Every day, my grandmother would wake me up at 6:45 AM so that I could get ready for school. Then, I would take a warm shower, eat eggs and bread for breakfast, and take the bus to school. My schedule for semester 2 consisted of Math, Biology, Physics and 3D Modeling. I originally had English but enrolled it in ADLC to lighten the weight of my coursework. Math was always my favorite subject in school ever since Elementary school. The subject fascinated me because it was not only about numbers; rather, it enabled me to think critically and analytically about the world itself. When I took Math 20-1 last semester, I, along with many other people, struggled with the course because it progressed much faster than Math 10-1. However, Math 30-1 has become much easier as I understood the material within fast pacing. The class reduced from its size from 50 students to 20 students because of the pacing, which was fine by me as I enjoyed classes with small amounts of people. Within the classroom itself, there were kites pasted on the top of the windows, plushy toys of Star Wars on the teacher’s desk and the clock with the numbers related to Math. The second subject was Biology, and within the classroom, there were diagrams and models of the human body …show more content…
His classroom had physics posters and a periodic table; he was also one of the few teachers that had a chalkboard rather than a whiteboard. When Physics actually started, the teacher would demand us to sit down and listen, and based off this, it seemed that he had a past experience as a lecturer in University. The method of his teaching was somewhat hard to follow, as he would usually be talking for most of the time. It also seemed that the teacher was always rushing to get the material finished on time, as last semester, he had failed to complete teaching physics on
The documentary “Class Divided” is a video that was done in the early 1960s to show students how racism and discrimination is shown, and how to put yourself in that other persons shoes. The teacher had divided her students into two different groups based on their eye color. This exercise shows the students how discrimination racism can cause so much trouble and drama. It shows that we take this on because of our surroundings and how we are taught growing up. I felt that this video is perfect for what we have been learning and doing in our last discussion.
In the PBS documentary A Class Divided third grade teacher Jane Elliot tried an experiment to let a class of her third graders experience discrimination. For Jane Elliot’s third grade class in a small town in Iowa discrimination was unheard of because there was only white Christians living in the town. She separated her class based on eye color, so one day she made the kids with blue eyes be superior and the kids with brown eyes be inferior. She did multiple test to see if the way they were treated changed the way they learned. The next day she switched it, so the kids with blue eyes were now inferior and the kids with brown eyes were superior.
When I was attending Kaneland John Shields Elementary School in Sugar Grove, everday was just the same. First we started out with Silent reading our books, and then moved onto reading with our guided reading books. Next, we would move onto writing, where some days we free wrote and others we had an assignment. After Writing we had specials, which consisted of, art, P.E, computer,and music. Then we had lunch, math,and lastly social studies and science.
On September 20, 2016, John W. Burton talked about, Using Math in the Real World: what your professors won’t tell you about life after graduation. John Burton talks about his experiences after he graduated from Longwood University on how he used his degree in mathematics. First, he talks about bucket of marbles and goes thru what an athlete, art, and math majors would do with the marbles. Each major would do something different with the marbles athlete would play a game, art major would make a sculpture, and as math major we would count and organize them then find the probability for the different marbles. As math majors, we use problem solving to solve are problems in school and in life.
A class divided was an entertaining video to watch. I enjoyed watching Mrs. Elliott implement her exercise regarding discrimination and racism. It was also interesting how Mrs. Elliott 's third graders responded to her when they were asked a question about black people. Then she began her exercise by stating, "That she was the teacher and since she has blue eyes then blue-eyed people should be on top. " Then she stated,"Blue-eyed people are smarter than brown-eyed people.
The first week was relatively easy and I had no worries, but then the second week came along and changed my perspective of the class. The heavy amounts of math were not my favorite. I was sufficient in math, but this was more complex than any other math I had experienced before. I struggled on the first couple of quizzes and tests. I started to become discouraged with my capabilities.
Upon sitting down in biology class on the first day of school that year, Mr. Euler had pointed to a wall with numerous papers that each had a different classroom-management expression on it and had assigned each of students to pick an expression, then write
In 7th grade, I transferred from Bryan Middle school to Visitation Catholic School and there was not enough room in the accelerated math program, which ultimately set me behind. In high school, I found myself bored in math and knew I needed to challenge myself, so I ended up setting up a meeting with the math department head and we discussed my options. Sophomore year, I ended up taking two math classes, which was not easy; double the test, quizzes and lessons! However, by taking two math classes, I was able to get myself into a higher math class which ultimately was my goal, and achieving it was an amazing feeling.
Chapter nine, about halfway through the novel, is a discussion of the life of a man who closely paralleled McCandless in his passion and lifestyle. Krakauer opens the chapter with a quote from Wallace Stegner describing Everett’s passions: “What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms. We might be inclined to laugh at the extravagance of his beauty-worship if there were not something almost magnificent in his single-minded dedication to it. Aesthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity. (61)”
The documentary A Class Divided, discusses a very important lesson that took place in Riceville, Iowa following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In the film, Jane Elliot divides her third grade classroom into two separate groups based eye color alone. Students were given collars to wear to designate what color eyes they had. This was the third year in a row that Elliot was teaching this lesson. On the first day of this lesson, those with blue eyes were told that they were nicer, smarter, neater, and essentially better than those with brown eyes.
Math has always been my strong suit in school and it is something that all students need to know if the future. It is amazing to watch the growth of the students from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. The transformation I seen in my students at Dunbar was incredible.
My plate was loaded with a seven vigorous honors courses at regular school hours. Besides, three days a week for two-hours music class became a bit struggle in the beginning, yet sequentially
When you ask somebody about what subject do they appreciate most in school, the answer is, most of the time, Art, Music, English, … Rarely do you ever see Mathematics as an answer. Perhaps, pure laziness or incapable instructors are the problems. According to Awasthi, students feel like they are being imprisoned in an environment where, due to tedious teachings and ignorance, they believe that these kinds of subjects are not required in their future career choices. Some can even say that learning about math is just doing a ridiculous “number of tests, quizzes, homework and projects” (Awasthi). However, mathematic is not meant to be just numbers and how to find them; It is a branch where the human brain is being developed through the process
Each lesson was different and had different instructions, but the material was the same. On the first day that I observed the students had to complete a short worksheet. Half of the piece of paper was a short story called, “Sam the Snowmen”, and the other half was questions the child had to complete about the story. The teacher made them read the story three times, and to keep track of that number, the students filled in a star after each time they read it.
My interest in math has continued to grow as I advance through my education. From the elementary school Continental Math program to the Math Olympiad I take part in now, I have had a passion for math that has inspired me to continuously excel and push myself