Why I Want To Become A Math Teacher?

Unlike most people who have wanted to be teachers since they were young, that was not always the case for me. Growing up, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer seeing as to how I had an older sister that always had to be right. During my junior year of high school I took AP Psychology, loved it and decided that I would be a psychologist, until my guidance counselor told me that that was a bad idea during my senior meeting. After that meeting I decided to reconsider psychology and figure out what I should be when I was older, and that’s when it clicked. I have always loved working with kids, from my apprenticeship at a daycare, to cannon ball contests with the kids as a lifeguard, and even helping out with my old cheer team when I was in high school. Additionally, I was always good at math, thanks to my math teacher grandpa that would send me math problems to do for fun in elementary school. The summer going into my senior year of high

In my opinion, it takes a compassionate person with an abundance of patience to be a good secondary math teacher. This is especially important with a topic like math, which is something that most students struggle with. It is important as a secondary math teacher to understand those frustrations that students have and use that to better yourself. Providing students with multiple examples as well as solving problems in more than one way are a couple of methods to accomplish this. By solving problems in multiple ways, it does not restrict students and can alleviate their frustrations since they have the potential to better understand solving the problem at hand. A good math teacher will understand the frustrations that their students may have and will be willing to offer assistance and should never discourage their