Do Teachers Have an Influence?

To me teachers have an influence on their students. The teacher is the one who helps the student understand how to do the math. When a student does not understand how to do a problem they are going to go back to their teacher to get a better understanding of how it is to do that. The math teacher is going to have to take the time and help the frustrated student that why they will not give up on math. I do understand that the teacher is one person and may not be able to help each student but I will help the students to know that the teacher does understand that they need help and is willing to help them understand.

            When I was taking Geometry in high school my teacher was not very nice and she had only pick certain students that she wanted to help (I was not one of them). When it can time in class to do work on what she had just taught us, she would be walking around seeing if any of us needed help. Whenever I would raise my hand to have her help me she would walk right past as if she never saw my hand up and help the person next to me who also needed help. I hated going to that class because I did not understand how to do the math because my teacher had never wanted to help me. If it was not for another teacher I had to help me I would have never passed the class. Whenever I would go to my actually math teacher for help she would just blow me off like I was not there. I had given up in her class because I could not get the help that I had needed.

            Now when I was in senior year of high school I was in different math class but I cannot remember the name of the class but this teacher was much different from the teacher that I had for Geometry. This teacher helped everyone in the class when they needed it and if she knew that we did not understand something she would word it in a different way so that we could then possibly understand what it was that she was explaining. She had never made it that no one had to struggle through the class not understanding how to do the work. She was a very helpful teacher. Anytime I was confused with the homework and would go see her to try and get help on how to do it she was more than happy to help and it had made me very comfortable to know that I could go to her for any help that I needed.

           

Elementary Math Class

The math class that I have been in this semester has been nice. It has been helping me to understand the concepts of math. In the class we were not allowed to use calculators up until now, but I had thought that I was going to have a hard time with the class because I could not use a calculator. With the class being elementary math I should not have been worried about it because the numbers are not going to be huge that a calculator would be needed. I had just gotten use to using the calculator on my phone for everything. After going through the first chapter we were doing I had realized that I was worried for no reason and would not have a problem doing the work.  

I have not been having trouble understanding how to do everything in the class. The only thing is the homework’s that we have to do they are called take home there are a few different problems that we have to do. The problems themselves are not hard to do it is when I have to do the explanation of how to do it. I have been pretty much getting the same grade each one we do. I do think that I put more into the explanations each time I do them but I guess not. When we were going over the fractions chapter in the class, I had thought that I was going to do awful and not understand any of it because I never was able to understand it and do the work right. After learning and going through all of it I had a better understanding of it and I did not find it to be as hard as I had originally thought it was. I had also done well on the test when I had thought I was going to fail it.  

The class really is not that bad at all. It had helped me to understand the meaning behind keep, change, flip and why it is that it needs to be done. Just as well why it is we do certain things for each problem that we have. I had found math interesting going into this class so as I am learning about why it is we do what we do for the problems; math becomes even more interesting to me. This math class has made me even more interested into understanding the importance of the concepts that we use each time we use math.