Math Has Been Difficult In Middle School

Math was not always difficult for me. It used to be a lot easier because I found that more of the basic math was easier. Now, I still used to basics of math, but i use them in a harder way now using letters and symbols. In middle school, I did struggle because my 7th grade teacher would just give us half sheets of word problems and equations on the thing we learned in the 6th grade. My 8th grade math teacher would give us packets and packets of examples on how to work but he would never teach us or explain how to solve the example problems. Basically, I struggled because it was never really explained to me how to solve equations and why we do that. I have always struggled with negative numbers but recently with khan I have been getting better

Math for me has always been difficult. I did struggle in middle school, I had both just a math class and an algebra class and I hated both classes. Algebra was what I struggled with the most, a had an F in that class and I don't remember if I ever brought that grade up. In the past, when I struggled on a problem I felt stupid. I didn't understand anything meanwhile, all my classmates were halfway done. If I were struggling on a difficult problem I would usually just give up and ask someone for the answers and I would just copy down their work. I would struggle for about half the class time until I just decided to give up.

Coming to middle school from elementary school is a stressful time, but despite this fact, learning still needs to get done. This book here allows children to face middle school math, specifically what will be required from them from the start, while also covering all of the math standards and review for the Common Core State Standards. I would deem this difficulty as easy in comparison to what the students will experience in their math courses over their time in secondary education.

I have always considered myself a mathematician; however, that did not keep this subject from being difficult. Math has a glorious way of growing you up. For me, it began in the first grade where I was introduced to the multiplication table; my instructor used to test us with mental exams and I remember enjoying it like I was playing a game and winning.

Since elementary school, I have always found myself fully engaged in math classes. In third grade, I began to speed up my education by completing two courses in one year. I repeated this in fourth grade to get even further ahead of my classmates. Due to my passion for math, I continued to pursue the subject throughout middle school and ended up at the very top of my class in math upon graduation. I also continued along this path in high school and by my senior year I will have taken every math course that has ever been offered to me. I enjoy the subject because it fosters inventiveness and challenges me to find new ways to solve problems. Math has allowed me to think in a logical manner in all situations and is the reason for my success in

Every time I stumbled on a math problem that I do not know I research the concept the math lesson. I would watch a video relating to the topic of the math concept and review my math notes. When we have time to do the homework in class, I ask my classmates and sometimes I ask the teacher for help. I try to always analyze the problem of what I have to do before I start solving the equation. Lastly, I begin to solve the problem, and getting through it even though it might be incorrect. The challenged affected my academic achievement, by always pushing myself not to give up even at times it was difficult to understand a math lesson. Every time that I stumble upon a problem that I do not know how to do I tell myself, “not to get frustrated about it,” and to look in the textbook and look at the steps of how the textbook does it. I also study the material to understand it better. Furthermore, it made me try my best at math class to get a decent

I like how you mentioned that we can help student’s see that just because they don’t understand something, does not mean they never will. I feel that your quote is a powerful sentence to comprehend. I was a victim to a fixed mindset in Math starting in middle school. I thought that I would learn more every year in school until I hit 6th grade Math.

Much like you Karina, I often struggled in math throughout middle school and high school as well. In some classes especially when it came to algebra and geometry I would seek for extra help elsewhere because I sometimes wouldn’t understand the way the teacher would teach it. When it came to tests and I showed my work even if it was different then the teachers method of teaching I would often get comments that it was a “wrong” way of going about that problem, but at least I was still able to get the credit because the answer was overall still correct.

Well up to me math has never been a struggle. Until this year I kind of struggled but it was only because I really didn't pay attention in class but I didn't struggle a lot. In middle school I did struggle because I moved to a new school due to some problems I had in my old middle school. I struggled because I was getting used to the new way of learning and getting to know my teachers and peers a lot better. I felt bad because I had never struggled in my life but I got myself together and I stayed on track and kept my grades up. In the past when I had a hard problem I would stay trying to do it but if after a hour or so I didn't get it I would just quit and move on to something else but if I stayed after an hour and I thought I was doing the problem the right way I would keep looking at what I was doing wrong and I would try to correct myself.

I cannot pin down what factors caused me to have difficulty in math. My mom likes to say I just seem to take more after my dad rather than her in math (he is not that great in it). I,on the other hand, think it is because I was scared of being wrong.

The author made some good points but I disagree I believe students should be able to chose whether they take algebra or not. Though like I said the author made some good points like how some jobs do require to know math but there can be a lot of students who will not need algebra. Although this is true algebra is a reason some high school student drop out of school. Also some people don't want to do it or are just plain bad at algebra.

I was in 2nd grade when I struggled with math. It didn’t make sense to me,. I felt as if I was the only one in my class who didn’t know how to do math. I tried, but I didn’t quite understand, and I was really shy, so I didn’t like asking for help. It didn’t come to my attention until my parents scolded me for getting bad grades. I then began to try to get better.

Ever since I was young, my math was my worst subject. This continued on until about junior year of high school, when I really started to try in math. So far in my life I have only failed one class, and that was sixth grade math.. This really hurt my confidence in math because I believed that since I started off poor, there was no way that I could recover from it. Instead, I should have realized how important math really is, and asked for extra help. But trying to take the easy way out, I ignored it, and struggled with math for a very long time.Whenever my parents would try to help with my math, I would say that it was the teacher's fault I did not understand the material. When Junior year came I knew that I would need to start trying in math. The main reason was that I wanted to get a good score on the ACT. I wish I would have started trying in math freshman year of highschool, since I did not try that hard, my GPA was not as high as I would have wanted. Since then, I have become much more confident in math, and actually enjoy it. This is essential for me now because I am majoring in Finance. I would have never thought that I would want to major in something like this because I always hardly tried in math.. Now that I understand math, I am able to position myself for the future with a career that is based on math. Accepting that I needed help in math was probably the smartest decision I have

When I used to live in Illinois I didn't really struggle a lot in math till I got into the fourth grade. I was in a class with fourth and fifth graders, we would always do assignments and take tests and I always made bad grades on it. It always took me a while to understand things and I wasn't engaged in math so I always got distracted. Also i thought about other things that were not related to the teachers lessons. I always lacked confidence in myself because I always failed at doing something when it came to math.

Math is hardly anyone's strongest academic class, that includes myself. I have failed Math in my first semester of 11th grade (Junior Year) an F as a grade, and my second semester with a D. During the first semester, I had a friend who hated the teacher, and my mind immediately hated the teacher as well without question, but when said friend transferred to another school during the second semester, I got to know the teacher and frequently went to tutoring and actually liked said teacher, and I passed the final with flying colors, I am thankful for that teacher for helping me even when I gave her a hard time during the first half of the year.