Math Autobiography

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I honestly don’t remember much of the math I learned in elementary school. I went to a public school called Ma’ema’e Elementary. In fourth and fifth grade we were split up by math skill. For both years I was in the highest math class of four. I was never the smartest in the class but I was never the slowest either. From about third to fifth grade I also attended once a week soroban classes. Soroban, or abacus, is a Chinese calculator based upon beads on a tray. It involved a lot of simple mental math and quick fingers. I don’t really think this made a significant difference in my math skills as my mental math is pretty terrible. In sixth grade, I began school at Punahou School. In seventh, my math teacher recommended that I enter into the …show more content…

I actually quite enjoyed it because the math felt like puzzles to me. I just hated having to memorize theorems word for word and I kind of disliked my teacher. We pretty much never actually talked about math during class. I continued on the middle track and did Algebra II/ Trigonometry for sophomore year. That wasn’t too bad. Junior year was Advanced Pre-Calculus. I kind of overloaded myself that year and threw myself into AP US History and AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2. That turned out to be a terrible idea and my math grades suffered the most from it. I was then recommended to drop down a half step in math. I began Differential Calculus in senior year. It’s the class that students go to when they drop down from the advanced classes. The students are still higher than the normal track but they’re not ready for AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC. I actually thoroughly enjoyed that class. It was actually kind of a breeze because my teacher was awesome. That was also the first math class that we were given partial credit for showing work. In previous years, if the answer in the answer blank was wrong, you got the whole thing wrong. For this class, if your work was correct or you did certain things right, you could get points for

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