I have a hard time to conceptualize mathematics because of the teaching methods and how they presents the information.
1) Math teachers loves to gave out their own shortcuts, I mean they will tell us to use it every chance they gets. Then in next mathematics level, they warned that method is old and shouldn't be using it at all. Then the new teacher taught their own shortcuts. This method made it difficult to solve problems because some of the formula wasn't taught how to properly solve without shortcuts.
2) "Why? How?", lots of mathematics teachers during my education times have struggled to give out the explanation of how it get to that answer and why it is that answer. Their response is simply just nodding and "That is how I taught, so it is the answer".
It is hard for me to be able to solve mathematics because I can't conceptualize it well and struggled a lot without using technologies to help me. I do love math, I just can't enjoy math because of my past teachers have failed to educate me. And I failed myself.
1) Math teachers loves to gave out their own shortcuts, I mean they will tell us to use it every chance they gets. Then in next mathematics level, they warned that method is old and shouldn't be using it at all. Then the new teacher taught their own shortcuts. This method made it difficult to solve problems because some of the formula wasn't taught how to properly solve without shortcuts. 2) "Why? How?", lots of mathematics teachers during my education times have struggled to give out the explanation of how it get to that answer and why it is that answer. Their response is simply just nodding and "That is how I taught, so it is the answer".
It is hard for me to be able to solve mathematics because I can't conceptualize it well and struggled a lot without using technologies to help me. I do love math, I just can't enjoy math because of my past teachers have failed to educate me. And I failed myself.