My Experience with Math

I’ll be honest, this is not a class that I would have chosen to take on my own accord. It is a required course in order to earn an associate’s degree, so I was mostly just taking the course to get my credits. I originally didn’t think it would offer me anything educational or useful that I would be able to use in my future. I figured that I am practically an adult, and have been communicating with others my whole life now, I don’t think they’ll be able to teach me anything I don’t already know. Now that I have reached the end of the course, I am enthralled to admit that I was completely wrong to think those things.

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

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.

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 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

There are the fears that are out of our control such as hunger, war, and death but just because those few ideals are beyond our own control don’t mean we shouldn’t take control of what can be within our control. There are modifiable changes such as participating in class and getting the confidence to give a speech but so many more realities are within our reach to change. There is a power within us all that can alter the outcome of demanding jobs, heartbreaking relationships, and even our state of mind if we all just take it upon ourselves establish a sense of control when in comes to fear. I for one was hesitant and fearful of starting my first day on the Mayo Clinic neurology floor. I had spent all day fretting about what if I did something wrong or what if I didn’t know the answers to questions patients asked me but once I actually arrived to clinical on the first day and put myself in a position where I would be able to help others, my fear started to fade away. My initial response may be a weary one to overcome but if I was to resist facing my fears in life, an unwanted course of action may have been chosen that could alter the outcomes for the patients. Due to taking control of ones own course of change the result will be was way more beneficial than one that could have forced upon me. This was a scary task to complete and yes it was be a difficult decision to

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

For the past three years of my high school career, and now my fourth, I have made it an obligation to continually expand my horizons in regards to math; when I cannot fully grasp an idea or concept, rather than giving up, I relentlessly pursue the idea until it is understood. During freshman year, math did not come easily to me. I was forced to go in early some days because, simply, I did not comprehend the concepts. However, taking initiative with my school work, and constantly working through problems that were difficult can be deemed one of the best decisions I have made. Although my final grade may not have been an