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Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin

2013, 1-

Juan B. ©

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Why soccer should replace maths

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Fellow students, I stand here at this place, at this day, and at this hour. Dear friends, how many math tests have you failed? How much time have you spent doing math homework, that you could have spent with meeting friends and playing on your gaming console? And how often did you have detention because of not understanding math class and instead talking to your friends? Well, I can tell you this is not your fault, math is taught in ways that just cant be fun, even if you work hard, you will fail. Math is there for you to fail and not to succeed. But for what do we need math? Trigonometry, algebra, etc. when has anyone ever used that, and for what. No one would say “let us take a picture of a rectangular house and find the area of it, or cut it up into triangles and find the different angles and bearings.” Did you ever get embarrassed in front of your whole class because you didn’t know the answer? It happened to me a thousand times.

But we as a group can change that. If we will have soccer instead everyone would be more active, less obesity, and the most important, we would have fun. Also every month there will be a quiz about soccer and its surroundings. The clever and not so clever people could be made equal through this. In soccer you have to use your mind as well. For example when taking a free kick the person has to think about the air how strong it is, where he will aim, what power he needs to put into the kick. Also after games everyone could write a little about who was the best player, who made the most improvements and who could still improve their skills.

At the end of the year awards will be given out to the top three best players, to the best improver, and to the most valuable player. These awards would give people ambition to achieve the awards. Team spirit will be needed, which means people will get to know each other better, so they know more about each other and what the other people like to do. The school will provide Nike and Adidas shoes for free and also the shirts, shorts and shin savers. This works because Nike and Adidas sponsors us, and on our school logo there will be a Nike and Adidas logo. Also the five best players in our school will be aloud in a Nike or Adidas advertisement with big stars like Ronaldo, Bale and Messi. And they get paid. The math teachers will be the future referees, because they are good at measuring angles and distance with distance= velocity x time. The English teachers will be the game commentators because they are good at talking using emotive words to bind the watchers to the game. Also there will be costs for watching the games. In my old school math was the main subject. We had math tests every day! I don’t believe that you would go there without wanting to be a mathematician. For one or two weeks I could understand the teachers but after that I just got mad, I talked to my friends and asked them if they can help me persuade the teacher that it’s a stupid learning technique, but they left me alone.

I am happy that I have friends like you and not like in my old school so I am sure you as a community can change this school. I also heard the director talk to the math teachers about more homework and harder tests, plus harder grading. I don’t believe anyone wants this, but we as a community can change this! Or do you want to have harder homework, harder tests and harder grading? 67% of the school play soccer, either at a club, or just for fun! What if we were to be the sportiest international school in the whole world? Probably everyone would look up to us, but if we were the best math school everyone would laugh at us because that is life. We will fight for this change, we will take risks for this change and most importantly we will become a community through this change! If we achieve this, we can be proud of ourselves. But one thing is for sure, this change will not happen without you.




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