For the Love of Math

I can't believe that math was a subject that I use to enjoy. I was actually a pretty good student. I was a student that usually got A's and B's. I think that the reason to my success in the past was because of my great teachers and my desire to succeed. Ever since I accepted the fact that I was a mathematically advanced student (yea right), I had teachers that pitched every lesson in a way that us students would learn easily. They went over all of the homework assignments to see what our strengths and weaknesses of that chapter were. If we did not understand a certain section, they were willing to put of the section's test for a few days so we can spend extra time on reviewing that and other sections. Reflecting on my history with math classes, it made me notice a trend. Whenever I have an entertaining/good teacher, I always do well.

On the other hand, whenever I have a difficult teacher, I struggle quite a bit. I remember in sixth grade, I thought that I was stupid. I always got C's and D's on my math tests. But, one day I got an A+. I guess that might have been motivated by this to try harder. Even though my teacher made us work a lot in class, I would try my best to score high whenever an opportunity arose. For some reason, this year is a little different. I'm not entirely sure, but I'm slowly starting to lose that motivation to work hard. In HPpre -calculus, I get a lot of homework every night. Usually, I hardly understand the lessons, which ends up with me not doing a lot of my homework problems (every night). For some reason, for the first couple of tests and quizes I was able to get A's and B's. But just last week, I barely got a C on a test. I mean I was pressed for time and it was sort of long, but I made many foolish mistakes. I switched numbers around in the answer and I did the hard problems (which I only got partial credit for) instead of the easier ones. This made me wake up and realize that summer vacation is over and I need to start working harder. Hopefully before progress-report time, I'll be able to raise my grade.