All About Mathematics

A kind of subject that a big portion of a students hate this in the class. Numbers, Counting, Solving equations, all of those are imparted of this specific subject and everyone hate it, literally. But have you ever notice that mathematics helps us in our daily lives? We cannot live without MATH and that a certain fact. We hate the process of learning it but we still using it in our daily routines, for example did you ever imagine or have you done it before waking up in the morning without looking at the clock knowing what time is it? some of us will say YES but 85% of people will say NO because people will never be aware to Time, Days, Months or Years without Numbers in their lives. 

There are instances that when I was still in elementary during our snack time our teacher always pick some of my classmates to play some show card games, each two teams has a five members and the leader of the team while standing in front is the one whose holding the flashcards, a cards that has equations to be solve by his teammates, the other members are standing at the back and will solve the problem, the one who got the correct answer will jump and jump until they got the finish line. That is our class's favorite game but the truth is not for me because I never joined in that particular game not because its boring but because I am afraid of numbers. In that early age I already know that I HATE MATH. I graduated in elementary knowing that fact and my teacher doesn't ever notice it.

Why do i have to say this? its because for us as a FUTURE MODERN TEACHER, to open our mind that if we are already a teacher it should be a kind of teacher that will see the transparency of her students not just only in their excellency but also in their deficiency. "Fear in a certain subject will change the mind of the student to learn" We not hate math, we hate numbers, we are afraid to numbers that is the main problem because that is a kind of learning that are imparted of traditional way of teaching "the feeling being afraid in numbers" "Na kapag Math na, Ay hala zero nanaman ako nito" that's our first thought because we are not being taught to appreciate, to love and to enjoy mathematics we are taught to get panic when we hear the word mathematics. As a future modern teacher it is our duty now to change it as of the changes in  the curriculum it should also change our way of teaching, imparting and contributing knowledge of learning to our students because we are not the traditional teacher who just brought knowledge to everyone but we are the future modern teacher that will teach them to love and enjoy the learning process in mathematics with the help of technologies and innovative strategies in a way of teaching.

Written by:

Shailina Mae Estremera