I love math.
It’s hard to explain to people why I like math. To me, math is fun and interesting. Some people don’t get why I enjoy learning new math concepts, but that’s okay because I don’t get why some people like writing history papers…
I realized my love for math in the second grade after I moved on to division when the rest of the class was still figuring out division. Since then, my appreciation for math has only grown. Until the summer before my senior year of high school, I guess I saw math as a formula or even a puzzle, and I couldn’t quite give an answer past that for enjoying it. That summer, my soon-to-be AP calculus teacher gave us a summer reading assignment. (Yeah, whatever, we had to read a book for a math class.) That book was Is God a Mathematician? Of course, my first reaction was “Well, yeah!”, but honestly, I hadn’t really thought about what place math has in God’s creation. It was just a subject in school that I happened to like and be good at.
I learned so much from that book, and though it didn’t really take a side (I went to public school after all) it 100% left me in awe at our Creator. Math is beautiful. Math is not some man-made school subject. Math is a creation of God, and you can see it in nature. Consider the Fibonacci Sequence (or maybe you’ve heard it as the Golden Ratio in art class). This sunflower, along with many other things in nature, contain this ratio as you can see in the spiral of its center.
I get that some people don’t enjoy math and don’t want to learn the subject in-depth. Everyone has their own preferences in life. I happen to love math… more than that, I have a passion for it. I want others to love it and to want to learn more about it. It’s so much more than tests; learning in general is so much more than tests. I want more people to have an appreciation for mathematics and what it is in life. It can be hard, but it really is beautiful to learn the full picture of mathematics. And that’s why I look forward to teaching it.
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