Stats

Heart racing, head pounding, and a cold sweat dripping down my back. Onset of H1N1? Not at all...That's what happens when I think of anything that has to do with math. To say I suffer from math related anxiety, would be the understatement of the century. I use standard deviations, mean, mode, etc... all the time when I do diagnostic testing on my students. I get that--at least as far as it applies to me and my responsibilities. When you take statistics beyond that, the little voice inside my head starts yelling,"why, why, why, would you want to know that," and I begin to experience all of the aforementioned physical reactions. In addition to math(as though that weren't bad enough) this course includes quizzes/tests, cleverly disguised as benchmarks. Maybe they aren't so cleverly disguised, since I realized it immediately and broke out into hives. Needless to say this course will be the most challenging for me, but in the end I hope to have gained the skills I will need to use my data from classroom research and complete my research project.