Monday, March 30, 2015

Tutor for the Future

by :  Aldrin Escobal

Mathematics is  all around us. From going to school, buying foods and etc., we use mathematics. But even though we use it every day some people find difficult in this matter. In school, according to some students mathematics is a nightmare for them. Some students taking course that doesn’t have math at all because for them number is their enemy. That’s why taking up a course in the field of mathematics is a challenging one.


When we are in first year in college those who are majoring in mathematics find it easy but when we are in our sophomore year we realize that our knowledge in math is just a dirty part of our fingernail compare to the whole anatomy of mathematics. When we encounter problem solving every moment seems to be dreadful. Only few of my classmates understand this matter that’s why Peer tutoring was implemented in Sets of Students Majoring Mathematics. Peer teaching is a method by which one student instructs another student in material on which the first is an expert and the second is a novice. It was done only once.

The goal of Peer tutoring is to help other classmates to understand the lesson clearly but even though we implement this activity still in our final exam we find the word problem difficult. Thus still we are hoping that we will still implement this program for us to help also other classmates to cope up with the lesson but the question is what if also the tutor doesn’t understand the lesson? How he/she can teach other classmates if  she/he doesn’t understand the topic? As quoted, “you cannot give what you don’t have”. But I believe that peer tutoring still help us to understand the lesson and it will also help to build camaraderie in our journey.

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