Math autobiography template
Math autobiography activity
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Math Autobiographies
Kent Haines
“Dear Math:
I hate you.”
This year, I did the best getting-to-know-you activity I’ve ever done.
I had my students write math autobiographies, telling me their personal history with math, warts and all. And two days into school, I know more about my students than I knew after 4 weeks last year.
“I used to hate math, but since the problems got more challenging I have started to love it more”
Here’s how I did it: On the very first day of school, I took 5 minutes to introduce the idea of a math autobiography and ask students to brainstorm their own for homework.
Then i read my own, which I’ve reprinted below.
“Math always came easy to me.
I think that’s because as a kid I used to love finding math patterns wherever I went. I would always like playing with shapes, finding out which ones went together and trying to figure out why. I would count the number of stairs in my house and the number of tiles in the ceiling of my element
