SUMMATIVE TEST: REFLECTION

Mathematics is the science that deals with the logic of shape, quantity and arrangement. Math is
all around us, in everything we do. It is the building block of everything in our daily lives. As a student, I
am one of those people who is afraid in Math because for me, math is like a nightmare where every time I
always encounter it, it comes to the point that I just want to wake up and forget everything what
happened. It was all started when I was in grade 3, My mom wants me to memorize multiplication and
division table, she always beats me just because I’m having a hard time in memorizing it and because of
that it made me afraid of math. But suddenly everything was change when I was in grade 8, I have a
teacher who is very good at teaching math. All my fears disappeared just because of her good teaching
strategies, because of her I learned to be active and I became more confident in learning math. I
addressed my fear of math by focusing on it and following the correct instructions to get the answer to the
given formula or situations.
For me, the term of Math anxiety for such fear is incorrect because everyone is afraid in math,
they are just afraid of the thoughts that they might not be good in math but at the end all of them are also
able to overcome and surpass the given tasks in math. I don’t think that math anxiety is really exist
because for me, it is only the result of our fear that we may not understand the topic or the given
situations that given to us, we are just being pressured on answering math problems. To cure math
anxiety, we don’t need a specialist or doctors, we just need teachers who can help us to understand math
in easiest way, we need teachers to guide us especially to those things that we do not understand in
answering math. And we need teachers who can encourage us or the students to do their best in
answering math problems. It is not too late to conquer math anxiety. There are many ways to understand
math, we just need to appreciate it and have more patience in learning mathematics.