Me and My Math (FRACTIONS)

Before I was home-schooled, mathematics has always been a mind-bugging and nose-bleeding subject. It was not until one morning during our semester break 6 years ago when my father gave me and my siblings a focus on the basic math operations and some simple fractions that my interest on this topic sprang out of the blue. After that semester where the days my brother, younger sister and I started to excel more in mathematics. But things didn't end with that, there were lots more to be learned.

When our parents decided to homeschool the 5 of us, the first thing they focused on teaching us was MATH! Our father taught us how to draw a borderline. He was very specific about the measurements of one line from the other. He would leave for the office every morning leaving with our Mother and Auntie our assignments for the day. And when he arrives home at night, the first thing he asked us was, "How was you borderline assignment?". This went on for months for neither among the 5 of us could make it perfectly.

After some time, we, the Arsad siblings thought our days of hard math were gone. Our parents had changed the math topic on focus by then. But we were only greeted by an actually much more complicated topic... FRACTIONS!

Knowing our Dad has already taught us about it, we thought things would go on smoothly. But things did not turn out quite well with the way we ought it would. Our parents gave us a higher level of fractions.

Everyday, we would do our 10 items quiz of fractions before we start reading and answering our recommended books.

14 1/5 + 18 6/9 = ?, those things appeared like hieroglyphics on the blackboard. It was like solving and unlocking another mystery inside the Egyptian Pyramids... It took us almost 2 years to master the rules and ways of the mysterious Fractions before we got to move on...

After "quite" some time, those hieroglyphics started to turn into ABCD's... But we still got confused at times...
I'd say we should always practice our math skills regularly as not to forget them... Just like practising how to read the Egyptian symbols regularly as not to get confused with them..

Wassalam...