{"id":208568,"date":"2024-10-14T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=208568"},"modified":"2024-10-14T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:55:40","slug":"student-spotlight-overcoming-mathematical-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2024\/10\/14\/student-spotlight-overcoming-mathematical-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Overcoming Mathematical Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have hated math my entire life and always thought I just didn\u2019t have the \u201cmind for math.\u201d I was told this by some teachers (in not so many words) and always felt very self-conscious about doing math in any capacity. Coming to MSU, and beginning math again was terrifying<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately, Alison has had a transformative experience at MSU. In MTHM 201, Alison stated that \u201cI had a fantastic professor for 201, Frank Forte. The willingness to break down the math into steps for us was so crucial for me.\u201d Then she took the MTHM 302 course with Dr. DiNapoli who she described as \u201cone of the best Professors at MSU for math\u201d and began to see the joy in problem solving, by \u201cwondering the answer\u201d and being \u201cexcited to sort it out myself.\u201d Ultimately, Alison said she feels \u201cmotivated to learn the math\u201d and perhaps more importantly, she \u201cfeels comfortable teaching math in my future because of my experiences with these professors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Colucci, an elementary education major, expressed a deep dislike for math prior to arriving at Montclair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":208569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-experiences","category-students-and-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568","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=208568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208571,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208568\/revisions\/208571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}