3. Your math autobiography--last math course, feelings about math, past struggless or successes

September 2012

My Math Autobiography

For this paper I will be writing about my experiences with math. I will talk about my feelings about math, my good and bad math years, and what I expect from myself this year.

I have always liked math and I have always been good at math. I say I've always been good at math because I've always gotten good grades in math. My math teachers were always really nice to me. I was constantly helping out other students and it was fun for me.

I didn't ever really feel challenged by math until I got to college. I remember my freshman year at Ohio State I received my first C in math. It was a statistics course. I worked so hard for that C. It was frustrating. I realized I never learned to study. Since I couldn't bear the thought of getting yet another bad grade in math, I decided to join a study group. Wow! That made all the difference in the world. I never again received another bad grade in math.

Since I'm a teacher, this year I hope to give my students the confidence I had with math when I was their age. I also want to teach them how to study, since I never learned to study until I got to college. Like I said in the beginning, I've always liked math and I hope my math experiences can make me a better math teacher.

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