Narrative Essay: I Had A Dream Last Night

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I Had A Dream Last Night I had a dream last night. I was going to be teaching some students Basic College Mathematics in a classroom suffused with a golden glow. It was our first day together and we were getting to know each other. I asked them about their past experiences in Mathematics classes. A couple of girls at the front said they enjoyed mathematics and found it interesting and beautiful. What a joy to have them in my class, I thought. Not so for the rest of the class. They had so many horror stories about their encounters with Math teachers and the way they were made to feel when they couldn’t do the mathematics that I soon became depressed and decided not to ask them any more questions on that subject. We started off with some simple arithmetic. Whole number…show more content…
Order of operations came next. Week One gone, five classes, 8 algorithms already – lovely! I thought to myself. If I carry on like this everything is going to be great. And so it went on: fractions, lowest common multiple, prime factorization, mixed numbers, ratio and proportion; the algorithms were piling up: 12 algorithms; 18 algorithms; 25 algorithms. Then I went onto percentages. I was really enjoying myself. I tested the students on the algorithms after each week or two and everything was fine. They learned their algorithms for the tests and performed them quite well on the whole. I was pleased. This is ‘real’ mathematics teaching I thought. At the end of the course the students had 45 algorithms to learn and the final exam would test about 10 of them. No problem! “Just learn all the algorithms and do these 120 problems and you’ll be ok.”, I told them. I was so happy with these students that I asked my supervisor if I could take them again for the next level course - Algebra. “No problem”, she

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