Why Teach

   I think teaching is the ladder to help people reach their dreams and helping people build their foundational skills will elevate them to a higher level. One of the teachers that had a massive impact on my math skills and how I think about math was my Geometry teacher, Mr. Kent, in middle school. He had his students practice multiple ways of solving problems, work in groups, and taught his students firmly that it is okay to fail. The last statement I found the most important as learning that failure is a part of learning how to do things, especially math where repetition can be a key factor in understanding problems left quite a lasting impression on me. This helped me re-evaluate math as a subject that I simply just couldn’t fully understand.

I wish to do the same and help students reach a level of math comprehension before they attend higher math courses. Specifically, I would like to start in Algebra or Algebra 2 in middle school as I believe a lot of the core mathematics that students use after that point rely on those skills built there. Algebra also happens to be one of my favorite subjects as a lot of the equations and math content can be related to real life application. The types of models and problems also have specific processes so you can teach the content step by step and really make sure the students get not only how to do and complete the problems but how to explain the math to others as well.

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  1. Praxis Place/Julia MerittAugust 26, 2021 at 11:12 AM

    I agree with you. Failure is definitely an important part of learning. So nice to have a savvy mathematician among us.

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  2. Michael_young1September 4, 2021 at 9:38 AM

    I think it was a great thing to learn! Cause in your mistakes you can grow to understand how you comprehend things as well as how to grasp more content as well

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