Algebra

My ninth grade math class is the hardest class I’ve ever taken. It was Algebra two/trig taught by Mrs. Derickson. On the first test, I scored around a sixty. That was the lowest grade I had ever earned on a test. But I didn’t let that failure define the rest of my high school career, I improved my grade through after school tutoring, hard work, and dedication. Mrs. Derickson stayed after Wednesday and Thursday, so I stayed after Wednesday and Thursday. Other kids from my class stayed back and…

Richardson-Jones, 11th ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 73-101. This short story is about two brothers who live in Harlem. Even though they both grew up in the same house, they both went through different paths in their lives. The oldest brother became an algebra teacher while his younger brother Sonny ends up in prison due to using drugs. The two brothers have a strained relationship and after Sonny gets out of prison, the narrator attempts to make amends with Sonny. Themes of this story…

gave him a way to go to his grocery store he worked at. When he was working at his job he was still able to take advanced classes that had overall helped him get into a good university. These classes include many different math courses such as algebra, algebra 2, advanced geometry, as well a physics. One of the biggest things that had highly encouraged him to become a surgeon had happened when he was a caretaker in a hospital in Heber, Utah. The person who had inspired him was a surgeon that he…

Beginning with the 1977-78 school year, the Mid-Valley School District rented the former St. Patrick’s School in Olyphant. That school year, it was used as an elementary school for students who would have attended classes at the building in Olyphant that was condemned. This building was only big enough to accommodate the kindergarten through fourth grade students from Olyphant. Students from Olyphant in fifth and sixth grades continued to attend classes at the former junior high school. The…

In a world where technological and scientific advances are realized daily, communication with people around the world is a common occurrence, and knowledge is becoming increasingly accessible, a wider window has opened for the individual to explore, discover, and/or create their ideal self. We see ourselves passing the times of idle wonder and theory of our past philosophers and intellects. The consequence, however, is that knowing yourself, as well as projecting and thereby sharing this self…

This letter is intended to help me figure out what skills I have learned in this class, and what skills I was lacking and had already obtained coming into this class. This is my first year in college, but I had many of my teachers in high school that prepared me for the rigorous calculus course. I took calculus AB my senior year of high school, so I had all of the skills I needed prior to entering this class. I knew the Limit, Derivative, and Anti-Derivative topics, and in depth. I also spent…

I read so that I would not feel inferior anymore. Today I still do struggle with my sloppy crooked handwriting and with Algebra, both of those things are characteristic of Spatial Visual Disorder. As I have gotten older I have come to realize that even though I have a learning disability, it does not define me. My learning disability does not curb my interest in genealogy…

When I was in eighth grade, I got a C during my first quarter of algebra. It’s not that I wasn’t studious or hardworking, I simply didn’t understand it. I tried harder than the other students, spending more time on my homework, color coding my notes, yet my papers would always be marked with lower percentages. I had to gather up all of my courage to ask my teacher for extra help. She kindly agreed. I would go to her once a week after school; we reviewed my homework and completed worksheets. My…

Academic Declination People strive their whole childhood trying to live up to the standards of their parents. We simply want to make them proud and have fun. All that the adults want to see is for their children, and future of our nation, to be successful and happy. The problem with this fairy tale is that with our nation’s current standards for academics being so low, we really aren’t accomplishing much. Sure there are the occasional elite groups of students who do learn a lot and become…

High school to me felt no different than of the other eight years of school I had endured. The difference being, that now my grades mattered and would determine if I would go to college. For me, issues like anxiety and depression were not a problem. I had no issues getting good grades as long as I actually tried. My two largest obstacles in school were procrastination and poor organization and both of these issues would not help when I was placed in a math class with a very difficult and…