The Importance Of Maths In Education

In the other hand, I was failing math because unlike all the other students, I am not the fastest learner. I would always get confused with the structure and format of the question. For instance, fractions, decimals, and word problems would confuse me . I wasn’t very good with solving any of that so I knew I had to start attending tutoring. I had very good help from the students at Loma Linda University. They taught me an easier way to solve any problem, and that caused my test scores to increase. I can pass that class with no problem now. That

Several times I went to math class with my work incomplete and being unprepared for my academics, at that point I didn't even care. I was not busy the night before studying test or doing extra school activities I was sitting on the couch watching tv not doing my homework. I had the time for school, and I just wasted it. It got to the point where I was always failing at least one class, and all my grades were terrible. Everyone tried to help me get back on my feet and turn my education around, but I just didn't listen or put in the effort. I honestly didn't know what to do, and I was just lost. My laziness and fear of being a failure consumed

In this paper, I will be writing about the math curriculum, including geometry, taught in schools across America in grades first through twelfth. In addition, I will also discuss what students in other countries are taught in the areas of mathematics. Then, we will look at the level of mathematical knowledge of students in the United States compares to those other countries. Finally, we will find out if there is a way we can improve our educational system to better our future generations understand of mathematics.

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

The second semester of this course made me question my passion for math. I understood concepts and the curriculum but I would never do well in the practice AP Tests my teacher gave us weekly. The tests would be curved tremendously and the grades I received were a lie. 9/45 does not equal a 70%. I felt true resentment.

Regardless of working hard, I failed my high school math course. From the start, my teacher was negative towards me. After receiving an A- at the end of my mandatory summer math course, I learned my previous failure resulted from two things: peer-pressure to succeed and lack of confidence. During university, this lesson really helped me in completing three

Last year I was placed in Honors Geometry, where I struggled all year. After getting back my first test, which was a 37%, I was extremely surprised because I had never struggled in any subject, let alone math. All year I worked very hard

I failed my freshman year of high school. Continuously through middle school, I did terrible in my academic classes. Shiftless, I skimmed by with Ds and Cs and an A for art thrown in there. But still I was shoved forwards, my middle school gladly letting me exacerbate my bad habits into a trench, seemingly impossible to climb out of. Until I reached a school that wasn’t afraid to tell me to try again.

My lack of motivation or desire to achieve anything in such a "useless" class handed me my first ever D, a D- at that, and shocked me dearly. Me? Oh, but I was destined for Harvard, for MIT, I was the boy genius that colleges would shower with money to have the pleasure of my attendance! My fragile, immature ego couldn't take the blow, and for a long time my stubbornness affected me in mathematics by telling myself "you're just no good at math, there's no way you can hope for

I had to take courses that were advanced mathematics. Because math made me feel anxious and nervous when I was solving a math problem, I definitely hated math. I struggled finishing math homework and attending math class. I started to cut my math class. Due to that, I got an F on the first exam in my calculus class.

Second, I received very bad grades. Grades as scary as Frankenstein's head on a spider's body. So scary that teachers and the school board personnel passed out when they read my grades. I personally found it hard to pay attention in class. I guess that we all make conscious efforts to do what we do and sometimes we do not make the greatest choices.

Math is a subject that I have struggled with for a very long time; it is something that I always set aside. Math is something that I never saw myself using in my future and I thought if I put it off it would just disappear. When I came to the University I had to take Math 100 and Math SAX, which, unfortunately set me back on finishing math quite a bit because I did not put in the effort as much as I should have, and the amount of work they gave, was quite an overload. I took those courses twice and was still not put into a Math course at the University. That is when I started to push math away, but I have realized I cannot put it off and math is definitely important and we do need to know the subject no matter where we go in life or regardless

Through my high school career I have struggled in a lot of areas. This is evident in my transcripts. When I would struggle I would lose interest and eventually stop trying. This is my fault and I take full responsibility for my actions and have taken the steps to repair my mistakes. I have retaken both the classes I failed in and am currently trying to make better study and concentration tactics a new habit. I now seek help when I am struggling from my teachers and peers in order to achieve better grades.

I have always struggled with school in every aspect. I was a C- student most of my school career. I did not know how to balance my time or how to even do well in school. I got my act together my sophomore year by staying after school mostly each day to get the topics we were learning. Now I am an honor roll student. Also, I have a lot of difficulties trying to understand and do math since I was in middle school. I went through a lot of special classes so I could get extra support. I am a senior now in a regular math class passing all my test and having an A+.

Most students in my algebra II class, in high school, disliked math substantially. Math was only required to be taken for two years and if you were going to attend college, Algebra II was a requirement. When their two years were up, I could say that about half the students did not continue math. Many students in my Pre-Cal class always had a thing about asking the teacher when they were ever going to solve a problem like that in the “real world”. I noticed that the ones who had lower standards for example, they were set on going to the junior college or going straight to working, did not continue math after two years in high school. The students who were set on going to a four year university continued on with math. The students with lower standards did not care to go above and beyond. This had me thinking. If some students felt that math was useless in the “real world”, why are we required to take it? In my opinion I feel that students should be required to take a math class as a GE requirement, but it should be math that is applied to the “real world”. Those who need math in their career can continue their math studies even further.