Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Math Class

Starting out in 6th grade I was not a big fan of math. I actually thought that I wasn’t very good at math and I didn’t try all that hard in it. Once my teacher actually started to teach us in my math class I still thought it was very hard. My teacher gave lots of notes and I didn’t take them copiously. I didn’t really take my notes because I thought it wouldn't be important for me to learn. After my teacher showed the notes, she handed out class work and I didn’t know how to do it. I got help from my friend but I didn’t learn because they did all the work for me. Then my teacher sent me home with homework one night and I tried to do it without the help of my friend and I tried my hardest but when we got to school and reviewed the homework I didn’t do very good on it. After a few weeks I took my first
When I looked at it I noticed my math grade first and I was barely passing and I was happy about that. I brought the report card home to my mom and she wasn’t as happy as I was about it. She sat me down and talked with me about my math grade. The things that she talked to me about changed my entire attitude about math and school in general for the second semester. I walked into the school after the break with a smile on my face waiting for my math class. When I got to the class I actually payed attention and took thorough notes and I got my friend’s notes from the last semester to copy them. When my teacher had finished giving notes she of course gave out class work like she normally did and I actually finished it with ease and got a grade of one hundred on it. I was very happy with this and it encouraged me to go home and study every night so I could do good on tests as well. After about a week I took a test over what I had been learning and I did very good on it and it made me feel so good about myself. As a few more months of school passed by, my math standardized test came