Analysis Of Not A Math Person By Boaler

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While I was reading the article Not a math person: How to remove obstacles to learning math, it reminded me of our first day of class. When professor asked in a show of hands how many of us like maybe, maybe one or two hands were raised. The rest of us raised ours hands saying that we had a math fear. Which is ironic because here we are getting our masters to teach student. One of the subjects that we have to teach is math. In the article Boaler stated the big problem is math teacher themselves are math traumatized. The best thing that educators should try to change is to remove these fear of math from our minds this way we won't pass them to our students. We can’t believe in the idea that only some of us are math people and some of us