PETER JOHN F.

TEVES

BSED_MATH

List down 10 observable challenges in mathematics during your high school years.

1. Math Anxiety: During my High School years, I noticed that students exaggerated the
difficulty of mathematics and the result is they have an anxiety in this subject because
they set in their mindset that math is very complicated but in reality they manipulating
their minds to convince that they can not learn it but they probably can learn it.

2. How to substitute: In lower grades of highschool when applying formula in the

questions, some student do not know how to solve the problem because they don't even
know how to use the formula because they don't know how to substitute the number to
the given formula.

3. Attention difficulties: Math often involves multi-step problems, and students need to be
able to perform several consecutive steps to find a solution. This requires staying actively
focused on the task at hand. When complex math procedures are being taught, students
often lose focus and become distracted during the lesson. As a result, he or she may miss
important steps in the problem-solving process, and later struggle with math when trying
to complete problems on their own.

4. Math always builds upon previous concepts: Math is built on sequential learning. If a
student didn’t fully understand a previous lesson's concept, they are likely to struggle
when newer concepts are introduced. Unfortunately, many students who are struggling
with math feel uncomfortable or embarrassed asking questions in class when their
teacher has already moved on to the next lesson. If the foundation isn't there, the student
will struggle in class and may not fully realize why they are struggling with math when their
peers seem to be progressing along.

5. Concepts are learned, but not understood: Often times students know how to perform
an operation from repetition, but don’t really understand the meaning behind it. There
are many question to solve in math that are very similar but there are many diffirent
formula's to solve.

6. Lack of practice or patience: Many students simply don’t spend enough time
practicing math concepts(including me). Other students may not realize they need more
time reviewing certain areas. Sometimes a student will feel like they understand a
concept, but when attempting to do a problem themselves, they don't know how to
begin.

7. “When am I ever going to use this?”: This classic line is a favorite of every math teacher,
but more importantly signifies many students’ opinions that they will never use these skills
outside of a classroom. In other words, students often have trouble connecting math to
reality and seeing how it is applied in daily life. For instance, a student that struggles with
fractions may have trouble understanding how to convert the fraction ½ to the decimal
0.50. However, the same student has no problem understanding that “half a dollar” is
equal to 50 cents. This is a great example of the disconnect students sometimes
experience when struggling with math.

8. Confusing operations signs or performing them in wrong order.: Sometimes student

confused in operation to use in order to solve the question.

9. Inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.: When students

are rushing the quiz or exam to solve mathematical problem, the result of their computing
is inconsistent.

10. Slowness in understanding math concepts in word problems.: This is maybe a small
amount of students but there are many students that very slow to pickup an understand
math concepts because it take time to understand them.