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Why do Filipino students hate math? by jhay on June 16, 2009 X Welcome Googler! If you find this page useful, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Yesterday, I expected the first meeting of my statistics class to be the start of a boring and tormented semester of taking another math subject. My hatred or lack of enthusiasm in math as a subject stems back to my high school days spent being humiliated in front of class by a teacher who forced us to do manual calculations in algebra and trigonometry! â€Å"What?! After all of that all we get is zero?† Plus, the experience of spending hours solving complex math problems only to end up getting zero as the value of x or y, though it was the correct answer,†¦show more content†¦Fortunately, this statistics class is my last one according to my curriculum and the instructor is every bit as human in admitting his mistakes and shortcomings as he is smart and competent to teach the subject. Still, that nagging question stands, why do Filipino students hate math? As teachers, we all know that students love hating Maths. Students wear the ‘I’m no good at Maths’ badge proudly. It’s cooler to fail at Maths than to be a ‘nerd’ and excel. Rather than a stigma, belonging to the ‘I don’t get it’ club has more social currency than mathematical success. And even though so much of our lives utilise Maths and mathematical thinking skills, students still parrot the line â€Å"It’s not as though I’m ever going to use this in the real world.† â€Å"Maths was my worst subject† So what are the ‘X’ factors which give Maths such a negative image? In order to understand how to teach Maths like you love it, we have to understand how students hate Maths when they learn it. Top Ten Reasons Why Students Hate Maths. 1. Teacher Assumption – â€Å"The teacher taught us as if we knew stuff already.† 2. Obscure Vocabulary – â€Å"I could never remember all of the maths words.† 3. Curricular Isolation – â€Å"Who cares? We’re never gonna use this stuff in the real world anyway.† 4. Sum Anxiety – â€Å"I kept on getting it wrong so I just gave up.† 5. Incomplete Instruction –Show MoreRelatedCommunication Gap Between School And Home899 Words   |  4 Pagesto the new school or help with their assignments (2008, Home literacy). Even though my parents had a descent education it was still a big issue for me because they didn’t know English, but they were able to help me in other subjects like science and math. Through out the years the educational system has been a shut door of opportunity for Chicanos, Black, Indians and other ethnic and cultural groups like Reynaldo Flores Macias mentions in his article Developing a Bilingual Culturally- Relevant EducationalRead MoreInfluences on College Major Choice6614 Words   |  27 Pagescareer choices between females and minorities. 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