Personal Narrative: My Math Autobiography

My Math Autobiography
My relationship with math is neutral. I don’t hate it but I wouldn’t do it in my free time. I like that it takes a lot of energy to do it. I don’t like that how tough it is or how useless you feel if you don’t understand it. I have to work at math. I find it really tough and have usually made it through with a D-. I can't quite remember a time in my life I was any good at math. All through elementary school I felt everyone was always two steps ahead of me. I remember feeling like everyone was going to fast and I could never quite catch up. This has always made me feel self conscious because I excel at most other subjects but flounder in math. I can debate with or against Republicans and Democrats, or write incomparable metaphors. I can analyze and discuss any book handed to me, I can paint beautiful flowers and draw amazing structures. I cannot tell you off the top of my head what twelve times nine is. I can’t tell you anything that I was taught in math last year. I can’t apply math problems to the real world. Math has always been something I’ve struggled with and fear I always will. …show more content…
I find it difficult to listen to a teacher when they are speaking in front of the class. I really can’t focus when teachers just talk for a whole class period. I don’t by any means hate lectures, I learn this way perfectly fine in all my other classes. Math is just a little more tough. My ideal lesson would be, being walked through a problem until I understand it. I learn best when I am being taught alone and slowly, I guess. L earning math problems one step at a time really helps me understand. I prefer to know how to do one unit perfectly before moving on to the