My Early Mathematics Education

Since about grade 2 when me and a fellow student were put ahead to do grade 2 and 3 mathematics I felt that I had a special ability to underrstand the mathematical relationships we were studying. However soon after this we seemed to get lost in the crowd as it  were and we were doing the same material aseveryone else for the next 8 years. A number of my teachers used me as an inclass tutor but there was never any real challenge anymore. Most of my high school mathematics was of the traditional set and get nature and again was no real fun or challenge. The real problem for me was to realize that I was actually teaching in the same manner for the few years of my teaching career and soon realized that this was very ineffective with the learners I was involved with.