Polished Project 3

I wrote a exploratory essay about "Are We Good at Math?" to think if all of us are good at math. I wrote this because I was think about on the "You Can Grow Your Brain" reading response if people are smart or dumb. It doesn't matter if we good at thing or bad at thing, but we learn things along the way.

 Rochelle 1

Laandra Rochell 

Atkins-Gordeeva 

Comp 1 

16 November 2020 

 

Are We Good at Math

 A  lot of people are good at math rather than not good at it at all. People learn differently in solving problems. Some people learn the easy way or the hard way to solve problems like math equation. 

 In my lifetime, I was not good at math when I was small. Because I was a hard learner in math. I thought I wasn’t good at math till middle school after I became basic at math to average. Some of my classmates in math went up a level, go down, or stay in the same place. I was thinking to myself to this question ”Are We Good at Math?” 

 

 My search began with this quiz that our instructor assigned us with a ”Mindset Work” that ask several questions about our intelligence. Because my mindset can hold back a few ideas from taking on the challenges or new things I will have more potential in me. Here is my current mindset is, ” I may still think that achievement should come easily and feel a bit discouraged when I perform poorly at something”. I may feel a little discouraged if I perform in something, but I sourced some intelligence. People may believe their mindset results, but the reality will come out soon or later on in life. 

  

 My next article, which is class read about is ”You Can Grow Your Brain” by Health and Science. It talks about how our brains grow when we learn. The reading describes how our brain will get bigger and stronger like lifting weights. Scientists have learned that juggling a lot is better at math. If people are not good at math then solving equations be a challenge for them. Some people will skip the hard equations and go easy on they alright know the answer. 

  

I found that growing a brain is we learn something new. Our brain is the outside layer is called the cortex, and the tiny nerve with billions of cells called neurons. I think that people solve a different way to solve problems. The truth is everyone is smarter at math if we practice the right way. There is no such thing as smart pants or dummy in math. 

 

 My next article, I have read is ”Even Geniuses Work Hard” by Carol S. Dweck. She is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Students with a growth mindset with challenging work of opportunity to learn and grow. His research has shown with praising students we yield the long-term benefit of telling we are ”smart” will succeed. Our mind tells us a mindset that tells us to show strategies if tried so far. There is some challenges we have like are mind and learning skills.

  

 Dweck did wrote on how the school behavior in the mindset. Teachers use homework for instructional programs are a sense of learning. We solve by learning new ways or stretch to a new level. Math is challenging are a mind for a new level or learning style with the mindset is now the learning style can't be stone. Teachers have praised the learning process with students’ ability in the learning tasks and highlight progress in learning. 

 

 The day after I read Dweck’s article, some of my peers watch three different videos to choose to put in our writing. I watch a video called ”Embrace the Near Win”, TED Talk by Sarah Lewis. I was thinking it will talk about how to win something over likes game or something else. This video talks about Lewis how mastered success. This way she says about her question, what gets us to convert success into mastery? (Lewis). Lewis tells a story about how she watches a set of varsity archer team who are in Columbia’s Baker Athletics Complex. She watches them practice when Lewis saw one girl shot the target. The archer shot a seven, then a nine, and shot two ten. But the archer tries to do a ten again, but she keeps missing. She keep shooting for three hours, until practice the practice was over and she laid in exhaustion. 

 

 In Lewis’s talk that you have to mastery by reaching for it, there don’t arrive in thin. If we want to master math for good in technology or other than that Business with mathematical skills. Mastery is to sacrificing something you have a craft, for not the sake of your career in where you want to be in. We build our careers by sacrificing something we love most of our lives. We continued to finish the unfinished idea in our former self. ”Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.”(Lewis) 

 

 The last final search in my research is the article called Debate Arises Over Teaching ”Growth Mindset” to Motivate Students, by Lydia Denworth. She is a science writer, a contributing editor for Scientific American, and author of Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. She wrote how Dweck talks about the research of how the growth mindset dining to the student. There an quote about how Carol Dweck book Mindset, she wrote, ”They strong affect what we want and whether we succeed in getting it.” (Dweck) The mindset is to helps students with the types of mindset they are in now. Yeager and Dweck’s work on how the online programs led to higher graded levels, for the low-achieving student have a context are critical. Some are likely to fail if a D or F average fell by about eight percent. The addition of ninth-graders who challenging math courses in tenth grade. 

 

 Dweck challenges four hundred fifth-grader with a series of puzzles, some completed the first set of the puzzle they got praised, and others who didn’t complete needed coffienet. A lot of people need to be praised when they need care for a hard time on things. Mindset researchers encounter some research with books and project doing types of study. Yeager is encouraged by the Carnegie project called ”Stateway”, it is the growth mindset instruction to help community college students to pass remedial math courses. 

 

 So to answer my procedural question is are we good at math? Some of us are good at math, while some of us are not good at all. We may be smart at mathematics in class, while some are not at the level of learning harder mathematics. People think that being smart is a special give to us. Do let people think that we are not good enough to be in school we need to be praised. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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”Test Your Mindset.” Mindset Works, 2006, https://blog.mindsetworks.com/what-is-my-mindset. Accessed 21 Oct. 2020 

”You Can Grow Your Brain.” Composition I, Instructor Jennifer Atkins-Gordeeva, Fall 2020, UA-PTC. Handout. 

Denworth, Lydia. ” Debate Arises over Teaching ’Growth Mindsets’ to Motivate Students. Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2019, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-arises-over-teaching-growth-mindsets-to-motivate-students/. Assessed October 26, 2020 

Dweck, Carol. ” Even Geniuses Work Hard.” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek, Norton. 2020. pp. 474-480. 

Lewis, Sarah. ”Embrace the Near Win.” TED, March 2014. https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_lewis_embrace_the_near_win/transcript. Assessed October 26, 2020