frustration
Today I spent two hours trying to teach Julie (a different one) the concept of decimal places. I used drawings, stories, marbles, numbers, water bottles, etc., but failed. Frustration. I almost lost my patience and yelled at the kid: "Don't you get it, for the 50th time..."
What the hell are these kids learning in school?
Lizette, Tamara, Mr. Beder, Evan, how do you do it?
posted by Carlos at 11:07 PM
1 Comments:
Good suggestion PJ.
Teaching is creative that way... having to figure out what is the best way to communicate something is hard but can be rewarding if you succeed.
Math is awesome and it is only now that I'm beginning to see it's beauty. As a student, I got a D in Calc and barely made it out of algabra and trigonometry...
A huge portion of the adolescents are simply ashamed to not understand and withdraw from math... one of my objectives will be to turn that trend around.
Suggestions like yours, connecting math concepts to the real world are sorely needed.
Cheers and keep posting!
C
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