I love Math! by Keith

I love Math! by Keith - October 2016 Scholarship Essay

If the roles were reversed, and I was back in junior high or high school as a teacher, I would be most drawn to teaching mathematics. Math is not what I would consider a cool subject, nor is it for the faint of heart. I have always considered math to be one of my most favorite subjects to learn. Why? Because it is all about the formulas!

Plugging numbers into various formulas to reach a solution is so much fun to me! I never really understood why some of my classmates back in school could not understand math concepts like I did. Perhaps I did pretty well in math because I enjoyed it, so, I can totally relate to the fact that students who excel in math are somehow wired that way. I would teach math in a simple and approachable way. I would explain concepts using easy to understand variables with lots of drawings. I would assign online homework since I think it is very crucial to get lots of practice doing various problems.

I would enjoy watching students’ faces light up as they grasped a math concept, or if they did better on an exam than they thought they were going to. I would teach math because I would enjoy it, and hopefully, that would result in my students learning the subject.