Spanish native, in process to be a university professor. Winner in Literature National Contest. Experience in Teaching math

I won a National Literature Contest for writing a short fictional story in Bolivia. Main Language: Spanish. Due my love for the grammar structure and ortography, I was able to participate in this contest.

During university, I was very good at teaching calculus I and Calculus II with my classmates; this allowed the high school director of Colegio de La Sierra to propose to me to be an Assistant Mathematics Teacher for two months.

I was moved by the opportunity they gave me since the focus of the course was to help children between the ages of 13 and 15 with bad grades improve their performance.

I prepared a course with critical analysis pedagogy resources. Some of the activities that I implemented were:

1. Find where mathematics could be applied and how.
2. Question what it means to be intelligent, getting them to conclude that it is "The ability that a person has to solve a problem."
3. Implement the idea that there are different types of intelligence, and mathematics teaches many ways to solve a problem.
4. Explain trigonometry by looking for the angles in the school arena.

The most fun and motivating activity for the children was the following:

Teach algebraic cases using the video game metaphor preferred by the class: "Teken."

The objective of the game is to face two characters in a fight, so I replaced the letters of the equations with the symbols of the buttons on the video game console, explaining to the children that a console, through mathematical algorithms ( algebraic operations in our metaphor), determines which of the characters wins.

This helped them to be motivated to discover who was the player who won the match, learning the algebraic rules.

In those two months, I managed to get 80% of the children to improve their grades, to learn to investigate, and most importantly, they stopped feeling that they were not intelligent because they did not have good grades; on the contrary, they had to find a way to learn with their different capacities and qualities.