1. My previous mathematics experience include doing IGCSE Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, and doing math classes in three schools with an American system up to Grade 9. I also did summer classes for trigonometry and geometry in Grade 6-8.
2. I don’t hate math, but I don’t love it either. It’s nice when I manage to get a problem correct or understand a concept and manage to apply it correctly, but (especially as concepts get harder) it’s frustrating when I don’t manage to understand it entirely or fail to use it to solve a problem.
I thought I was in Math Analysis, so that’s the subject I studied for over the summer. So I was surprised when I saw that I was in Applications. However, I’m just going to not switch. Math Analysis is more fitting to my thinking process, but I won’t find Applications that much more difficult.
3. I like to have an experienced person explain new concepts to me first before allowing me to try to solve problems by myself. Then, if I find myself having trouble, I like it when someone who is smarter than me to show me where I went wrong and why.
4. I like visual representations, but not in graph form. Graphs are hard to read. I also sometimes need to listen to an explanation multiple times before it clicks, or I might need time to find the right way to phrase what I’m not getting.
5. Strengths: persistent and inquisitive. Area of Focus: Flexibility and Communication
6. Word limit has been surpassed at this point, so no.
