Personal Narrative: Analyzing The Concepts Of Mathematics

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"Wait do the exponents go first or is it the addition part?" His name was Ethan, a sophomore in Math 3 that did not grasp the fundamentals of PEMDAS. I met Ethan when my teacher assigned me to tutor him after school for extra credit. I didn't know much about him, other than that he was struggling in math. As our session went on, I became more and more frustrated as he struggled with basic concepts of math. As a result, I gave him more homework, so he could practice concepts he didn't understand and told him I expected them done the next time we met. "Did you finish the worksheets?" I asked him the next time we met. He shook his head. "Well maybe it's just the first week" I said to myself. But then came the second week, and third, and fourth.

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