{"id":1757,"date":"2014-11-13T23:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:53:57","slug":"math-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/math-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"Math-Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I really like about teaching math, is watching the girls \u201cget it.\u201d\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it; there aren\u2019t a lot of my students that LOVE math.\u00a0 There really aren\u2019t a lot of people<\/em> who LOVE math.\u00a0 It\u2019s confusing.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard.\u00a0 \u201cWhen am I ever going to use this?!\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Granted, I have a few girls that really excel in math and seem to at least love it a little bit.\u00a0 But again, that is rare.\u00a0 However, when I get to teach and see my students thinking about what is going on and answering the right questions, I get a little excited.\u00a0 A lot of the time I find that they think they won\u2019t understand so they don\u2019t even try.\u00a0 I call it a lack of \u201cmath-esteem.\u201d Once they find a little bit of confidence regarding a math concept, I see that math-esteem gets a little bit better.\u00a0 And then they excel again, and they improve even more in the overall subject.\u00a0 Sometimes they just needed the change in environment.\u00a0 The smaller class setting really helps.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot easier to keep an eye on each student when there aren\u2019t 30 in the classroom.\u00a0 I love watching the concept click and the \u201coh, I get it!\u201d happens.
\nI also see this occur as their whole person is improving.\u00a0 Their progress as they are here is so awesome to watch.\u00a0 As their self-esteem continues to improve \u2013 along with their math-esteem \u2013 and they understand the skills<\/a> that they can put in place to make their life better, their light comes on.\u00a0 Even their outward appearance changes from sulk to light and they do wonderful things.\u00a0 Come graduation day, they couldn\u2019t shine brighter.\u00a0 They mostly \u201cget it\u201d \u2013 even though some of them don\u2019t truly get it until a while after they\u2019re home.\u00a0 The change is beautiful!
\n– written by Krista Nugent, Mathematics Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing I really like about teaching math, is watching the girls \u201cget it.\u201d\u00a0 Let\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}