Date of Completion
Spring 4-20-2016
Campus Location
Marietta
Document Type
Capstone
Chair
Laura Palmer, PhD.
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Kami Anderson, PhD.
Faculty Advisor
Kim Haimes-Korn PhD.
Faculty Representative
Kim Haimes-Korn PhD.
Abstract
As a student I had always struggled hopelessly with math. I noticed many of my classmates and associates outside of school shared similar experiences with this subject. However, a unique convergence of fortuitous circumstances shed some much needed light on my difficulties with math. Using a creative and communicative approach, I was able to analyze my experience from a rhetorical perspective, which allowed me to see more clearly, not just the problem I was having with math, but the overall problems many seem to have with math education. My findings were astonishing and became the subject of my research for my honors college capstone thesis.