As a girl known as owning mathematically talented, no one would believe mathematics was the most disgusting subject for me. When I was still a grade one girl of elementary school, my mom signed up my first math club. Only did I step into that classroom, I had realized this is the start of my nightmare. My aptitude of math was noticed soon, I was told to study harder and to be prepared taking math competitions. In the following years, what I remembered are hundreds and thousands of math problems, the proudly smile on my mom’s face, the praise from math teachers and I won’t forget the jealous faces of boys as well. However, I seemed to have everything besides the happiness of learning Math.
Things were changed after I got the report card of my first year in Middle School; never will I forget the score of my final math exam, which is 68. How can a girl who was the champion of national math rivalries barely passed final math exam? This made me hate math even worse. The score shocked not only me, but my math teacher as well. After knowing my attitude towards math, he was not stunned, instead of blaming me, he advised me “You should not squander your born mathematically gift, how amazing you have done implied your hard work. Nevertheless, you never do math with an appreciative heart; you regard math as a duty. Keep you doing math in this way, math will become your burden eventually, as a result, your math grade will continue going down.”
After considering his words seriously, I began to learn math with my heart. My dedication paid off. I initiated to notice the beauty of math; the joy of solving math problems push me to try the more difficult one. Suddenly, I became conscious that I fell in love with it. Nor did I believe my attitude turns completely. Meanwhile, I took part in math contests one after another; math became part of my life. I was the top student even in my special high school class which selected talented students to be trained for competitions of math and science. No matter in China or the US, I stopped doing research of math by no means. No one could change the fact that math has been the deepest love of mine.
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