Detail How You Would Explain the Importance of Challenging Oneself and Excelling in Math to an Aspiring Sixth Grade Student About to Enter the Seventh Grade

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“Detail how you would explain the importance of challenging oneself and excelling in math to an aspiring sixth grade student about to enter the seventh grade” When I was in sixth grade I was one of the worst students, I was almost held back for a year. I was horrible in almost every single subject but I was especially terrible in math. I never learned how to do long division by hand and barely knew how to multiply. All of my time in elementary school I had problems at home and never made math or any subject, for that matter, a priority. I was in your spot today graduating from elementary school and thought that I would never need to learn or use those concepts I had chosen to overlook. I thought that math was done, and that calculators would figure out everything for me. I was wrong, I was terribly wrong. Math is so much more complex than that, and it’s so embedded in everything we do every single day. If I could go back to sixth grade there are many things I would tell myself. Apart from the expected, I would tell myself the importance of math and challenging oneself. I never this and I had an extremely weak foundation in math, I let this get out of control. I had so much potential but I wasted it in thoughts that got me nowhere. If I could go back I would tell myself to do things differently this time, to actually take the time to learn, even if everyone thinks its too late. I would tell myself to try to fill in the gaps before I advanced into higher math. If you don’t understand all the basics then you will never be able to understand any of the more complex material. And trust me, even if you don’t think you’ll need it you actually do. You will have to take more math classes, you’ll have to figure out your taxes, and your mortgages rates, and your credit card payments and many more things that demand math. Therefore even if you don’t think you need it

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