I have been working as a mathematics teacher at a high school in the Netherlands for the past 5 years. I love my job and I also love math. What?! You love math??? That’s probably one of many thoughts that came across your mind as you read this. Yes, I love math and I will tell you why.
It is one of the few subjects that has been studied since the beginning of time, so a lot of what we know about math has not been new information. Math has been incorporated in our daily lives as well as nature itself. We often do not realize that we are surrounded by a beautiful word of mathematical phenomena. Last but not least, mathematical skills can be learned in order to be able to recognize mathematical patrons and systems. Therefore, this means that anyone can do math!
You might think; “that is easy for you to say”. Well maybe you are right or maybe you have not been able to use the right skillset. Thus, I want to share some tips with you that will help you, your child or your student to understand and enjoy math in a clearer and easier way.
There is a clock hanging in the living room, so what? What I am interested in is the shape of this clock and if it has any special attributes. After gathering some information about a dodecagon, which is a figure with sides of the same lengths and internal angles of the size, now we can answer the question. Knowing that the minute hand goes all around the clock when one hour has passed, tells us that it has turned 360 degrees.
So let’s get rid of all the mystery and let’s do math!
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My name is Abigail Ampomah. I live in a city called Dordrecht in the Netherlands. I studied Psychology and Neuroscience at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Mathematics in Tilburg. I love God and have a passion in teaching and sharing knowledge.