My Middle School Career

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The way that I learn and understand Mathematics will change throughout my middle school career. During 6th grade mathematics was the year that I realized that I was having a difficult time learning and understand math. Since I was only a larva beginning his immature lifestyle who just hatched from a egg from The Dawe Elementary school. I mean thought the math would have become more difficult when I got to high school not middle school. Also during my middle school career I also found out that I was having a difficult time in english, but that’s another story. So to continue with the story, my grades on either testes and/or quizzes in math class were horrible, they would be D’s or F’s. But my grades for both homework and projects were ok, they …show more content…

So now I guess you said that I’ve evolved from a larva to a innocent child. But I’m not saying that my plan that my mom and I came up with isn’t working, it’s just a trial run to see if I’ll actually pass 7th grade and go on to 8th grade. Also come to found that towards the end of 7th grade during 3-4 term, that staying after school wasn’t really working or helping anymore. So one day when my mom picked up after school she asked me “ Hows going after school help going?” I said “ It's going ok, why”. “Well what have you guys been doing lately?” And I said annoyingly “ Just practice problems from the book.” “What, really that it nothing else!?” she said. “ Yeah, really!”. “ Well since you’ve been doing better in math, I guess there’s reason to stay after school anymore if that's all you're doing now!” my mom said. So I did, I stop staying after school, and my grades were still improving towards a solid C_C-. And that’s what I passed 7th grade math with, but I know that I can do better next year. Because I knew that in order to graduate middle school, I needed to pass all my classes including mathematics. So 8th grade was rolling along nicely like a giant ball rolling down the side of a mountain. And I was getting an average of C_B- on my report cards and of course my mom was so proud of me. She would give me a hug and tell me “ I’m so proud of you, you’ve definitely been

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