Ivy Dianne G.

Pascual 11-Aquamarine
Mathematics, Fear or Not to Fear

Indeed, mathematics is one of the most important things in our life. We always use
mathematics in our daily life. Our lives are governed be time, and to understand time, we need
mathematics. Without math, we cannot build, invent, or discover new things. We also need
mathematics in our daily living. Math is all around us. Businesses need to make intelligent
guesses or estimates of how much something is going to cost, how many would consume their
products, and how fast their product is going to sell. Also activities like baking cake, decorating
a room, even the clothes that we wear and the foods that we eat uses mathematics. But even
though we use mathematics almost all the time, there are still few who are afraid of it.
I admit that I am one of those who are still afraid of mathematics. Mathematics makes me
feel nervous as always. Since I was a child, I never had fun of solving a math problem, I consider
mathematics as a problem when I was little. I also experienced joining MTAP and math
encampment, but it didn’t help me a lot. My fear of mathematics worsened when I experienced
to be humiliated by my teacher in front of the whole class and I think I had a trauma because of
that. I always remember that moment until now and because of it, I always lose my focus. I also
experienced once when the whole class was taking up a quiz, instead of solving the given
problems in my paper, I only stared at it even though I studied.
Negative emotion around mathematics is not uncommon. Mathematics, more than any
other subject, has the power to test the student’s spirits, and many adults do not move on from
mathematics experiences in school if they are negative. When students get the idea they cannot
do math, they often maintain a negative relationship with mathematics throughout the rest of
their lives.