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What do they think about maths ?
5 questions that we asked our maths teachers:
1. Have you always liked maths?
2. How have you decided to become a maths teacher?
3. What do you find interesting in your job?
4. Are you happy with your job? If you had a chance to choose your
future job again, would you choose to be a math teacher?
5. Where do we use maths in everyday life?
Mrs Sokol
Mrs Jurišić
1. Yes!
2. It was a piece of cake for me, I was
Yes! Since I was little.
I love working with children and I love
maths so this is the perfect
combination.
New gadgets and technology stuff.
It's hard to work with kids sometimes
but I like my job. It's wonderful to see
kids learning maths.
Different kinds of calculations, when
shopping. You need to know if people
are trying to fool you, ha ha.
always good at it. I wanted to choose
something that I like and I had an idea
how to bring maths closer to kids.
3. It's a great feeling when kids understand
something I was trying to explain to
them. I'm glad when kids find my
classes interesting.
4. I am because of the reasons I've
mentioned in the previous answer. I love
that "aha" I can hear when kids
understand something. It's actually quite
hard to explain something you know so
well.
5. Everywhere pretty much, right? In
shops, bakeries, banks... We use it
when cooking something for calculating
how much we need of a specific
ingredient. A well known use of maths
for students is calculating the average
grade in a certain subject ha ha. Like I
said, basically everywhere. When
buying a house, furnitire... You gotta
know if they're trying to fool you in
shops ha ha.
Students who interviewed the teachers:
Eleonora Galinec, Anastazija Savčukov
and Jan Vidović, 8.b
Miss Jagetić
1. Yes!
2. I've always loved maths and I love
working with kids.
3. It's different every day, it's not
boring. I don't like the idea of working in
front of the computer all day.
4. Something could be better, but I'm
still happy with my job.
5. Math is basically everywhere. You
use it when calculating a lot of different
things. The most obvious use is in
shops, bakeries and such. I know you
probably won't use everything you learn
now later in everyday life but it develops
your brain and that is really important.