Learning mathematics has always been a difficult

challenge for me to overcome in my academic endeavor.

Analyzing and processing various numbers, equations
and concepts were constantly being tasked to us as it is
one of the fundamental knowledge that an individual
must to possess in order to understand quantitative
informations in our everyday world. .But for me
personally, I perceive math as one of my deadliest and
intimadating subjects in the midst of my educational
years. There are a lot of circumstances where I suffered,
depressed and lost my confidence as a learner due to my
tediousness in this field. There are always those moments
where I became more pessimistic and lethargic whenever
I thought or heard the word "Math" for the very reason
that I always got failed grades to this subject during my
elementary days. But after entereng high school, a
sudden impulse got strucked me to study math once
again and it is where I saw some major changes and
began to change my perspective towards this. It was an
unexpected happening where I considered and realized
its softer side as I witnessed the interesting aspect of
Mathematics.

In this part, I will be reminiscing those events and my

experiences about mathematics in a more detailed and
specific way of telling. Considering my bad background in
mathematics throughout my ""elementary days", let's
take a big leap of time. From my 7th grade to 8th grade in
high school, my negativity and lack of interest in this
subject still engraves to me until I began my 9th grade
where those unforeseen changes and developments
occured to me. During my 9th grade, I met a very strict
and rigorous math teacher wherein she deliberately
monitors our performance in her class every single day. I
was very pressured at that time since because she
always reprimand those who cannot meet her
expectations and standards like not regularly
participating in class or failing at her tests just even once.
But my main concern about this math teacher was that
she doesn't always discussed her topics elaborately and
sometimes she just gave us unexpected seat works
without knowing us of what the test is all about. Thus, it
suddenly came to my mind of indulging self-study at
home. I know that since elementary, math is my weakest
subject but this time, I poured a lot of time, effort and
endurance in studying math. At first it was so very
difficult because studying on my own means that I have
to analyze math problems without getting any help from
others. So instead on being fixated and limited on books,
I tried to look for tutorial videos about the techniques in
problem-solving since at that time, the level of
complexity of mathematics was much greater where we it
already involves the deeper part of algebra and geometry
. Surprisingly, the way that the internet taught math to
me are more easy to understand and the
processes/methods of solving are more convenient to
use. As a result, I started to enjoy math and used the
informations that I've acquired from tuturial videos during
our math lessons and simultaneously, my progress in this
field started to flourished and prospered. At the end of my
9th grade, I was considered as one of the most proficient
in mathematics in my class and was astounded by this
great accomplishment that I had achieved. I continued
this learning strategy until 12th grade where I
continuously gained good remarks amd decent grades in
the math subject. And after graduating high school, I
started to questiomed myself of what profession I will
take in College. But the first thing that came into my
mind is - EDUCATION. My desire to teach math to others
evoked me to choose this course where I want to major in
Mathematics for the rationale that I want also to make my
future students realized that the Math is not really a
difficult nor an ardous subject to begin with, it just only
needs constant practice in solving math problems and
discovering the learning straregy that are most suitable
and convenient to them because through optimism and
hard work, we can definitely achieved our objectives and
surpass our own limits.

Currently, I am now a freshman at University of

Eastern Philippines taking the Bachelor of Science in
Education Major in Mathematics. I am still in the process
of holistic learning where there are still a plethora of
knowledge that I must absorb and adapt specifically in
my specialization which is Math. I don't know what path
lies ahead of me but I must always take the courage and
determination to face any odds or difficulties that I may
encounter because I strongly believe that pursuing my
aspirations will always be possible as long as I embrace
and appreciate Mathematics