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March Math Journal: Exponential & Logarithmic Functions

Zoe Morales Torres reflects on her struggles with math in March, particularly with exponential and logarithmic functions. Despite initially feeling lost, she found some understanding in rewriting functions but struggled with graph-related exercises. She acknowledges her declining grades and empty notebook, expressing a desire to improve and recognizing the supportive environment in her class.

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March Math Journal: Exponential & Logarithmic Functions

Zoe Morales Torres reflects on her struggles with math in March, particularly with exponential and logarithmic functions. Despite initially feeling lost, she found some understanding in rewriting functions but struggled with graph-related exercises. She acknowledges her declining grades and empty notebook, expressing a desire to improve and recognizing the supportive environment in her class.

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Zoe Morales Torres​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ April 2, 2025

March Math Journal​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Ms. Ramos

After taking the disastrous exam back in February, it was time to move on with other topics in
the new month of March. We began to discuss “exponential functions” in the first days. Some of
it seemed vaguely familiar to me but it was complicated even so. There were many examples and
different things in the presentation, and I found myself a bit lost. I managed to get the grasp of
things, but others, mostly not. However, I was somewhat confident that I would at least be able to
do something when the time came to practice by ourselves. Disappointingly, that was not the
case. The exercises looked simple, but tangled at the same time , and I never made the effort to
even try and understand them, or anything we were doing for that matter. Somewhere in the
middle of March, our past tests had been graded, and they were ready for us to see. I already
knew I had done horribly, so I was not shocked by my scores, but they had been the worst I had
gotten in a long, long time. Four out of 57 was the score. Despite this, I was mostly unbothered
and decided to focus more on the current topic. That is where “logarithmic functions” come in. It
was certainly easier than whatever we were doing in the past days. Still, nothing is sticking to
me. It is a bit pathetic, but the only thing I really understood was incredibly easy, rewriting
functions from exponential to logarithmic and vice versa. These exercises were very simple so I
caught them quite quickly, and in that process I began to see that maybe the other things were
doable as well. We had some practice on this, but then moved on to other exercises of the same
topic, which required graphs. This meant that my time of understanding was over and I was
completely lost again. I have to admit this past semester has not gone very good for me in math.
It does pain me to see my grade dropping and my notebook full of empty spaces, however I know
that this behaviour does not represent the student I am under normal circumstances. In my four
years in this school, this class has always been the most challenging and not the most fun, but I
can at least say that there has always been help available and it has always felt like an open space
where questions and doubts are not condoned.

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