Merinmol Prasad

I want students to see how powerful maths can be and I want them to experience success in maths, but it seems years of boring lessons or repeated failure have resulted in these students dreading the maths classroom, not caring about their work and using the lesson as a social catch up time. I wish I could change these students’ opinions with exciting maths and problem solving.

On the other hand there are classes that I can’t wait to get in and teach! The classes that laugh at a maths joke, race to check their answers against mine, hoping to outdo me- those lessons I love and look forward to! The students hang off every word you say, they are capable of having a debate about which method is better, they get excited when you go off on a tangent to talk about rational and irrational numbers.