Sheila Tobias

“There is a difference between Not knowing and not knowing YET” ~ Sheila Tobias. This quote gives you the idea that, as long as you try and keep working at whatever it is you want to know you can’t give up. This quote was written in relation to math, meaning that it implies to the way people learn math. When learning math lots of people struggle. We feel as though if the knowledge isn’t there the first time we don’t understand it and we never will. As said by Shelia tobias in her own opinion “.....Also math, in particular, is taught in the lower grades in a timed environment. With the clock ticking the minutes away, it is especially hard to concentrate and to open one's mind to the nuances of a problem. It is possible to teach the precision of mathematics and science by going from answers to questions (rather than just questions to answers), which rewards students who have divergent, imaginative approaches. A third reason these subjects are hard is that they are "vertical." If you miss something early, you feel lost and unable to fill in the gap.

That there set me back a few notches already so, I already set my mind on failure. When I first start the course I set up in my head that if I pay attention and take notes It can’t be that hard right?. Although I follow all my rules I do something wrong and when I try again it’s the same results. Like most kids in school, I give up. I no longer want to try, I feel like no matter how hard I try to perfect it or do it right It just won’t work, I don’t know how to do it. I need actual time and even then I still am lost. That saying when children have enough have time to learn they catch on, you can’t leave it upon them to pick up the next day when they didn't understand it the first