First Post

1. Henry Cardenas
2. Ist Year
3. Intended Latin American Studies major
4. AP Calculus BC (High School)
5. (Worst) My discomfort with numbers
6. (Best) The ability to solve problems when I am familiar with the steps.
7. I am taking this class because I want to get my math requirement out of the way.
8. I hope to leave this class with two things: 1. an open perspective on math and 2. the freedom to say that math isn't that bad.
9. The worst math teacher I ever had was last year in my calc class. She was "old school" so quizzes and 4 tests in the semester made up our grade, and she refused to be lenient. Not only were the tests extremely difficult at times, but sometimes we would have to do long problems in a very short period of time. The quizzes were taken from similar problems we have done for homework and in class, but the tests had problems we've never seen before. We were supposed to "think outside the box," which was kind of difficult when you're stressing about time and the test in general. Yeah, not a good time last year...
10. To be frank, I have had a pretty bad record of math teachers. I'm hoping this year will be different.