Essay About Math

Math Teacher A teacher majoring in Mathematics is referred to an educator who teaches middle or high school math. It also requires them to train for classes such as algebra, geometry, trigonometry and other higher level math classes. Math teachers, also called arithmetic teachers are highly skilled in a variety of topics. Math teachers are of the jobs that require a big amount of patience as it take some students a long time to understand a concept. Math teachers should also be creative in…

States miss the mark to exploit on the ability through hard work. High school students’ math score, during an international math competition, underperformed compared with other countries. In Intelligence and How to Get It, Nisbett explores how the educational systems of East Asian countries put importance on hard work and not as much on inherent talent: He explains how the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans excel at math compared to Americans. He emphasized that students in Japan attend school sixty…

tool for science and technology. Everyone knows that poetry and music are for pure enjoyment and for uplifting and enrnoblingthe human spirit, but no, math is important.” (Lockhart 32) Poetry and music are an art and treated as a type of art, but mathematics is an art and is not being treated as an art. Students have no enjoyment for math. If math was treated like an art, students would have an opportunity to be creative and engage joyfully with their mathematical ideas. Students can be…

cannot be touched with the hands and arms by any players except the goal keepers. Soccer is a beautiful game of skill, teamwork and strategy. You may be surprised that there’s math in soccer but almost all of soccer is based on math. Soccer captures the attention of many people throughout the world. Almost all sports have math in it. The playing field is the built up of the game. The longer sides of the field, called the touch lines, are between 100 and 130 yards long, while the shorter ends of…

with me in the library after school. His mom is the school’s librarian. Per this occasion, I developed a set of questions about place value. Initially I asked questions to know him more, such as what is his favorite subject, and he said Math, what is his favorite math lesson, and he said times fact. When I asked him, what is place value, Jacob, mentioned that they were supposedly study it in second grade, but they didn’t so they just started to study place value. Other questions were about the…

religion, one could argue that we would not have advanced to the mathematics we have today. Surely, humanity would have eventually arrived to the same fundamental understands of numbers and geometry, but one has to doubt if the founding figures of math would have had the same curiosity if it wasn’t for religious influencing their desire to understand the world. Regardless of such speculation, it is known that mathematics would not have been able to spread throughout the world if…

When Mrs. Laura was teaching math, she used the smart board to write all the problems. She would then call up the children and had them write the answer on the smart board. The children had little dry erase boards in front of them so they can try to figure out on their own the answer. Each day, the children would count each number on the number chart and then add a new number as the days went by. So by the end of the school year, they were able to count up to the number 180. By the end of the…

their fields, had equal feelings about the relationship between mathematics and music. They not only live together, but feed each other, and complement each other. How many have not studied these relationships, but a few have and made it known that math and music can in fact be related and are related. Mario Livio in his work “The Golden Ratio” listed several instances where Fibonacci numbers are used in music. Livio looks at tuning styles, piano and violin building, and compositions that use…

This week I watched children in the class solve a word problem on the board. I decide that I wanted to observe the students in Math and make a checklist to assess their understanding of the concept skill presented. The students were suppose to master the skill of solving a word problem with pictures and then when they were done, they were to participant in a class discussion on how to solve the problem. With that being said, I decided to compose a checklist to see if students understood how to…

Skydiving: Diving into Math You are falling fast. You can see the ground, but how do you know when to open the parachute? Do you have the right parachute? There are many situations in skydiving where you could risk death, but there is a way to have a carefree, safe trip down; use math. There are many uses for math in skydiving such as formulas, measurements, shapes, and rates. If you use all of these math concepts correctly, you should have a great time skydiving. In skydiving there are few…