Personal Narrative: My Daily Math Journey
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting” ~Gottfried Leibniz
I am thrown into consciousness. My eyes slowly open and begin to scan the room. It’s still dark so I am distinctly aware that I haven’t overslept. I can’t yet seem to bring the images on the alarm clock into focus and I’m not sure I really want to know. Thoughts about how many more minutes I have left to slumber until the piercing sound of the alarm clock awakens me flood my mind. My daily math journey begins.
I never truly realized how much math I use on daily until I was forced to confront it. As I have come to realize, mathematics is so much more than what time it is or how many minutes I have until my twelve year old daughter must leave the house so she isn’t late for the bus. The daily count down has become routine. You have fifteen more minutes, now ten, now five, as I rattle the car keys in my hand. “Let’s go!” I exclaim as I glance at the kitchen clock. To be fair, she has only missed the bus twice this year, however, that extra thirty minute drive (each way) for me to bring her to school is not something to take lightly. After all, this year is the very first year that I have actually had one entire hour to myself before leaving for work in the morning. Now, that may not
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