Why do we hate math? Math has never been good to us. Alex says that in seventh grade she had a creepy math teacher who gave girls his Myspace and was a very bad teacher. She slept often in his class and didn't get much out of it. Graham just never quite got on the bandwagon; even in elementary school he struggled to remain in honors classes and do well. He wasn't used to working hard on anything and because math didn't come naturally to him, he disliked it. He's been spreading the hate ever since. Since Alex got to Booker T Washington, she's noticed a difference in the teachers. She likes them much better than the ones in middle school, but says she struggled with geometry nonetheless. Graham is new to the school; he can say, however, that his math teacher, Mrs. Jalilvand is approaching the class in a fresh direction and, for perhaps the first time, Graham is not yet feeling overwhelmed in math. He liked Algebra I better than Geometry anyhow, so maybe the simple jump to Algebra II will make his experience more enjoyable.
by Graham Dudley and Alex Pucciarelli
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