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College Admissions Essay

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ANTHONY MENESES PASION
Lecturer, University of the Philippines Baguio

One of my educational aspirations is to acquire a graduate degree in mathematics that would improve my career in the field of teaching mathematics. Although I plan on ultimately working as an academic, I also want to do mathematics research that focuses on the progressing fields of mathematics such as mathematical modeling and analysis of dynamical systems. My career vision is to one day be able to provide quality mathematics education to college students in the Philippines while actively partaking in mathematics research. At this point, however, I am certain that this vision will not come to light without me achieving a graduate degree in mathematics. I earned my Bachelor …show more content…

I was able to gain substantial experience in teaching during my undergraduate years. From 2011-2014, I was a peer mentor of the Learning Resource Center, the tutorial arm of UP Baguio. As a peer mentor, I provided learning assistance and instructional support in basic mathematics courses to my fellow undergraduate students. Tutoring in LRC made me realize that the important thing in teaching mathematics to a student is to find out where his uneasiness in math began. Often, this meant going back to the basic concepts such as fractions, integers and using letters to denote numbers. I would spend a lot of time getting the student to master these basic concepts since once he missed out on one these foundations in math, the rest of it would not make sense anymore. As the basic concepts start becoming clear to the student, I observed that teaching the lessons at hand progressed smoothly. Furthermore, as a tutor, I was able to develop my flexibility to adapt with the different needs of my tutees. I always see to it that I impart to them different techniques or methods in solving specific mathematical problems since everyone comes to understands math concepts in a slightly different way. To sum it up, being a peer mentor in LRC had been a valuable experience which helped me improve my teaching

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