Au Revoir Simone – All You Pretty Things

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Sometimes teaching math really is like teaching a foreign language….in a foreign language, what with all the strange looks I get when students are grappling with the concepts, of y, m, x, and b.

There’s no getting around it. Algebra is hard….and it’s particularly difficult in that it demands a larger conceptual understanding of number patterns that students have been merely computing for the past 8 years of their schooling.

Patterns, guys! Patterns! And don’t let those negative numbers and fractions freak you out!!!

Anyway, we’re on the eve of the last day before Thanksgiving Break and both the students and myself are looking forward to the break very much. It will be nice to sleep in, cook turkey (which I”m doing this year!), and watch football!