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When Jules was younger she was not great (stink) at math. To be honest, she was pretty terrible at it. She was a good student otherwise. She was good at and really liked other school subjects, like literature, and language arts, and history, but math just wasn’t her best subject, in fact it almost ruined her.
She was homeschooled up until the fourth grade. She was in homeschooling until when she started going to the public school where she lived. The first year she was there she really struggled in math class, and her mean teacher didn’t help at all. He would purposely call on her even when she didn’t raise her hand, when it was really obvious she didn’t know the answer.
Being called up to the board to work on a problem in front of the teacher and her whole class, when she was really struggling to understand any of it, practically ruined her self-esteem.
She would never have or come up with the correct answer to the problem, and she would get so embarrassed and blush bright red, totally flustered, muttering and stammering and just making everything so much worse.
None of this helper her self confidence any, and the other kids would make fun of her for not knowing math and for being homeschooled. She knew math, kind of, it just wasn’t her strong point, in fact it was a weakness, in fact, math almost ruined her.
This continued for a while, and leaning math just was not her thing. She could study and study, but none of what she learned would ever stick in her memory. So, struggling with mathematics, she moved from from fourth to fifth grade, and all the same stuff happened. She just wasn’t getting a firm grip on how to learn math.
She tried to prioritize mathematics, and help herself, and her parents helped, and they even made her stay after school for extra math study and tutoring. But none of that helped either, she was still just barely passing with her grades.
Her next math teacher was just as mean and unhelpful as the others, and did the same stuff, calling on her in the classroom when her hand wasn’t raised and she had no idea what the answer was. And just like in the other classes, the other kids would all laugh at her and tease her – and she thinks that’s not a good way to teach kids mathematics at all.
Don’t even start with the tests and exams they had to take. Yikes. Not good.
She went through sixth grade, and seventh grade, just barely passing math, always struggling with it, and now she’s in eighth grade and getting home schooled again, and now, finally, she’s gotten a real handle on math and a lot better at it. She’s built her confidence up, and that was really half of the problem.
She’s learned that it just takes some time, and patience, and learning to think a certain kind of way – there’s no reason for anxiety at all. But also, she’s learned that it’s okay to have things you’re great at and things you’re maybe not so great at – like math. Sometime improving a lot is enough, and you can choose what you invest your energy and time in to be the best!
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