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My Personal Experiences With Math - Paper

My Personal Experiences With Math

My first experiences with Mathematics began as a young boy when my mother, Dona Martin, taught me to count from one to ten. I began counting fingers then toes until ten was a distant accomplishment and larger numbers were becoming my perspectives. It seemed learning to count and use numbers was easier for me than learning how to read and write. With those two subjects I have struggled all my life but math just came to me. Math was the only subject in elementary school that I could really apply myself to and find some sense of achievement. My early interest in math is the one thing that has stuck with me throughout my educational background and has laid the foundation toward my ...

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grindstone. Looking back at those days and being where I am now in my life, striving to become this great mathematician, I can say I have done an enormous 360°.
Through my high school career there was one person that really inspired me and gave me this drive that has gotten me here in college today. Everyone else writing this paper is probably saying it was there favorite math teacher or a caring parent but mine was the non-obvious. It was my head football coach. He, Coach Whisman, coached me for four years. He illustrated to me that math can be essential in something other than a book or an equation. Besides being my football coach he was my high school math teacher. He could take a math problem and apply it to something used in everyday life. He made math enjoyable especially when he intertwined it with something to do with football which was one thing that had become very important to me.
Being an assistant football coach at the local high school these days I have ...

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Added: 6/20/2008 01:54:59 PM
Category: English
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