Blog Prompt: How do your culture, family and past experiences shape your math mindset?
To introduce you to this post, my mindset around math is that it’s really hard, and I’ve learned to dread it through my middle school years. Times in my life have really directed my feelings of math towards hate. From having really poor teachers to going through lots of home life struggles, math has not been something I liked from 6th-8th grade. First of all, my family doesn’t like math much either. My mom has what my family calls “an engineer brain” where she is great at solving problems and equations. Doesn’t mean she necessarily likes math. I have a lot of past experiences that have shaped my math mindset. In elementary school, I excelled at math. I loved it. I still remember going around the class being the teacher’s helper. Then, in middle school, my teacher's assigned worksheet after worksheet without teaching anything. I got the worst grades in all of my academic careers and I altogether began to hate school. Through all of my past experiences, New Tech is a way better school, and I’ve started to love learning again. Of course, I have my moments where I don’t want to be learning. Those moments are a lot rarer than when I was in middle school. I’m reshaping my math mindset!! My culture and the person I strive to behave to include math. I aspire to be a psychologist, and through that, I’ll need to know a lot of math. Also, my culture of being a Napa California female holds a bias of me being dumb, and I really want to prove that wrong. So, I’m reshaping my math mindset. Most of my past experiences, culture, and family life is against math. However, I’m learning to love math because it is a way of thinking that makes me really happy when I’m on top of it.
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