I Hate Math
I hate math! How could anyone enjoy math, let alone be a math teacher? Math homework takes up more time than all other subjects put together. Why should we have to do so many problems on a page, when completing just a few correctly can prove we understand what we’re doing? It’s so frustrating, such a waste of time. When in life do teachers think we’re really going to use this math junk, knowledge anyway? If you master the basics, addition through division, as well as simple fractions, decimals and percent’s, then most likely you’ll survive number problems and equations that you’ll face daily in life.
One of the worst parts about math is how math teachers seem to be the only one’s that understand whatever it is that they’re trying to teach. They expect everyone to understand it right away. Most students don’t!
If you have a question for the teacher it makes your life even worse yet! Because math obviously came easy to them, trying to explain it so we can understand is almost impossible. Now we’re even more frustrated than we were to begin with.
Homework, why bother? You might as well just guess at the answers. You’re just as likely to get a passing score, than you would if you’d spent hours trying to answer the problems. Getting some credit is better than nothing.
Another reason I hate math is because it’s so boring. How could anyone possibly think math is exciting? When I find something boring, I also find that it’s so much harder to stay focused. My thoughts are soon thinking about being anywhere else but in my math class. And while zoning out, I’ve now missed half of what the teacher has said. I have no idea what is going on and now I’m feeling completely lost. The stress becomes more than I have time or energy for.
Although there are many, many reasons why I hate math, the last one I’d like to mention is why does it always have to seem so complicated. There are the rules, terms, definitions, and equations etc., just too many things to remember. It seems impossible to remember it all! While you’ve worked out an equation that seems to be a mile long and you mess up, al that work is for not! If you mess up on one little part of the problem, the whole blasted problem is wrong. Why can’t we get credit for the 99% of the equation we got right? If that’s not painful enough, then you’ve got negatives, decimals, fractions and percent's to name a few you must deal with. Everything becomes even more complicated. There’s just too much to remember and who cares about remembering all this in the first place anyway? Isn’t that why we own calculators? Master your skills of effectively using a calculator and you’ve got it made.
In conclusion, to make matters worse, as a young child I once had my IQ tested. My test results showed my intelligence to be in the well above average or high average range in all subject areas, including math. And, wouldn’t you know it, my math score being the highest! Today I struggle to pass my Algebra test. This doesn’t make sense, just like math!
I hate math! How could anyone enjoy math, let alone be a math teacher? Math homework takes up more time than all other subjects put together. Why should we have to do so many problems on a page, when completing just a few correctly can prove we understand what we’re doing? It’s so frustrating, such a waste of time. When in life do teachers think we’re really going to use this math junk, knowledge anyway? If you master the basics, addition through division, as well as simple fractions, decimals and percent’s, then most likely you’ll survive number problems and equations that you’ll face daily in life.
One of the worst parts about math is how math teachers seem to be the only one’s that understand whatever it is that they’re trying to teach. They expect everyone to understand it right away. Most students don’t!
If you have a question for the teacher it makes your life even worse yet! Because math obviously came easy to them, trying to explain it so we can understand is almost impossible. Now we’re even more frustrated than we were to begin with.
Homework, why bother? You might as well just guess at the answers. You’re just as likely to get a passing score, than you would if you’d spent hours trying to answer the problems. Getting some credit is better than nothing.
Another reason I hate math is because it’s so boring. How could anyone possibly think math is exciting? When I find something boring, I also find that it’s so much harder to stay focused. My thoughts are soon thinking about being anywhere else but in my math class. And while zoning out, I’ve now missed half of what the teacher has said. I have no idea what is going on and now I’m feeling completely lost. The stress becomes more than I have time or energy for.
Although there are many, many reasons why I hate math, the last one I’d like to mention is why does it always have to seem so complicated. There are the rules, terms, definitions, and equations etc., just too many things to remember. It seems impossible to remember it all! While you’ve worked out an equation that seems to be a mile long and you mess up, al that work is for not! If you mess up on one little part of the problem, the whole blasted problem is wrong. Why can’t we get credit for the 99% of the equation we got right? If that’s not painful enough, then you’ve got negatives, decimals, fractions and percent's to name a few you must deal with. Everything becomes even more complicated. There’s just too much to remember and who cares about remembering all this in the first place anyway? Isn’t that why we own calculators? Master your skills of effectively using a calculator and you’ve got it made.
In conclusion, to make matters worse, as a young child I once had my IQ tested. My test results showed my intelligence to be in the well above average or high average range in all subject areas, including math. And, wouldn’t you know it, my math score being the highest! Today I struggle to pass my Algebra test. This doesn’t make sense, just like math!
