Blog Post 9
When I think about my Math class experience in high school, I don’t remember anything ever good about it. I didn’t find most of the material we are forced to retain relevant to what I wanted to do. When I got into math 101 the only thing I knew from high school was algebra. My math teacher always made comments about how band wasn’t important and I should “work on math” instead of practicing for either university audition, or honour band/NYB audition. Math was always more “important” but looking back now, it was so irrelevant and is still currently irrelevant. The only good memory I have with numbers is when I took an online physical Science class, my teacher took interest in the fact that I was very passionate about music and helped me understand some of the material by relating it to music theory. I absolutely loved that class and wanted to take Chemistry as a minor, but decided not too when I got here.
I enjoyed reading Poirier’s article because it is challenging math being a universal language. It is showing that there are different approaches to math and different ways to think about it. I always struggled with math and seeing that there is other ways to understand it and other ways to visualize it is very interesting.
Hello Robyn,
I like that you bring up the fact that your teacher was pushing you to avoid the classes that you enjoyed for classes that they thought were ‘more important’ like math. It definately is an example of how the hidden curriculum has put classes like Maths Sciences and Language courses above the arts. I am glad that you had a better time in your Science class, and related it to your interests with music and music theory.