My Math Difficulties began with Pre-Algebra and Fractions

My Math Difficulties began with Pre-Algebra and Fractions

It was the summer before college when I had the best vacation in my life . I never had enjoyed any vacation since the past years . Too bad I became so pre-occupied with take pleasure in this escapement that I lost my penchant for learning . Summer was fast ending and I had to pack-up hastily and drive back home . And schooldays are coming

I felt like a lonely cavalier on my college 's first math class . As everyone on the class each has varied high school

backgrounds , I found it hard to cope up with the subjects pace . I got a very failing mark on my first quiz . And worse , it went on until the end of the semester

My young freshman mind found it tough to adapt to such a demanding subject . I always had to sleep late at night solving problems and forgetting them when I wake up in the morning . My mouth gaped at the sight of endless assignments and workbooks . Our teacher could see our agony , our pleading eyes hoping she would blow her whistle and let us take a break from the work . Twenty pages of reading and a worn out pencil erase keeps me awake every night . I sweated over those small numbers above and below the fraction line . How could I learn all this and still have time to watch Smallville ? This wasn 't a freshman 's usual anxiety . I honestly thought I hated math . What is this subject anyway Why would I have to really put much time and agony into it

Nightmares would come in numbers dancing across my room . It would torment me just thinking about how bad my day became because of that exasperating pre-algebra exam . It would send me down lurching on the sofa everyday when I get home . Nothing had been that much demoralizing when the test s were returned and what you got isn 't even enough to lift your aching pride , what more than to show it to your mom

A research , published Anna Sierpinska , Georgeana Bobos and Christine Knipping of Concordia University in Canada (August 2007 tackles about the frustration in students of mathematical courses . Their summarizes the reactions of the students and instructors they interviewed . They identified numerous causes of frustration , such as the fast pace of the courses , inefficient learning strategies , the need to change previously acquired ways of thinking , difficult rapport with truth and reasoning in mathematics , being forced to take PMC insufficient academic and moral support on the part of teachers , and poor achievement (Sierpinska , Bobos and Knipping , 2007 . These sources of frustration are discussed from the point of view of their impact on the quality of the mathematical knowledge that students develop in mathematical subjects

All of us go through all of the learning stages but not always on the same timetable (Hood , 1997 . Sometimes , other inclinations in us , like music and arts , develop much earlier than the others and...