{"id":208354,"date":"2024-03-25T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=208354"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:35:18","slug":"student-spotlight-falling-in-love-with-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2024\/03\/25\/student-spotlight-falling-in-love-with-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Falling in love with Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Jessica Church is a <a href=\"\/family-science-and-human-development\/\">Family Science and Human Development<\/a> major in the Education Program with a K-6 focus. This is her account of how she fell out of, and back into, love with mathematics during her time here at Montclair:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I always enjoyed math growing up, but in high school when covid happened I lost my passion for it. Coming to Montclair and taking elementary education required math classes, I fell in love with math all over again. I remembered how much fun it is, and I realized how much my brain missed the challenge and the puzzle that math is. I also realized how much of a difference I can make as a teacher in the future. By teaching math in a fun and interactive way it can make sense to all students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Church was able to rekindle her love of mathematics here at Montclair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-and-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208359,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208354\/revisions\/208359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}