I love math. My favorite year of math so far is 5th grade. For some reason, it all just clicked for me. I had never loved math in lower school. Math and I had a strange relationship. I would dread going to class every day and I would rush my homework as much as I could. My parents always pushed me to do better in math and I would always complain about it. But when I got to middle school, something about the learning environment or being in middle school made me start to love it.

Last year, I struggled a little bit. I think that I just wasn’t taking that many notes, so I fell a little bit behind. Also, Margaret was very helpful in having me take more notes and slowing down when I asked questions. Over the summer, my parents had me do a math tutor* and I think that REALLY helped. I will be continuing doing to extra math during the year, to help me with all of my homework.

I love math because of how precise it is. I love to organize things and I feel like math is just organizing numbers. I dislike math because it can be hard. My parents and lower school teachers have told me that I don’t work as hard as I can, and you have to work really hard in math.

I think that I am a good math student, because math is normally the class that I get the best grades in. My routine for studying is when I get home, I do all my homework and study afterword. I try to study for about 15 minutes in each subject. When I get stuck, I always have to remind myself to ask questions, because my instinct is to just ask a friend later.

A few things that you might want to know about me:
My favorite operation is multiplication.
My least favorite is division.
My favorite type of math is geometry because I like finding the area and perimeter of everything. After we learned geometry in 6th grade, I went home and found all of the triangles in my house and measured them.

I am really looking forward to this year in math!

*It isn’t exactly a tutor, it’s just to help me keep up my skills during the year. (At least, that’s what my parents told me.)