive to want to help others change and reach their potential, that truly is my dream and goal. Change lives one by one, one training session at a time and be able to hit a global reach to people across the world. One day I will be able to make a global impact on people to want to change their lives physically and mentally and I will fulfil that task simply because of my passion for it.

This story begins with an 8th grader named Michael who gets very anxious and nervous about tests. Math is not Michael’s expertise, and he is in fact, very second-rate at math. What’s particularly disturbing is that his math finals are tomorrow. Because he is very unskilled at math, he is really jumpy about the test. Michael knows that if he does not study for the test and develop a understanding of his troubling subject, he is going to fail the test. Michael’s anxiety about this test stems from fears that if he fails the test, his parents will ground him for life, and worse, he will not move on to high school with his classmates and friends. No matter how hard he studies the tense feelings never go away.

Until late history, science had not been taught to a great many people. Just the individuals who were rich, effective, and/or politically joined were given the chance to study math past essential checking operations. A significant number of my middle school understudies are amped up for the trusts of/eventual fate of coming back to this circumstance. I have the chance to instruct (instruction that fixes something) math and math study abilities courses for a neighborhood college. A number of the school understudies with whom I am included are about-facing to class after numerous years in the work power. The greater part of them experience a high level of math apprehension and anxiety in light of the fact that they have overlooked a significant

Everything we learn in school is important, but math is arguably most important due to the fact that logic and critical thinking skills are developed. These are some of the most applicable skills for everyday life. Throughout my past twelve years of schooling, I’ve realized how much math has piqued my interest. Taking difficult math classes has not only kept me on my toes, but it makes me want to challenge myself more and more. My high school math classes have given me the chance to develop greater skills that target