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There are three things made me stop and go back to read this article again. The first one is when Skemp mentions the “understanding” problems in Math situation. Skemp brings out the difference between “understand instrumentally” and “understand relationally”. I go back and read the related context again is because I think may understand this situation and really faced before. When I was in high school study, I think there were some similar questions like the example Skemp gives in page 4 which showed up in my math exam. Teacher asked questions about area or volume, but they gave different units. Some of my classmates thought these questions aimed for applying area or volume formula, like for a ball, the Volume V = (4/3)πr³. But they lost some marks in the end, because the real purpose for these questions are not only to test students get the area and volume formula, but also to test if they understand how to change different units into the same one. And these pages in this reading real...

My answers for our four questions: 1. I think I have a wonderful learning experience for math during my secondary studying time. I love my Math teacher always tried to relate Math world with real world. And I also like sometimes she would give us some extra brainstorm questions if we finished our work earlier than other classmates. Those brainstorm questions are very tricky,  but she would give us some hints. And if we can solve these questions by ourselves, we will get awards! Sometimes just candy. But it will also bring me a sense of achievement. 2. Sometimes I got stuck with a specific question, I spent much time on that, but I just cannot solve that one. 3. My high school Math teacher Mrs.H. She really makes every math lesson more fun and less stress for every students. We can learn new things, as the same time, we never lose the interests for learning Math. The process of exploring is always interesting. For example, I remember when we started to learn Geometry, she br...