Reflection on Battleground Schools

I was surprised that this has been a worldwide problem –“non-mathematics specialists (gym teachers, science teachers and others) teach the majority of mathematics to lower grades”. I remember when I was in Grade 8, I didn’t like math just because of my teacher. She was an English teacher and she had to teach math just to fill up the hours in her time table. It was a nightmare as she was really strict and she was just the way the author described in the “Battleground schools”. She was assigning homework problems straight out of the textbook” and we had to learn the formulas without knowing how it was derived.

Mathematics is a challenging subject and it is used in everyday life. We should develop new ways by using technology, puzzles, quizzes, math fairs and field trips rather than using the traditional method of math teaching. Even though I was taught in the traditional way in Mauritius, I will try my best to use different technics since I learnt a lot from the education course. I just hope that it won’t be a huge problem when the new curriculum will come out as during the New math program as “many teachers could not understand why new ways were being introduced.”