I am currently enrolled in a class called Structures of Mathematics and it has got to be the weirdest math course I have ever encountered. I’ve come to assume that it is math that we will eventually be expected to teach elementary level children because it is a requirement of elementary education majors AND the title of the course book is Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, BUT someone needs to explain to me how am I supposed to teach kids something that even I don’t understand. My room mate is a physics major and even she doesn’t understand the homework that I have half the time, so every monday and wednesday I sign onto AIM and talk to be close friend who happens to loooove math and apparently has no problem helping me in all my unfortunate glory with my math homework. Thankfully he comes before I have class and checks it for me.

To continue on why I can’t stand this class, I have determined that what she is teaching us in the class is not something that you learn in elementary school unless you are an elementary super genius or apparently that german guy , Grauss. I have no real comprehension behind why I need to know any of this and further more, what elementary school child knows how to solve the equation (n+2)^2… I mean seriously. I don’t get it. I really don’t. Not cool at all.