I Can Do All Things Through Christ, Including Algebra: Spiritual Warfare Strategies for Decreasing Mathematics Anxiety

By Linda S Hatch

Do you or your children struggle in Algebra
classes? Would you like to know how to
break this cycle so that you and your children
can go on to fulfill God’s purposes for your life?
The enemy has used fear and anxiety to convince
people that they cannot do Algebra or any type
of mathematics, for that matt

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Jul 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781640882324

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my husband, Terry Hatch, the quarterback of Team Hatch! I would also like to thank my family and friends who gave me the anointed words to get on the ball and finish this book!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to acknowledge Trilogy Publishing and TBN for allowing Christian authors a voice in the Christian publishing arena. I would also like to acknowledge Mark Mingle, with Trilogy Publishing, who accepted my proposal and pushed for me to be a published author. I would also like to thank my family, especially my husband, who together push me when I want to stop. Thank you to my ministers, Pastors Michael and Sharonda McField, who gave me words of knowledge regarding becoming an author! I would not have stepped out without you! Thank you to my sisters from other mothers, Shenikka Felder and Angela Manyfield, who are ministers in their own right. Thank you to Bishop Walter Smith, who pushed me to purpose. I’m sure that you are smiling in heaven. Thank you to Apostle Clayton Bullock who continues to push people to reach their purpose. Thanks also to my church families: Watson Grove Baptist Church, Tylertown First Baptist Church, and Mount Heroden Missionary Baptist Church. A special thank you to my parents Willard and Alma Tyler, who made me change my major! I would not have been a math major without them obeying the unction of the Holy Spirit! I know that you are in heaven smiling!

INTRODUCTION

Whenever I tell people I am a math educator, I usually get one of two reactions. The first reaction is Oh, I hated math in school!

I had a horrible math teacher who constantly made me feel dumb!

I cannot do math! I must have a calculator to do even simple calculations!

Oh, algebra and I did not click at all; why must there be letters with numbers!?

I could continue with more reactions in this vein, but you get the picture. I always found these statements unsettling, as I have spent my adulthood in the math education arena. I appreciate the transparency of the speakers of these statements, and I do not take it lightly when a person reveals such a personal struggle.

But herein lies the rub:

People go to great lengths to conceal the fact that they cannot read fluently or struggle with reading comprehension. Stories abound of adults who spent their entire working life fearing that their secret would be revealed:

They cannot read.

As educators, we utilize extensive instructional strategies to avoid embarrassing a struggling reader. We do not call out such students because of the implications involved for the student. Gone are the days of the labeled readers. You know, the red robins, the blue birds, etc., that let you know the reading levels of students.

However, struggling to learn math is not treated with the same level of embarrassment. People freely state that they have struggled to learn math. Some will flat out say that they cannot learn the subject.

I would be willing to bet that you would not find one person, who is willing to openly state that they struggle with reading. No, not one. Literacy encompasses quantitative literacy as well.

We have just lived through the worst economic collapse since the depression of the 30s. It was caused by people simply not doing the math involved in meeting a mortgage payment and bankers overlooking this fact and ignoring long-held ratios regarding debt and income. My parents always told me to live beneath my means. If you do not have the money to make the mortgage payment comfortably, then you are overextended. Figuring this out did not take a lot of complex math but just simple addition and subtraction. People were hopeful, but not realistic.

It is a matter of having numeracy skills just as we have literacy skills. Both are a part of overall literacy.

Math and I had a complicated relationship throughout my years from