Essay About Math

Evelyn Lamb in the article “Don’t let math stress you out”, states that the cause of math stress. Lamb supports her statement by defining the cause of math stress, and how it becomes a problem.First Lamb, explains the cause of people stressing out on math is a condition called “math anxiety.” Math anxiety is when the child worries about math problems, that can’t be remember, meaning anxiety is the problem. Why, because anxiety can interfere with the brain, which also interfere with the…

The results showed that there was a significant effect of music on math. Participants who listened to music performed better than participants who completed the tasks without music. One possible explanation of these results is that participants who performed the tasks with music first felt the overall task was too long. As the participants started to inch towards the end, their attention began to dwindle. However, participants who listened to the music last felt a boost of energy once the music…

A math worksheet was being completed during this observation session. From this observation, I have found that the students are given choices to gain the information through the 3 different learning styles: kinesthetic, visual, and auditory. The teacher knows that she must maintain her students attention and she additionally knows that her students, kindergarteners, cannot think abstractly yet. The teacher instructs the students to pull out their red and yellow crayons. The teacher instructs…

As an engineering student who has just finished MATH 137 and registering for MATH 213 for the coming semester or returning to school and having to take MATH 213, thinking the class will be full of multidimensional so that you will be stuck in the space. Well, the good news is that you will be in a fixed concrete classroom. In MATH 213, you will learn many topics regarding lines, vectors, cones and so on. Among these topics, I would like to present a topic that is easy to understand, however,…

pursue for the rest of my life. After much consideration, many pros and cons lists, and some input from my family, I finally made the decision to pursue mathematics education. I know that this career will be a great fit for me because of my passion for math. It has always been my favorite subject, and I know that I will be prepared for any questions that my future students have. This is just one reason why I am confident that I will…

Throughout math classes, concepts are learned and combined with others. Before moving on to the next, in some cases, there is a refresher to get ready for the new material. Sometimes a class starts out with a previously learned concept and it has been a while since a student has seen it. The teacher then must make sure her students are on the same page and ready to move to the new material. Sometimes this process can take a while because of different learning curves and a student may have not…

Analysis and Evaluation Evaluation and Analysis of Learning My mega maths lesson was based on the theme shapes. I decided to use the shapes question for this particular week because the children had lessons on 2D shapes the previous week and would be able to use their prior knowledge to help them solve the problem in this particular question. Aubrey (2013) states that it is important for children to be able to access their prior knowledge and ongoing cognitive processing in every lesson.…

entertaining for my mother; she loved seeing how excited her son was about school, even though it was mostly out of fear. The fear of mathematics shaped my early learning of the curriculum. I never used to love math because I was always forced to learn it. I was also, always taught the fundamentals of math, but never anything about the history of it until I arrived in the United States. I was originally born in the United States, but my return was at the age of nine. I was then placed into the…

In my 9th grade year I achieved first place in the North Carolina regional math competition this was an event that utterly changed who I am and resulted in the person that I am today. My teacher was at the front of the classroom while I was in the back barely paying attention. That was until I heard my teacher say something that made my ears perk up. My teacher said “... enter the math competition and you will automatically get a 100 on the final exam for this class”. I was purely ecstatic at…

I did my math practicum in a sixth grade classroom over at Emerson Elementary. I had been doing some service learning hours at the beginning of the semester and observed quite a few math lessons. I then worked with a few students but focused specifically on just one for this practicum. He was a student that Mr. Craner said did well in math at times but has a hard time understand why. During my initial interview before I would teach the lessons, I had asked him if he could remember what they…